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jacksonbrown

Noodle puller :)
Whats the yellow stuff? It looks like polenta.

grim

Looks like cornmeal so the noodles don't stick - or coarse semolina.

jacksonbrown

Didn't know the Chinese used it

Kapea

@jacksonbrown said: Noodle puller :)
Whats the yellow stuff? It looks like polenta.

Noodle puller makes for happy ending! :)

punkin

GD50

The Chinese equivalent of a Japanese binchotan charcoal table bbq. Binchotan is good stuff. Don't see to many glasses of refreshing liquid and are the ones I do see really water. If that is you punkin sitting there with the blurred watch as you could probably do with a plate of lettuce leaves for lunch by now.

punkin

These guys were outside my hotel where i was sitting on the porch drinking beer. But we had a couple of meals at this restaurant and had many different foods cooked on the bbq.

Last night we went once again to a restaurant where you choose your dinner from tanks of luve seafood which they served later in the restaurant upstairs.

So many different dishes from geoduck served sashimi style to razor clams and myshrooms and 10 or more other dishes.

This was one wall of sample dishes we could have chosen. The other 3 walls also had sample dishes with the centre of the room full of tanks where the seafood was chosen.

jacksonbrown

Anyone in Melb should have a listen to 'eat it' on RRR this morning.
They usually have a drinks guy come in too which can be pretty interesting. They did a big thing about a community still in Collingwood the other week.

Smaug

One of the goeduck dishes we had.

Smaug

And here is a lovely dish that we didn't have.

Smaug

Two sided hotpot. Mild/spicy hot.

Smaug

Don't exactly recall what these little fellas are called other than sea worms or the like?

Yes we had these.

Smaug

Some cock.

Smaug

grim

I'm absolutely an omnivore foodie, and I understand there is a long tradition of serving animals with heads attached - suckling pig, whole fish, etc. I am no denier, and I know where my food comes from. I even sometimes cry spontaneously when I think about vegans and bacon, but I really think the visual aspect of food is important. I'm not talking froo froo haute cuisine shit, because even rustic foods can look incredible. But heads on? Especially poultry? It's like an inedible garnish, serves no point, and surely doesn't make the dish more appetizing. I'm not even talking about not eating head parts, guanciale done right is incredible, but what purpose does a beak on a plate serve?

Just my 2 cents and I acknowledge my cultural insensitivity, but we don't need our food watching us as we enjoy it.

Smaug

I can only assume that there are or have been lots of hungry people at one time or another that are or were very hungry every day. And so perhaps the head may very well have represented a valuable part of total daily nutritional value? Perhaps it is a symbolic part of food preparation that reminds the food preparer and diner that nothing should go to waste?

Seems fish get an easier pass on the head thing? I hear fish eyes are yummy.

I have to say that the Chinese do indeed suck the meat off of every morsel they put into their mouths.

Prime for me please.

Smaug

One of our factory people did comment however that food in China does even confuse him. He says that Chinese people can make food out of everything.

Our Chinese travel companion also ate some food that he had never seen before. He is from the north. Food in the south is really very different.

Smaug

Take these sea creatures for instance. They weren't really bad. But once was enough.

zymurgybob

Anyone ever see the Anthony Bourdain program where he was fed the warthog anus roasted in the ashes of the fire by an African bushman cook? Understand there was no water available for, like, washing food before cooking.

Smaug

@punkin didn't we eat some swine Anus also?

Smaug

Krill or some such thing.

zymurgybob

Yeah, sure, but yours was prolly washed.

Smaug

@zymurgybob said: Yeah, sure, but yours was prolly washed.

Gawd I hope so!!

Smaug

They can build a high speed rail that bops along at 400km per hour,,, they could at least wash up my pig anus is all I'm sayin.........

Smaug

A lovely assortment of snails and slugs.

punkin

Those mud worms put out an aspic when heated in a stock that means the dish is served cold like a moulded jelly.

Once was enough for that one.

grim

Isn't fried calamari really pig anus?

grim

This

punkin

You can see the worm jelly in Larry's last banquet picture at the bottom left 7 oclock.

Also in that pic is one of my favorite dishes in China and very common. Razor fish with garlic, chilli and spring onions. Its at 11 oclock.

Smaug

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