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What's that, Fever On Arrival ? ← OK OK FUO and OMG England has won.....bollocks (drink MAY have been taken)

ah, the old FOA...have had a few of those...turned out to be dengue x 2 and malaria...ps. remember the baby loss and an unpublished book?? (well, sort of) pps. at first I thought you called me a poser ppps distracted by watching the rugby...go France

that's funny, I sometimes retch when I see my husband...it makes my life in the Uk very difficult.................. sorry, I'm a bit stir crazy today

hey hey Sandy, better be careful, Yuri Gagarin died in 1968

Hey, Doddie, you can't kick me out now, my stuff's still spread all over the spare room thanks for sharing your life with us, it really does feel like we've been living with you and your family. back to reality, it's been a great trip, namow from an honourary Igurot,

(Sorry, Nicola, and... ) Weak ? Oooooo, Waterdogs. I'll accept either the French (which I prefer, I mean from an artistic merit viewpoint) or the English title. ← 37.2 le matin??she has serious mental issues, she does stab a patron (with a fork) and he is a handyman who is terrified about what she will do when he's not there but I can't remember anything else much except the above.............I think the 37.2 degrees is meant to be the body temp. in the morning???

I live near the strawberry headquarters of Somerset but I have never seen such BRIGHT fruit...almost had to put my sunglasses on!! wow

aha, yes, my daughter had that ordered for her in Xishuangbanna by Chinese friends and manfully(?) struggled on with it although she did say it was the only thing in her life so far she was NOT keen on eating again....oh, and it is snake soup that is very 'heating'. Had it a lot in HK in winter, quite delicious.

I think that's Laszlo Almasy in The English Patient

Yes, Racheld! Congrats! #118. "V-E-A-L P-I-C-C-A-T-A" and "What's veal?" (To himself) "Uh... God. What the hell is veal?" from Children Of A Lesser God starring William Hurt and Marlee Matlin. The couple go out to a restaurant for dinner. "Veal piccata" is both signed and spoken. She doesn't know what veal piccata is, and neither of them know what veal is. (Obviously they are not egulleteers.) Question: Does anybody know the meaning of the title of this film? I don't recall that it was ever explained. ← well Donna I know that Mark Medoff wrote the play for a deaf woman who was one of 9 deaf children when she told him there were no roles for deaf actors...maybe the title infers that deaf people are less important to us all than 'normal' people, therefore they must be looked after by a 'lesser' god??...bit early in the morning for philosophising

from the movie that brought us ' F*ck me gently with a chainsaw,' no. 130. Mom's making my favorite, spaghetti with lots of oregano has got to be Heathers??

MSG. Seriously, Maggi is a brand of soup cubes and granules and instant noodles--in southeast Asia, it's a joke that when a student moves overseas to study, they bring these in their bag with them. Not sure which seasoning in particular they've been referring to though. ← I think the Maggi Gastro888 is talking about is the sauce in a smallish bottle, soy-ish but not quite

not a bad effort gfron1, I say, kicking my poor excuse for an apple mousse under the counter so you can't see it

hey Peter, mate tea is coca tea but the yerba is drunk with a straw (I think,as it was long ago I was there...need more mate tea hehe)

I agree. I pointed this out to the chef via pm about a month ago before the onslaught of public comments. I'm not sure if there is an appreciation for how bad the style and grammar is in the text portions of the site and how it also de-legitimizes the other claims for excellence. It would certainly be worthwhile hiring an editor or a good writer to go over the text as Infrasonic suggests. ← but don't let infrasonic write it

what an absolutely stunning array of dishes Gruzia

loving the blog Doddie, a few questions, as my experience of Korea is only Seoul 15 years ago (to buy skiing stuff hehe), do you get out of the city at all, are there beauty spots or national parks to go to? and what sort of sports do the kids do at school? aaah those 'bunny ears' signs made by just about everyone being photographed in your part of the world, I often wonder how it all started....our kids became quite stoic about being cheek grabbed/ photgraphed...on one memorable occasion a tour bus full of Japanese formed a queue on Repulse Bay beach to be in a photo with them, cute.

aaah, just realised 113 is Guys and Dolls...I'm getting slower in my dotage

hehehe

nipples of venus says Chocolat to me but has it been guessed??

My son's ex chef, Michael Caines, has 2 michelin stars and has been cooking with one arm for several years, having lost an arm in a motorcycle accident. If you google his name there are probably interviews with him, etc

Peter, is that like the 'heating effect' of snake which I have noticed definitely gives your body a heat surge?

Is the waiter serving nuts quote from the Thin Man? It seems to be the sort of quirky writing the films were well known for

Just a tiny point and nothing to do with dogs really. If people are eating mountains of rice, veg, and mung beans, there is abundant protein and other nutrients in that meal. Dog may be low on the local hierarchy of meats, but from your description, hardly sounds like it's needed to stave off starvation. Milagai ← I meant they were eating mountains of rice with VERY small servings of the other

Love it!!!! ← Our housekeeper in Hong Kong regularly brought food back with her from her country after her trips home. Once one of the dishes main ingredients was dogmeat. The kids weren't too happy at my barking every time they opened the fridge but I did explain that in some places people are so poor that this is one of the few cheap sources of protein they have access to, as indeed was the case with our housekeeper's family, and it is, after all, just meat. I tried it and it tasted like veal, quite nice actually. But a lot of people did go eeewwww when I told them. ← You don't eat dog in Asian countries because of economics - it's because it's supposed to be very energy boosting and very "warming" for the winter months. It's good if you're a guy and if she brought it back to share with your family, she must've really liked you guys! ← trust me, Gastro888, the dog eating was definitely an economic decision. Deep in Benguet province in the Philippines and the village is an Igarot one (Filipino aboriginal people) and is extremely poor. I later took the kids there and we stayed for 5 days and we all ate the dog adobo as that was pretty well all the protein they had except for manok (chicken) the pork(baboy) was saved for very special occasions. Basically we ate mountains of rice with veg and mung beans and very small amounts of meat. But we did laugh a lot and enjoy amazing hospitality. ......not like the markets I've been to in China where yellow dog is prized for other reasons as you say, as I believe it is also in Korea