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Gratuitous sausage roll image from last year. No apologies.

Tagliatelle with chicken, maitake (hen of the woods) mushrooms, asparagus and basil in white wine.

More panda porn train noodles.

Mooncakes are not pies and, unlike pies, are barely edible.

I hate this topic! I love me a good Scotch pie, a chicken and mushroom pie, a steak and kidney pie, a good sausage roll. Even a shepherd's pie, even though it isn't really a pie in my book. An apple pie. Why did I move to China? A totally pie-less nation. You can google Chinese pie. All you'll get is some bizarre Canadian not-pie! 😀

They are sold loose by weight, so there is no real information that I remember. Again, I'll check tomorrow and get back to you.

a) when you have cooked something so many times, the recipe is in your DNA and you don't have to refer to any book or notes or whatever. b) when you have cooked something so many times, but suddenly you can't remember if it had this or that ingredient in it. Or even what it is you are cooking.

That is the most common brand I see here. Can't stand the things myself. All my friends call them "train noodles", as in the past that was all you could really get to eat on China's cripplingly slow trains on your 36 hour or more journey to Beijing or Shanghai. The trains supplied boiling water to hydrate the nasty things. Over the last (surprisingly) few years the entire train network has been overhauled and trains are up to three or four times faster. I recently paid a visit to Guangzhou (Canton). Went in the morning; attended to business; had lunch and returned home the same day. Only five years ago it was a 12-14 hour trip each way! And there is no boiling water anymore. No one needs it! The end is nigh!

I consider this food related! Back story for anyone who missed it. Or is that backside story?

My local supermarkets and markets have about ten different sizes of dried shrimp. Most, if not all, are shell on. I'll check tomorrow. They range from large to the tiniest The smallest are known as 虾皮 (xiā pí) and are barely recognizable as shrimp by the naked eye. They are smaller than a grain of long grain rice.

汤饺 (tāng jiǎo) - jiaozi in soup.

Short grain, sticky rice and sushi rice are three different beasts.

Many more round here! 😂

Yeah. It wants young ginger - look for the pink blush. I'd guess an Asian store/market is your best bet.

I make my own gari (pickled ginger). Couldn't be easier and keeps well in the fridge (not for long - I eat it with everything!)

Indian-style prawn curry with flying fish roe and flatbread. A second flatbread was required.

Googled something (forget what) and eG was first to answer.

I'd say kangaroo and venison are similar in that they are both usually very lean and require careful cooking, but I don't think I'd ever mistake one for the other.

Very well! I always have some tucked away in the freezer; it goes with all sorts of unexpected things.

Now, a proper Scotch pie (not Scottish pie, and Scotch can only be applied to foods and whisky - never to people) is not complete unless the depression on top is filled with mashed potatoes, Heinz beans or both! Some come with curry sauce - never been there. Also, they are usually made from lamb. That said it is at least 40 years since I ate any type of Scotch pie.

You must be buying your bangers in the wrong place. Cardboard?

I was rather fond of the occasional chicken curry pie back in the day. Haven't had one for about 35 years, though.