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The Bar Room => The Bar (ON-TOPIC) => Topic started by: Escaped Lunatic on January 08, 2011, 12:22:53 AM
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Since some of you want to keep adding things like vegemite aaaaaaaaaa to the Bagel Locations (http://raoulschinasaloon.com/index.php?topic=5898.0) thread, I'm creating a more general thread for foods you want (or want to show off).
So put your other food porn here and keep it out of the Bagel thread! asasasasas
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So put your other food porn here and keep it out of the Bagel thread! asasasasas
Thank you! At last I feel free. For all my life I have had to pretend that I am the same as so-called 'normal' people while knowing that I was 'different.'
When I was a child my parents forced me to eat bagels and be like any other boy on the block.
As I entered puberty, and started to develop, I started to feel more attracted to doughnuts and soon found my classmates labelling me as a 'baggot.'
I went through a period of confusion. Bagel lovers tormented me about my unnatural desires - I would often sprinkle my bagel with icing sugar and once I had an uncontrollable urge to spread Marmite over both sides of the grossest bagel you have ever seen - and soon found myself excluded from their activities.
So, I am so greatful that you have allowed me to come out of the pantry. Now I can feel like the real me. I can lustenjoy the company of other doughnut lovers in the knowledge that the bagel people can no longer put me down.
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ahahahahah
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That's it xwarrior, admitting you have a problem is half the battle. A little electroshock treatment and you'll be fine.
Over in the smart people thread, Larry Paladine has now brought up waffles.
What I crave is real sweet peaches and cream corn with tasty salty butter
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Over in the smart people thread, Larry Paladine has now brought up waffles.
You mean he really aaaaaaaaaa ... that's disgusting!! I am really glad I wasn't there to see that.
Still, the bagel people deserve that for rejecting our suggestions on how to get a life widen their culinary experiences .
On second thoughts, maybe Larry did the right thing. Maybe we should all tank up on waffles and go over there and aaaaaaaaaa
REMEMBER THE SLOGAN: the best part of a bagel is the hole
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bkbkbkbkbk ahahahahah
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A Super Burrito please, Al Pastor, en todo. Sin queso, por favor. From a proper taco truck.
And a large horchata would be nice too.
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Right now I would dearly love to possess some extra mature Cheddar cheese. Hmm it's making me too hungry just thinking about it.
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I have a block of 5yr old cheddar cheese in my fridge that I brought over from Canada. agagagagag agagagagag aeaeaeaeae
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I have a block of 5yr old cheddar cheese in my fridge that I brought over from Canada.
ah, you mean you have a "block of deliciously aged cheddar." ahahahahah
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Shades of Wallace and Grommitt here,you guys bfbfbfbfbf
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So now we know what sort of sick things XWarrior has been doing in the food cupboard. aoaoaoaoao
Personally, when I'm not missing bagels, I could really go for a nice thick Delmonico steak, cooked rare so that it bleeds when sliced. Some garlic butter to top it off, along with a huge pile of fries. Gotta remember to go to Bern's Steak House the next time I'm in Tampa.
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I don't miss bagels...I think bagels are stupid...I mean, a perfectly good bun has a bleeding hole in it, can't make a proper sandwich out of it...just a bafflingly stupid invention...
I miss pickled herring on Danish rye bread, all the 8 different kinds we normally have, smoked eel with onions and scrambled egg, hummus...oh Lord, hummus, tzaziki, an iskender kebab and fresh pita bread....slobberslobberdrool...
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In the wild, bagels don't have holes. The hole comes from when the bagel hunter shoots them.
Most bagel hunters use low-caliber bullets, so the holes are usually small. Just don't smear the bottom half with anything too gooey and you can make most sandwiches using bagels just fine. I'm about to have ham & cheese on a bagel for lunch. ababababab
I encountered something reasonably close to pita bread at one of those lamb-kebob stands in Yunan.
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hummus...oh Lord, hummus, tzaziki, an iskender kebab and fresh pita bread....slobberslobberdrool...
Take the Lin'an bus into the big city. When you get off near the football stadium, walk around the stadium's north side (counterclockwise), on the other side you'll see the golf driving range. Walk past that heading straight west and out of the whole sports complex. The major crossroad there is Yugu Lu. Cross Yugu Lu and you'll be on the western extension of Xixi Lu. Walk about 50 meters and you'll see M-2 Tiba Cafe on your left. It's kind of new and it's Syrian owned. They've got all of the above and more: shawarma, fatoosh, baba ganoush, felafel, dangdang. Oh, and hookahs, too, if that's your style. zzzzzzzzzz
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I have a block of 5yr old cheddar cheese in my fridge that I brought over from Canada. agagagagag agagagagag aeaeaeaeae
Ah darn you, this craving isn't going away.
To add:
Cheddar (or decent cheese board)
Crackers
Nice bottle of Rioja
I need something refined, all the piss poor lager here is making me feel less than civilised!
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I'm craving something youse guys is awash in: grilled lamb sticks and nang bread. ananananan
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a nice cheap chicken dhansak with chutney, puppadums and a good cucumber raita, but CHEAP
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I'm craving something youse guys is awash in: grilled lamb sticks and nang bread. ananananan
same... A bottle of Yanjing to wash it all down with too.
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Cheese dip. This stuff. http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/fritos-chili-cheese-dip.html You can't even buy it in Shanghai. The only place in China I know where to get it is in Hong Kong.
Sweet Pickles is something else I loved that just cannot be found here. There are some upmarket shops that sell pickle relish, but I want the large Delmonte brand. Funny thing is that I lived in Korea before China and they love sweet pickles and it was easy to find.
Krystal Hamburgers. Not f'ing White Castle (I dislike the brand because they call their hamburgers SLYDERS, which reminds me of what happens to the food after ingestion.) Many a drinking night, I wish I was near a Krystals and get 6 of them, with nothing bun bun, meat, grilled onions, a dill pickle and a squirt of mustard.
http://krystal.com/
Memphis bbq pork sandwich with cole slaw.
CORNBREAD
I miss Mexican food too. There is an independent Mexican restaurant that has been around a few years, but the food is not good. Expensive and small portions.
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I'm still hoping to find a place that serves real civet.
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I was in a shop in Zhaoqing looking for a packet/tube of potato chips/crisps/do not know what Americans call them, when I came across a packet of mustard flavoured steamed potato biscuits.
My mind cranked slowly through a logical path that went something like:
- you love potato chips
- the best ones in China are Pringles but they are really mashed potato shaped to look like chips
- Pringles cost up to RMB13 and you get about 120g
- these House of Steamed Potato Biscuits cost RMB8.50 and weighed out at 238g
- you also like mustard so maybe the tube of mustard illustrated on the packet could be eked out to provide flavouring for meals in the future
- surely a potato by any other name is going to have a similar taste
- there is only one way to find out ... buy a packet
When I opened the packet at home the first thing I noticed was a total absence of tubes of mustard. As I live in China that came as a disappointment rather than a total surprise.
The second feature was that the biscuits were sealed in 20 sachets - I looked at that as a plus as given a packet of chips I will eat the lot in one sitting.
Then came the taste test. I do not know if you have tasted pure wasabi that has been distilled to intensify the flavour but that is somewhere near to the taste of these steamed biscuits. I nearly died.
After assuming the recovery position I nibbled my way through the first sachet. Within minutes my blocked nose had unblocked, a pounding headache had disappeared and I could turn off the heater for the first time since the beginning of winter.
The packet lasted for 10 days so I give Mustard Flavoured Potato Biscuits a +++ for value. The only reservation I have is that I could not taste any potato.
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I'd really like to know exactly WHERE in Hong Kong all this cool food is! I went to City Super at Harbour Plaza on Monday gone, but was quite disappointed- seemed to only be Japanese stuff. Their cheese selection was almost orgasmic though akakakakak. I know Western food is widely (and cheaply) available in HK, but where?
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For me, nearly everything mentioned in this thread is sold in the small shops or little local supermarket here in my community. I'm going shopping later and trying to decide for dessert between making an apple pie or some brownies, while others are just hoping to have seen cheese or butter (which i eat both of every day). Talk about your "two China's". The big city is where it's at if you want western style food guys!
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Carrot cake. bfbfbfbfbf
Actually you can buy it in a couple of places here in Dalian. One place is way too heavy for my liking, the other is perfect but expensive.
I am baking one now in my oven. I cheated, brought a box of mix from Canada. However, it is almost baked and smelling heavenly akakakakak akakakakak akakakakak
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Pancakes from scratch with proper maple syrup. ananananan
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Proper queso (cheese) dip from a Mexican joint, preferably made from Mexican Asadero cheese. You can get queso here, the jarred kind made by Pace or Old El Paso or something, but it just isn't the same at all. My husband and I went out for Mexican last night and while they had queso on the menu, it was pretty vile and didn't at all resemble proper queso (the rest of the meal was great though). I know I shouldn't be complaining since a lot of you can't get any Mexican food at all, but real queso is a serious vice of mine back home and I miss it!
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Might sound strange but I miss kangaroo sausages ahahahahah ahahahahah ahahahahah
I used to make the best curried sausages out of kangaroo meat sausages, some good mash and a beer and I'm in heaven bhbhbhbhbh bhbhbhbhbh bhbhbhbhbh
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I gotta admit that I just about have everything beat now. I make my own sausages (bratwurst, chicken bacon and blue cheese (with smokey sauce) and english style sage being the favourite of the moment) and breads of all kinds, do all my own cooking. Foreign visitors to my kung fu school bring in stuff I can't get like real aged salamis kalamata olives etc (a project for later in the year - a chef freind is going to bring the cultures and stuff for fermented meats like salami, and maybe later get into cheeses) I mail order cheese and other ingredients, even fresh vanilla beans and real mozarella and tomato paste etc. Blue mountain (fake) coffee from Yunnan, and stuff like that.
However, can't quite get pies to work. I would have to get a real oven, and there is no room for it. My little oven can't quite do it properly. And flaky pastry is just too hard.
I miss pies. But my waistline doesn't.
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I've had Hakka Dofu before. I've had Hakka Dofu made my a very dear friend's mother, and it absolutely rocked.
I never had Hakka Dofu made by her mother using dofu and pork from her hometown - until a couple of days ago.
Mere words cannot describe how good it was. akakakakak akakakakak akakakakak
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We have avocados in Dalian. Pricy bibibibibi 6 / 100rmb asasasasas
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A few things I havn't made in a while, because I've been too
lazy busy. Cheese and onion bread. Leek and potato soup. Roast chicken. I should do one or more of these while my mother in law is visiting. Maybe this weekend. Pancakes with maple syrop and either bacon or brekkie sausages would be a fantastic weekend brekkie! Hmm, can I get pancake mix here? I'll have a look at my favourite haunts on Saturday
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avacodos - I have seen in chengdu quite often at Sabrina's country store across from Sichuan uni. and here in Shanghai I see them quite often at every store I have been too including century mart - and not a bad price either.
Pancake mix is also quite widely available. Metro carries a few different brands, carrefour, Auchan, City shop all also carry some. I have found it in every city i have been too as I love my pancake brekkies. Usually with some fruit added. The hard part to get is the maple syrup (at a decent price).
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The foreign grocery store has avocadoes for 38 kwai for 500 grams. Problem is that you must buy 3 at a time and they are small
We also have an "Avocado Lady" who brings them in from Yunnan for 18 kwai each. Her's are the size of cantalopes! But not big on taste
goodnews/badnews
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Jusco in Guangzhou always has avocadoes, just can't remember how much they are though. Now everyone's talking about them, think I'll buy some this weekend to put on toast bfbfbfbfbf.
Specialty foreign food shops like Corner's Deli in Guangzhou/ Donnguan and Metro stores have pancake mixes (Betty Crocker)- I've seen blueberry, and buttemilk as well as plain in 1kg boxes. I've gone off pancakes for awhile- all the oil/ fat it takes to make them! But I do have a box in the cupboard for when I do feel the need to tear into some again, as well as a BIG bottle of maple syrup to drown ém in!
I just wish Corner's would hurry up and get the 'Better for Bread" flour back in, it's been a few weeks now and I want to keep my stash up for pizza making!
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I'll put up a recipe for Pancakes in the Recipe Section, by Friday evening (my time).
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Pancake mix is also quite widely available.
We always made our own Pancakes back home - I have never tasted the packet variety. It is a pretty basic mixture of self-raising flour/eggs/sugar/milk. Our pancakes are cooked in butter - a dab wiped around the pan - so there is no oil taste. I look forward to seeing Amonk's recipe.
New Zealand is not big on maple syrup. The two standard dressings are:
1. Golden Syrup - so sweet that after 2 pancakes you think that you will throw up if you have one more (kids love them)
2. Lemon juice/Sugar - sprinkle sugar over the pancake and then squeezes of lemon juice (a taste sensation)
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Since I'm in Canada (in the land of the French to be more precise), I'm missing me some sweet and sour beef I had at the Teddy Bear Hostel in Emei Shan. Hostel food had only been so-so until behold, this plate of pure taste-awesome hit my tongue. Oh man I wish I had ordered on the first night and not on the last!
I know, though, that I'll be jonesing real bad for some poutine when I'm abroad. Anyone know any place that has this? I believe while I was in Shanghai there was a fancy shmancy restaurant owned by a Canadian in the Shanghai Financial Tower, but I don't know if she would serve that...it's not exactly a fancy food.
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where? -- good price!
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I'm already plotting to gain about 5 kg while visiting the US. I can already hear the call of wild Cheeze-it's waiting to be hunted down and eaten. ahahahahah
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Don't worry EL, you'll soon find a way to work uuuuuuuuuu it off! bfbfbfbfbf ahahahahah
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I know, though, that I'll be jonesing real bad for some poutine when I'm abroad. Anyone know any place that has this?
The Bookworm in Suzhou used to serve poutine. Don't know if they still do.
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I brought something back with me in September. Sitting in my lap now is the ONLY box of reduced fat Cheez-Its in all of China (at least the only one I'm aware of).
I've defended this box valiantly. My best friend almost opened it out of curiosity in September and I snatched it away from her and tossed some chocolate her way as a distraction while I hid it. My wife wanted me to take it to her hometown for Spring Festival. "Get your own box" was one of the better mottos used to promote Cheez-Its. uuuuuuuuuu
The expiration date is approaching. If I don't do this now, I'll have a box of stale Cheez-Its. I'm about to rip it open and go face down into the box. If I don't make it back, please know that I was happy during those last moments.
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I brought something back with me in September. Sitting in my lap now is the ONLY box of reduced fat Cheez-Its in all of China (at least the only one I'm aware of).
City Shops in Shanghai carry them, though at 74 RMB a box, I'm not that big a fan of them.
http://is.gd/KnH5kO (http://is.gd/KnH5kO)
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Go to Taobao and type in "Cheez-It" and you'll get about 10 hits and most of them cheaper than CIty Shop. So you can have them delivered to your door the next time the urge strikes.
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Drat! So much for exclusivity of my reduced fat Cheez-Its. I'd seen regular ones at Guilao marts around Dongguan, but never the reduced fat ones.
Still, it was great wolfing down about half the box in one go. agagagagag
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'Zesty Cheese' Doritos and smoked farmer sausage.
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Shin Jeeang Food. Can't get it for love nor money here in Ningbo.
My kingdom for a chuanr. ananananan
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Out of nowhere, the idea of fresh bread with lots of butter hit me with full force. I'm still suffering an hour later.
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Out of nowhere, the idea of fresh bread with lots of butter hit me with full force. I'm still suffering an hour later.
Ohhhh.... That made me think of toasted Italian bread with lots of salted butter.
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Brought 2 loaves of whole grain bread back with us after half term and they are languishing in the freezer but suddenly we are outh of butter! Drat!! not putting marmite/peanut butter with no real butter.
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Does a fantasy involving Kira Knightly, Claudia Schiffer, honey and chocolate sauce count? afafafafaf
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Does a fantasy involving Kira Knightly, Claudia Schiffer, honey and chocolate sauce count? afafafafaf
It's my thread. I'll allow it. ababababab
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meat pie,sauce and an icey cold full strength beer!
bxbxbxbxbx
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Smartfood popcorn, spinach dip with crusty bread and polish sausage. It won't be long now afafafafaf
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Crusty bread...yeah I have a dim memory of that ... akakakakak
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meat pie,sauce and an icey cold full strength beer!
If you're in or around the Shanghai area, check out Shanghai Pies in your grocers' freezers. Ozzie-owned. Had two for din din tonight.
http://www.shanghaipie.com/ (http://www.shanghaipie.com/)
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Pickled herring...oh, pckled curry, red, grey, dill, chili herring, Sol Over Gudhjem, Smoked Eel with scrambled egg, home-baked rye bread, Riberhus Cheese, Grandma's Carrot Cake....Lordy, it is good I will be able to trek home, albeit briefly, in a month....China is a most disappointing country when it comes to the availability of pickled herring and liver pate... agagagagag agagagagag
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China is a most disappointing country when it comes to the availability of pickled herring and liver pate...
Another reason to love China!
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Craving Easter Eggs
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Hmmm has to be a proper sunday roast with a cold pint in a nice english country pub.
What I wouldn't do for that right now ananananan
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Mexican food. Some real tacos and salsa would be awesome.
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Decided to grind some beef for cheeseburgers yesterday. There wasn't as much beef as I'd hoped (it's a pain to get out the grinder, to set it up, and to clean it, so this isn't done just to make 2 or 3 hamburgers), so my lovely wife surrendered some pork to be added.
I was out of American cheese. ananananan llllllllll ananananan
This meant that I was committing blasphemy already. qqqqqqqqqq Since I was about to violate one of the most sacred laws of the cheeseburger deities, I decided to get experimental. Sitting in the fridge was a package of special, famous, auspicious Dongguan sausages - that intriguing Guangdong style made using sugar instead of salt to preserve them. A big handful of those joined the beef and pork in the grinder.
Other than eating a cheeseburger only using slices of non-American cheese (a most grievous sin that I shall surely suffer for), the results were actually very pleasing.
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Honey Nut Cheerios with 2% milk.
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o_O ... *just* realized - the cheezies have not been added to the shopping list! my honey will be here in less than three weeeeeks - it's not too late!
CAN HAZ CHEEZEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!
:candyraver:
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The craving intensified over night. All I can think of is the extreme cheezy goodness. Now the man is toying with me - he says Air Canuck's 1 free suitcase policy means no room for Cheezeez. amamamamam
He's not serious though. Can't be. kkkkkkkkkk
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I very rarely get cravings but one night last week I had the phantom smell of sausages hit my nose and since then I've been wanting a full English. Think it's time to get some 'western' food in me.
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I just ordered good, brown, sourdough rye bread from CityShop because I have a craving for a slice of home. If only China had pickled herring...oh, if only...
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If only China had pickled herring...oh, if only...
aoaoaoaoao
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Well we managed to get frozen Pita bread in Metro and hubby found chick peas so we had the hummus and pita as it should be but no falafel so that's pretty close I guess..
on another note I would really be happy to have some nice brown bread with seeds for my marmite but will have to make do with the local wonder Fritz the baker until we return home for the winter break.
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If only China had pickled herring...oh, if only...
Durian fruit and stinky dofu should have an equivalent effect.
aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa
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Something I got for the food exhibition which I am drooling in anticipation of is cream crackers. Some Irish Cheddar with proper cream crackers. Can't bloody wait
I might see if Auchan has Port, I'll pay for that out of my own pocket....
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If only China had pickled herring...oh, if only...
Durian fruit and stinky dofu should have an equivalent effect.
aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa
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The imagery is enough to gag one.
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Pshaw...Only those who deliberately avoid the true pleasures in life would find fault with pickled herring.... agagagagag agagagagag
I just got back from the market...I now donkey in my fridge and yet I am sad..My quest to find swan is still a failure. I want to eat swan. This is China. I just saw some Xinjiang chaps selling what appeared to be Cheetah skin on the street. If people can sell the skin of endangered animals on the street in the middle of the day, one should be able to buy swan meat. The quest continues...
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Awwww...you remind me of one of the possible titles of my probably-never-to-be-written China memoirs: A Fridge-Full of Donkey Meat Dumplings
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etr, if you look carefully at a lot of those skins, the pattern on the skin is often spray-painted on.
There are people in China hunting endangered animals for their various parts, but they're usually not stupid enough to hawk pelts on the street.
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Now you've done it. I'm craving donkey dumplings.
AAAAAHHHH!!!! While I was typing that, an insatiable craving for Donkey Burgers formed in my mind.
I'm still looking for civet meat. Someday I WILL have a civet burger with cheese!
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I dunno, RD. I think this would make a better song than a memoire
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You hum it and I'll play along
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McDonald's China currently has on offer a bacon double cheeseburger not at all like their standard double cheeseburger. Larger patties than regular/Big Mac patties, smaller than the quarter pounder patty I remember.) On a large sesame seed bun with a....piquant sauce...that isn't all that bad. Not sure what it is-maybe Big Mac Sauce mixed with a bit of ketchup + black pepper.
One thing I've found in Beijing since moving here is that there are lots of places that serve hamburgers and fairly cheap (20-30 RMB) for a fair sized burger+fries. But the meat they use is poorly chopped/minced. I find a few bone fragments in almost every burger which, along with the undercooking, puts me off.
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I kicked the McD's burger habit cold turkey many years ago. I do occasionally eat their fries and ice cream, but have had one too many "quarter pounder before cooking, eighth (or less) pounder after cooking" and "wow this tastes like cardboard" experiences to ever play burger roulette at their tables again.
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Now the man is toying with me - he says Air Canuck's 1 free suitcase policy means no room for Cheezeez. amamamamam
He's not serious though. Can't be. kkkkkkkkkk
I'm afraid it's true... and just one of the reasons I will not fly with them. kkkkkkkkkk Besides, on long-haul transpacifics, the stewardesses on EVA are much more pleasant afafafafaf than Air Canucks's flight attendants - who tend to be aging 'union' hags and boys 'a little light on their loafers' (not that there's anything wrong with that).
bibibibibi
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I saw Air Kanuckistan is also limiting the size of that "personal item" you get in addition to your carry on bag to something about the size of a very small purse.
No way to bring a laptop, a few other items to valuable and delicate to trust to the baggage barbarians, and a sufficient supply of snacks you've been craving1 to endure a flight. Glad I spotted that the last time I was in a US airport.
1. Look Ma! I'm on topic.
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good old aussie pies are basically all I crave these days. I have to find if the shanghai pie place does mailorder. It's a bit far for a daytrip.
Had home made bratwurst tonight, with fried onions and tomato sauce on home made crusty bread.
You people who can just buy the stuff are so lucky. Went nuts in a Wellcome last week in HK, but teh timtams are down to just 6 and now Mrs N and little miss N are addicts and I have to SHARE!! ananananan
Swan tastes like tough old goose, the only time I tried it, medieval style. Peacock too.
ETR, why don't you pickle your own herrings? The vikings did it so it can't be too hard. Surely some other fish tastes like herrings if you can't get thems, and add some dill and peppercorns and some little cucumbers or whatever is your taste. I like them with mustard sauce, hot, on toast for brekkie. But I would experiment with kippers before pickling fish, if I was so inclined.
We make sourkraut here sometimes, and pickled onions etc.
Gunna do something about a stovetop smokehouse one of these days.
And a still. They ran out of Vodka in this city anywhere practical nearby, again!!!!
aoaoaoaoao
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Now the man is toying with me - he says Air Canuck's 1 free suitcase policy means no room for Cheezeez. amamamamam
He's not serious though. Can't be. kkkkkkkkkk
I'm afraid it's true... and just one of the reasons I will not fly with them. kkkkkkkkkk Besides, on long-haul transpacifics, the stewardesses on EVA are much more pleasant afafafafaf than Air Canucks's flight attendants - who tend to be aging 'union' hags and boys 'a little light on their loafers' (not that there's anything wrong with that).
bibibibibi
:) yah ... I was on one of the very last flights to squeak on with two free checked bags last year. I flew Air Emirates back and forth the last time and must say that although there was the rather long stretch in Dubai's terminal 3 to drag my arse dog-tired arse through for 9 hours - it weren't so bad, really. ...beat the SNOT out of the pay-for-the-privilege-of-having-my-knees-jammed-up-under-my-chin-for-14-hours direct flight via air kanuckistan. AK can suck it.
I was referring to the cheezies back there - as in - [he can't be serious about refusing to bring them to me! o_O noooooooes!!!]...
I've got a ONE SNACK MIND lately. I'm actually using anecdotes about what has become the legendary Cheezie debate to elucidate grammar.
Now he says he's gonna pay for a second checked bag ... (I should alert him about the carry on change though - that's bloody ridiculous!) ... but he says the Stupid Store up the road that could always be counted on to stock the hawkins' IS OUT! ananananan
He lands on Sunday night!!! With Cheezies ....? OR WITHOUT o_O. aoaoaoaoao
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if he comes without, send him back.
Or as the spartans would say, "with your bag of Hawkins or on it"
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Had wife interrogate a meat seller at village market. No donkey meat. No idea where to get donkey meat. ananananan
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You can get it at our local Metro supermarket I posted a pic a while back (or sent it to RD I forget which)
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Offerings at Metro vary over time and by city, but I'll try to check soon. Thanks Piglet!
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Pancakes from scratch with proper maple syrup. ananananan
My wife learned how to make pancakes and biscuits from scratch while in the US from an Arkansas hillbilly, she orders pancake syrup, molasses and maple syrup off taobao. Another favorite she has learned to make is sawmill gravy, cooked to perfection in an iron skillet. The (Chinese) family and friends have tried it and all love it.
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All that sounds awesome so...why not hippity-hoppity down to the Recipe Book thread and teach us how to cook these things? I have no idea what it is, but sawmill gravy sounds awesome agagagagag agagagagag
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All that sounds awesome so...why not hippity-hoppity down to the Recipe Book thread and teach us how to cook these things? I have no idea what it is, but sawmill gravy sounds awesome agagagagag agagagagag
Sawmill gravy is where you take the leftover juices from your sausage (she makes her own), bacon or ground beef in your cast iron skillet, heat it up add the same amount of flour, stir it till the flour's cereal flavor is cooked out, add some milk, salt, black pepper and stir it till it's thick and bubbling. She might add some sausage, ground beef, cut up bacon, sauteed mushrooms, onions and green peppers.
Spoon that over some toast or biscuits and you got a homemade breakfast of SOS ( bqbqbqbqbq On a Shingle), a thousand times better than any Uncle Sam ever served in the chow halls.
She also makes salsa with local ingredients and canned tomato sauce which I love to scoop onto tortilla chips. Now I'm looking for a place in Suzhou that sells avacados for guacamole.
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pop-tarts
strawberry
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home made salsa. The stuff I can get is Metro is good, but I really need to get off my butt and make my own again.
Roast chicken, done with apples and onions and carrots and mashed potato and gravy on the side. With a decent chardonnay and a fresh salad.
lasagna, rich and meaty.
cheese fondue with good crusty bread. Chocolate fondue to follow.
Pffft, nothing I can't do if I get off my butt
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home made salsa. The stuff I can get is Metro is good, but I really need to get off my butt and make my own again.
Roast chicken, done with apples and onions and carrots and mashed potato and gravy on the side. With a decent chardonnay and a fresh salad.
lasagna, rich and meaty.
cheese fondue with good crusty bread. Chocolate fondue to follow.
Pffft, nothing I can't do if I get off my butt
Keep eating that and you'll be all butt
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too late, I already am
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WAS craving braised lamb shanks....only because I couldn't eat anything harder than a lettuce leaf the last couple of weeks (some dental work done). Hit Guangzhou (and thus the dentist return visit) yesterday, so thoroughly enjoyed said dish at lunchtime! Nom nom!
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York Peppermint Patties
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too late, I already am
I know, I was just trying to be nice
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PIZZA! ... I CONSTANTLY CRAVE A "DECENT" PIZZA! ananananan
Occasionally I come across a pretty good pizza in a Pizza Hut or another restaurant, but in three years of living in China I am greatly unsatisfied and remain so ... I can count the good pizzas I've had here on one hand (and still have three fingers left over)!
I spent a year in Guangxi ... lived in Yangshuo ... HORRIBLE PIZZA! It's like tomato sauce on a piece of cardboard! ananananan West Street is nice ... the mountains are beautiful ... a good PIZZA!? ... apparently it's not possible.
I'm not asking for Chicago style, or New York style ... let alone the "Brooklyn Fold" ... I'm just asking for a DECENT PIZZA for Christ's sake! agagagagag
--GA
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Hmmm...Great Ape, look around you. Chopsticks..ok...expecting good pizza or pizza in general in a chopsticks culture is just going to lead to disappointment.
I crave Riberhus Cheese...I just do...
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I had a reasonably good pizza at a German restaurant on West Street in Yangshou in November, 2011. No clue if the place is still there or if they changed chefs in the meantime.
Happily, the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong has Papa Johns. agagagagag
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Happily, the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong has Papa Johns. agagagagag
I guess you don't like real pizza
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Happily, the Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong has Papa Johns. agagagagag
I guess you don't like real pizza
It's MUCH closer to real pizza than Pizza Hut.
Of course, I'd be a thousand times happier if Hungry Howies would open branches in China.
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Our dear late brother Raoul swore by a place in Shanghai. He got regular deliveries, and maybe even had an account there. We'd need to do an archive search.
However, would an Okie know a good pizza, or a Yank, Brit or Aussie? The food in question has become so bastardised that any judgement is totally subjective.
I used to crave decent fish'n chips, even though at home I'd eat them about once a year. Guo Tiao with black vinegar did the job instead.