liuzhou

Finally found some cooking utensils among my vast collection of unmarked boxes* in my new apartment. So a first meal in a new home. Simple, but after living on delivery meals for days, a real pleasure. *I did ask the help to mark each box with at least which room they found the contents in the old place. Apparently not a Chinese concept! Scoop it all up and dump it at random, instead.

What are the ingredients? It's not anything I've ever seen.

It's fairly normal here. Most supermarkets have them. Even Wal-Mart. Quality varies, though.

Well, it looks like I've moved home. This certainly isn't the old place. Just me and lots of boxes. So, still no cooking. Beijing duck from the supermarket roast bar. Actually rather good and comes with all the required accompaniments, including recrisped skin and the correct sauce!

Knee deep in house moving day, so no cooking. Where's the wok? Packed. So delivery lunch. Actually not too bad. Stir fried beef with pickled baby bamboo shoots. Nicely spiced. Rice and a negligible soup.

Chicken "schnitzel" with cornichons and Nando's Peri-Peri Sauce. There was a potato salad to the side somewhere.

Lemon coriander pepper pork with a simple dressed lettuce and tomato salad.

I have no experience of Asian stores in Canada or the USA, but in my experience in Europe and, more specifically, Asia, your Asian store is likely to be the last place to sell rice in smaller quantities. As I'm sure you know, most Asian people eat rice every day and so buy the stuff in 5 or 10kg bags. That's certainly all my locals stores have. British-Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng has built a whole career talking about this.

While household accidents may well be common, the idea that we don't think about this is nonsense. I think about it more and more as I age, especially as I now live alone, so if anything drastic did happen I may have difficulty getting help. Not thinking about danger is a luxury of the young, although most people I know, young and old, are well aware of the potential problems. In fact, some of my younger friends are more cautious than I am.

Fried chicken and chips.

Chicken in white wine with olives, garlic, shallots, Maitake (Hen of the Woods Mushroom), whole grain Dijon mustard, whisky. Served with orzo. Con fusion food.

Well, i'm not in the States, but in China. Here is the packaging.

Full Menu Back story - Not That Good

This was the first thing I covered in the China Food Myths topic'. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/161694-china-food-myths/?tab=comments#comment-2272416

Liuzhou Fried Rice (using stuff up prior to the house move next week). Rice, pork sausage, egg, mushrooms, peas, garlic, ginger, shallots, chilli flakes, scallions, Shaoxing wine.

Sticking with my pre-house move simple meal project, stir-fried pork with mushrooms and two peppers. Also garlic, gnger, Shaoxing and soy sauce. Rice.

New home is about only 10 minutes walk from old home, but moving is still traumatic.

I'm in the middle of packing to move home. Nightmare. So any cooking for the next week or so may be minimal.This morning breakfast was this. No description required.

Pomelo pith is made into a marmalade-resembling product here. Despite its appearance, it is in fact, used for making pomelo tea.

Late dinner. Linguine e pesto.

Agreed. Round here the peel is also processed and braised with pork.

Pomelo (with avocado for scale). A PITA to peel, but worth it in the end.

Zhuang breakfast 油茶 yóu chá, oil tea with 油条 yóu tiáo. deep fried breadstick. 菜包 cài bāo, stuffed cabbage, Zhuang style.

Not a bad idea, but a) Wouldn't know where to source one here. b) In a way, I like the seasonality.

Tagliatette with a spicy, slow cooked pork ragu. Alas, the basil is over for this year. Served with a nice Australian Shiraz.