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liuzhou

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  1. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Many more round here! 😂
  2. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

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

    Dinner 2020

    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!)
  4. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Indian-style prawn curry with flying fish roe and flatbread. A second flatbread was required.
  5. Googled something (forget what) and eG was first to answer.
  6. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    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.
  7. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Very well! I always have some tucked away in the freezer; it goes with all sorts of unexpected things.
  8. 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.
  9. You must be buying your bangers in the wrong place. Cardboard?
  10. I was rather fond of the occasional chicken curry pie back in the day. Haven't had one for about 35 years, though.
  11. It was always revolting. Sadly, it is available here in China.
  12. Yes. Saw that a while back. Will watch again.
  13. No. Green bell peppers are merely an insidious distraction invented by alien corn pushers to divert your attention!
  14. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Not at all what I planned. It was meant to have fermented black beans, but the bag of such things which I 'definitely' bought last week has mysteriously disappeared. There is a monsoon outside, so I wasn't about to go out to get any. So, this is pork in black bean sauce without black beans. The pork was marinated with garlic, ginger, chilli, Shaoxing and soy sauce. Finished with garlic scapes. There was also asparagus and, of course, rice.
  15. I may have eaten Ainu food. I'm not sure. Long story. The short version is that back in the 1980s one of my friends who was Irish (and still is) was working in Hokkaido and decided to marry his equally Irish girlfriend there. Somehow they got hold of a genuine Irish priest in Japan to do the deed. They also got hold of all the Guinness in the country. I flew to Toyko, then took a bullet train to the appropriate venue, then spent three days in Ireland in Japan. The food I ate was Irish; the beer I drank was Irish; everything was Irish. Except for the last night, when I ate my only Japanese meal in Hokkaido. I can't remember a lot (all that Guinness), but it was like no Japanese food I've eaten anywhere else. I've been back to Japan many times, but never made it back to Hokkaido. I planned a trip this year, but we all know what happened to our travel plans this year.
  16. It may may be a UK/USA language difference. To me, 'wet' in this context means never dried / fresh. As in 'wet fish shop' or 'wet market'. If some were rehydrated that is how I would describe it.
  17. Look again. I labelled them.
  18. The first time my daughter visited me in China, some twenty years ago, we were in the local market and she wandered off while I was negotiating with the bean sprout lady over her outrageous prices. Daughter rushed back and said: "Dad! Dad! There is a man over there selling dog turds! Why????" I knew immedaitely what she had seen. Dried Wet
  19. Pretty normal. A useful tip: if you can't source the sea cucumbers (海参 - hǎi shēn), take a kid's party balloon and stuff it with play-doh. I'm not sure the play-doh or the balloon manufactures do the correct color, but hey, it's all about taste, not color. You won't notice the difference.
  20. Beer! It's appreciated as a beverage, but less so as an ingredient. Most casseroles and stews benefit from being done in beer. Also, of course, it is great used in batter. Two favourites round here are beer fish and beer duck.
  21. I can't actually think of a vegetable I actively dislike* but on the other hand very few excite me. They are just sort of there. Obviously, c#rn is not a vegetable but an alien life form sent by evil forces to destroy humanity.
  22. liuzhou

    Breakfast 2020!

    Duck egg and flatbread.
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