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Thai green seafood curry. Seabass and wild shrimp.

They are very similar, but not the same. I can get both, although I prefer the HK type. I see them in a similar way to thin and thick crust pizza! HK is thinner and Portuguese thicker. Also, I'm told that the HK type use whole eggs, whereas the Portuguese use egg yolk only and are sweeter to my mind. Also the tops of Portuguese are usually slightly brûléed, whereas HK are never so.

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Bought some Hong Kong style egg tarts. 香港蛋撻.

It's Mid-Autumn Festival (Mooncake day) today. Again. Here is a little video that is going viral on WeChat, the main Chinese social media. (It does contain a mooncake so is not as off-topic as might initially appear!)

No. It's called cos in the UK, too. And in Greece where the word originated. In fact, Romaine is more common in the USA than cos. Also. sucrine isn't synonymous with romaine/cos. Although closeley related, they are different cultivars.

I've gone and went all Sino-Italian. For some reason, I haven't had much of an appetite the last few days - I blame the weather - so I wanted something light. A Caprese salad starter seemed a good idea. Then white shell clam with linguine. The clams were cooked with garlic, shallots, lemon zest, chilli and Shaoxing wine.

Yes, you are right. Two separate cuts of lamb or, more likely, mutton: one lean, the other fatty to the point of being nearly all fat - tail meat. And mixed veg to be wrapped in pancakes supplied. They were rather good!

Dinner with an old friend visiting from Shanghai. We went to a Xinjiang Muslim Restaurant. She chose. Captions are their translation. Xinjiang Mutton Kebabs We'd eaten some before I remembered to take pictures Xinjiang Grape Fish I didn't enjoy this at all. Far too sweet. Pancake Rolled Mutton Grains Copper Pot Cauliflower Rice and Beer not shown.

Another okra fan here. Would love to have a look at the book. Dried okra makes a great snack. Of course, pick out the smaller pods. The people picking out the largest have no idea what they are doing. Large pods are the stringiest, most inedible vegetable on the planet. But those people serve the charitable purpose of removing the garbage so that I can get to the little'uns.

That was my first thought too!

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Spicy, Coriander Leaf/ Cilantro Chicken with Olives and Fresh Straw Mushrooms. Rice.

I want to try smoking meat, but I guess I'll have to wait until Rizla invent greaseproof papers.

I remember many years ago in Italy on holiday, my then just pre-teenage daughter being delighted to find what she termed giggly pasta. To her great disappointment we couldn't find it back in London, until one day I discovered that gigli is another name for campanelle, which I could find. The delight on her face that evening's dinnertime is lodged in my memory. When I was staying with her this summer on my much delayed trip to England, she served it to me! With a wistful smile on her lips.

I am delighted to officially announce that as of today, both my freezers are totally empty apart from air. Ditto fridges. I have decided to adopt the Chinese model and only have fridges to show I can afford a fridge - or even two. And adopt the Chinese freezer policy and pretend I don't know what they're for.

Well it might if it were remotely true. Spam in nowhere near 50% fat, as I pointed out at the time. Spam is around 27% fat. Kobe beef is around 18% - 25% fat, depending where it comes from. American "kobe" is at the higher end of the scale.

Whole Foods is Amazon.

This morning these were in the stores again. In Chinese they are called 雪莲果 (xuě lián guǒ), which literally translates as 'snow lotus fruit'. They are Smallanthus sonchifolius or Peruvian ground apples. In Spanish, yacón. The reason they look like root vegetables is because that is what they are! They are just a sweet variety and are eaten like a fruit, despite being the roots of a daisy-like plant. They are OK, but I wouldn't miss them if they never showed up again. The larger one in the centre was around 11 inches in length.

Buttery prawns with basil, garlic, shallots and Chinese chives over orzo. n

Panino Insalata Caprese Or Mozzarella, tomato and basil in a baguette. Olive oil and sea salt. (Actually I hadn't yet drizzled on the OO, or sprinkled the salt, when I took the picture.

Extremely common, especially in Sichuan where it originated. However, traditionally it is made with beef, not pork. Mapo Tofu is the spelling I see most often in English publications, but "tofu" comes from the Japanese pronunciation of tehword they borrowed from Chinese. In Mandarin Chinese, the overwhemingly dominant language, it is "dòu fǔ".

About to watch this.

'yes I said yes I will Yes" James Joyce - Ulysses.

Hope you don't mean Germany!