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Ah Leung, Thanks for blogging with us and sharing your week. I had fun!

Yes that is correct. Until December 20, 1999. It is now a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Much like Hong Kong. It is like saying "I don't know what to do with you yet because you are not communistic. I will deal with you later." One country, two systems. Any Portuguese influences in the food? You bet ya! There were a few thread discussions in the China forum on that. That's where we got our Dan Tart! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tart ← And I thought Dan Tarts were all ours!! My favorite dessert. I do remember now reading the threads about Portuguese influence here, but the memory ain't what it used to be. BTW, I think Chinese food would be perfect for an RV, esp. if you have a wok burner.

My friends went cross country in an RV on their honeymoon. They had a great time. It does look like fun, but I'd probably get a little stir-crazy after a while. That curry dish looked delicious. Wasn't Macau a Portuguese colony at one point? Are there any Portuguese influences in the food?

Madagascar.

^^Yeah, one of the spoons I use on a regular basis belonged to my MIL. My husband saved everything.

Big ← Correct! Isn't it amazing, considering how trivial the clue seems, that you can figure out the movie? ← Goes back to the days when I actually watched movies. Very cute scene where Tom Hanks eats the caviar, then wipes it off his tongue with a napkin. Then nibbles the baby corn as if it was a regular ear of corn.

I was a little disappointed that I wasn't a supertaster, but if it means that I: then I'm quite happy that I'm normal. Silly little quiz.

I like to use silicon spatulas for eggs, but use wooden spoons for almost everything else. Have no idea what they're made of, but it's of a harder wood. My favorite is one with a flat end. I use a dollar spoon to stuff garbage down the disposal (clearly marked "for disposal only").

Big This is a wild guess based on the clue. Six Degrees of Separation?

You did it, didn't you ? A charming little gem thet got a very belated DVD release in 2005. Our heroes are deep into their series of audacious motorbike-mounted tourist coach heists. A solitary policeman comes into their joke shop and takes his time browsing over items such as the masks (two of which, clown and wolfman, are just the same as those used in the robberies). Tension mounts as the two lads look about shiftily, nervously occupying their hands, convinced the game is up. Finally the lawman steps slowly and deliberately up to the counter, eyeballs one of them and asks... "do you have any false tits ?" (And Gordon - maybe HannaBanana's issue was with the contention that many of the 'accents' in Far and Away could be called Irish ?) ← It sounds like a delightful movie. Thanks for the last clue. Now that that one's been solved, I can sleep again. But no, there are more!

Ah Leung, One of my favorite chicken dishes is the soy sauce chicken, but I never imagined using Coca-Cola for it. Looks great!

A little googling and some process of elimination leads me to believe that it is Restless Natives, a Scottish film whose only cast member I recognize is Ned Beatty.

Wasn't Mombar then. I set the DVR to record this show on Monday, but I don't have much hope for it.

He must have eaten at Mombar in Astoria. It's a cool restaurant, but I don't remember any bizzare food on the menu. I'm just kind of bothered that he refers to the food as bizzare, because I'm sure people who live in the countries he's featuring do not consider that food to be bizzare. Heck, my mom thought a tuna sandwich was bizzare when she first came to this country. I think I've used the word bizzare more times in this post than I ever had in my life.

Can we please have one more clue? This one is driving me bonkers.

Ah Leung, does Horlicks taste like Ovaltine? I remember Ovaltine being a little darker in color. Ah Escher. I love his work. When we were house hunting, we saw a house that looked a lot like the drawing on your mug. We still refer to it as the Escher house.

My dad (Toisanese) made it for CNY in addition to jai. Mom (from Hong Kong) did say that it was a Toisanese tradition.

Ah Leung, I think it's great that you are pursuing your American Dream. Life is too short not to. Out of all ducks, my favorite is roast duck.

Kung Hey Fat Choy Karen! Did you get any brand new bank notes to stuff the red envelopes? ← Thanks, Ah Leung. Um, I didn't get brand new, but slightly used. The night before I went to the bank my husband was joking that I should askt he teller for new bills with sequential serial numbers, so by the time I went to the bank I got flustered and asked for fresh bills instead of new bills. (Bad auntie, wishing bad luck on the kids.) Then we had a last-minute kid that came to Sunday dinner, so I had to scrounge in my wallet for new-ish bills. I actually went out and bought new hung baos, because I didn't have enough used ones to go around. Ever since my dad died, my mom isn't as adamant about following tradition anymore. I have many characteristics of a sheep. baaa. All signs with links to characteristics from wikipedia. Interesting stuff.

When you're exchanging photos of your food rather than of your kids.

Actually if Hannibal Lecter was a chicken, we would see him making a pot of chicken soup. It was the "Buffalo Bill" character that skins other chickens. (A fan of Thomas Harris' novels) (Removed the nightmare-inducing pictures. ) ← Tepee, not a thing of horror to me. What would induce nightmares to me is if it wound up in the garbage like the skin of a certain Thanksgiving turkey did one year. Actually the chicken on the right looks a little happy...like he fulfilled his destiny. OK, I'll stop now.

If Hannibal Lechter was a chicken, his house would probably look like this!!

Thanks, sheetz. No wonder Mom rarely made it for us. For some reason I thought it was just a boneless chicken that was stuffed with naw mai fan, which would be hard enough, but now that I look more closely at the picture, I can see it is just the skin. I also have a Fear of Deep Frying (more like Hatred of Cleaning Kitchen After Deep Frying), so I like the idea of browning it in a cast iron pan then finishing it off in the oven. Labor intensive, yes, not that hard, no, and looks so tasty. One of these days when I have a huge block of time to spare (like when the weather outside is nasty and I don't want to go out), I'll have to try it.

I've never seen the coconut in different colors before. We've only had the white color. I'm not a huge fan of the sweets myself, so my favorite were the seeds. What we were discussing this weekend was the different translation of some of the animals. Pig-boar, sheep-ram-goat, rooster-cock, cow-ox. What is this all about? Is it just in the translation? (BTW, I'm a sheep. baa)

Sorry, double post.