liuzhou

Thank you!

As it should be. Looks great

I don't know if this is really a stupid question or not, but I can't find any other suitable area to post it, so... A few days ago, I read an article which mentioned a London restaurant that sounded interesting so I found its website and its menu. The menu is here. I'm intrigued by what seems to be a hors d'oeuvre called "Romeo & Juliets". I've Googled the name and nothing relevant comes up. I've even contacted the restaurant but had no response so far. Anyone know?

Seafood fried rice. Some prawns that weren't enough for a meal on their own, supplemented by dried scallops and smoked oysters. Chilli, garlic, chives.

Although, pandas do prefer bamboo, they are technically carnivores. In the wild they eat small rodents and other small animals as well as birds, fish, eggs etc. In captivity, they do not usually have access to these.

Wild caught prawns with garlic, white wine, chilli, coriander leaf, chives and finished with salmon roe. Served with rice.

A 63-year-old London man has been arrested in connection with the cheese theft. However, the cheese has not been recovered and is believed to have been shipped to Russia or the Middle East. Inquiries are continuing.

Beans and toast, maitake, debreceni kolbász.

Another multiple name mushroom, found wild in Yunnan is Cantharellus cibarius*, the Chanterelle or Girolle. Usually known as 鸡油菌 (jī yóu jūn, literally ‘chicken oil mushroom’) but sometimes 黄菇 (huáng gū, ‘yellow mushroom’) or 酒杯蘑菇 (jiǔ bēi mó gu, ‘wine glass mushroom’, presumably for its shape). These are not particularly common though and relatively expensive, coming to me at ¥421.22 / $59 USD per 500g, although that does include air delivery from Yunnan to my door. Well, the plane doesn’t come to the door but close enough! * Cantharellus cibarius is actually a species group. Precisely which member of the group these are, I haven’t yet been able to determine.

My beaker is 350ml, but I've never used it with one of those presses. But it should be about right, I guess.

I mentioned dried maitake mushrooms back in 2019 but today I took delivery of some fresh from Yunnan province. Grifola frondosa is known by many names such as maitake (舞茸 or マイタケ, "dancing mushroom in Japanese, hen-of-the-woods, ram's head or sheep's head in English and 舞菇 (wǔ gū), 贝叶多孔菌 (bèi yè duō kǒng jūn), 云蕈 (yún xùn ), 栗子蘑 (lì zǐ mó), 栗蘑 (lì mó ), 千佛菌 (qiān fú jūn), 莲花菌 (lián huā jùn), 甜瓜板 (tián guā bǎn), 奇果菌 (qí guǒ jūn), or 叶奇果菌 (yè qí guǒ jūn) in Chinese. It is native to the northern hemisphere from North America, across Europe and to Asia, including China and Japan, where it is particularly valued for dinner. Most in China seems to go mainly to TCM with all the usual unproven medical waffle that entails. Friends here are surprised to see it being eaten. Me likes.

Quite common. I have a stainless steel beaker.

It is a lemon squeezer. Quite common here. Click

I was about to say the same. But no worries! Jamie Oliver is on the case. (Gromitless.) Jamie Oliver asks cheese lovers to help catch thieves behind £300,000 cheddar scam | Jamie Oliver | The Guardian

and here's the background to Neal's Yard Dairy and the eccentric genius who created it and much more.