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Please post anything I've overlooked, but at the moment, the following references still have not been tied to movies:
1. Peanut butter and ground beef.
2. Pastrami with mayo
3. Crullers & a hot dog (or sausage). And there's a trivia bonus for behind the scenes of the film ("How'd they do that?") involving Jello
4. ".......and a microwave that browns!.......melted cheese, ummmmm I don't
think I EVER tasted melted cheese before."
5. rose petal sauce
6. Jarlsburg grilled cheese sammich
I don't think I've seen "Repo Man"--could someone verify that it is the source for "Plate O' Shrimp"?
I think rose petal sauce is from Like Water for Chocolate??
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The secret to eggplant parmesean, is extra cheese.
Hint: Our govenor in his glory days, and an actor who comes up short (in very few ways)!
surely you don't mean Twins???
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Basildog, just noticed your new signature - made me chuckle away to myself like a mad man!
bwahahahahaha
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Actually I have a few friends 'working' in Patong (I'm female
) and as I can get by in Thai I normally have a great time there but its a bit hmmm for tourists esp. if they are a bit naive, eg, katoey (also have a few katoey friends, no disrespect, just hard to explain to the punters) 
one of the girls there was my kids' favourite babysitter actually it's prob fun for a night out :smile:but the food is a bit pricey and tourist oriented , and Phuket is just another town...there are definitely better fish to fry, eg go diving or sailing. I'm a Rawai girl
Well, I expect Holly's pretty robust. Katoey, schmatoey
For me, Phuket Town's good for the market - I've bought good fabric there (though ironically not in the market itself) - and other things.Rawai's great - I love some of the little eating places in the hinterland back from the coast. Beachwise I've spent more time on Nai Harn, and we're always based at Kata. Steaks at Little Mermaid in Karon tend to get scheduled in at some point (imported fillet with cream sauce (mushroom or black pepper recommended), salad bar included, choice of spuds includes mash, about 16 bucks US with 8oz steak. Beware of the coffee).
Marine creepy-crawlies displayed outside a restaurant, Kata Beach: click here
BTW did Chalie Amatyakul ever have anything to do with Baan Rim Pa ?
Khun Chali started it about 18 or so years ago....for all I know he could have been long gone
Nai Harn gorgeous in season, fucking dangerous other times...many farang drownings, normally from Europe. My favourite favourite Salaloy resto on the seafront at Rawai is GONE
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'Farang' Italian restaurant (owned and run by a Thai chef who trained in a foreign establishment) in Cherng Talay (10 minutes from Trisara) is good - I ate there in December with my brother and his wife who live in the area, and it was their introduction. Not so upscale, but good food - Farang
Upscale, there's Baan Rim Pa for a Thai evening meal on a cliff above the sea, just on your side of Patong - 20 or 25 minutes' drive ? Long-established.
Most of the time I've spent in Phuket (one trip a year for seven years straight) has been in the south, which is a bit more of a drive away. Chalong is great if you sail at all, it's the biggest, most-used natural harbour. Marinas are nearer where you're staying but on the other side of the island.
I'll leave it at that since you're only asking for dining. Of course I should be asking first, but what do you like / not like to eat ? How many people (family travel ?) ? Budgets ?
you've triggered my memory Blether, I was trying to remember Baan Rim Pa. the chef/owner is the famous Chalie Amatyakul, one of Thailand's most knowledgeable and fluent lecturers on Thai gastronomic themes who has been called the high priest, diplomat, missionary of Thai food. It's good
Baan Rim Pa has a nice location but the food is poor - western versions of Thai food. IMO best avoided.
tks Matthew, haven't been there for some years...maybe Chali has sold out??
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Hey, Insomniac. That's the one !
(Why so hard on Patong and Phuket Town ?
)Actually I have a few friends 'working' in Patong (I'm female
) and as I can get by in Thai I normally have a great time there but its a bit hmmm for tourists esp. if they are a bit naive, eg, katoey (also have a few katoey friends, no disrespect, just hard to explain to the punters) one of the girls there was my kids' favourite babysitter actually it's prob fun for a night out :smile:but the food is a bit pricey and tourist oriented , and Phuket is just another town...there are definitely better fish to fry, eg go diving or sailing. I'm a Rawai girl
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'Farang' Italian restaurant (owned and run by a Thai chef who trained in a foreign establishment) in Cherng Talay (10 minutes from Trisara) is good - I ate there in December with my brother and his wife who live in the area, and it was their introduction. Not so upscale, but good food - Farang
Upscale, there's Baan Rim Pa for a Thai evening meal on a cliff above the sea, just on your side of Patong - 20 or 25 minutes' drive ? Long-established.
Most of the time I've spent in Phuket (one trip a year for seven years straight) has been in the south, which is a bit more of a drive away. Chalong is great if you sail at all, it's the biggest, most-used natural harbour. Marinas are nearer where you're staying but on the other side of the island.
I'll leave it at that since you're only asking for dining. Of course I should be asking first, but what do you like / not like to eat ? How many people (family travel ?) ? Budgets ?
you've triggered my memory Blether, I was trying to remember Baan Rim Pa. the chef/owner is the famous Chalie Amatyakul, one of Thailand's most knowledgeable and fluent lecturers on Thai gastronomic themes who has been called the high priest, diplomat, missionary of Thai food. It's good
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We used to spend 4 months of the year in Phuket when the kids were small.
Haven't been back for a few years but local friends say that Kan Eang 2 (not 1, there are two restos) is still great. It's right on the water at Chalong Bay, full of locals, and the food is stunning. Try the gung ten or gung share nam pla which is a marinated very hot raw prawn dish, gung ten means dancing prawns as they are still alive when it's done. Also haw mok talay, a melange of shellfish, fish and prawns steamed in a coconutty red curry paste. All the grills are on coconut husks and the aroma is amazing. Highly recommended resto, the setting is unparalleled
p.s. they have a dish there that I really loved that I thought was shrimp but my Thai girlfriend told me when I asked that it was the small insect that 'lives in the hedge', I think crickets or cicadas. I was enjoying them up to that point
Phuket town and Patong are dumps of the highest magnitude
the food stalls by the beach at Kata are excellent, great som tum and gai phad krapao, it's a lovely beach, and the gai yang is the best, with sticky rice of course.
edited to add off topic but important : it's good to hire a car, just keep a constant lookout on your left hand (inner)wing mirror. Every Thai you see has some sort of scar and it is from a motorcycle accident....overtaking on the inside is the norm, and if there is an accident it will be your fault no matter what (even if you have a Thai wife and kids
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Oh, get over it! Bourdain has mentioned, on this site, I believe, the concept of "Fame Maintenance." There is nothing, and I mean nothing, like a page in O Magazine to ensure Fame Maintenance.
St. Anthony of Manhattan absolutely has that genuine voice, but he has to make a liviing. O Mag is read by others than hausfraus, and I object mightily to the dissing of hausfraus. And Bourdain (whom I've met in his charming real life self) is allowed to make a buck.
well said
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Plate o' shrimp has got to be Repo Man
how about a disgusting bony,lethal chinese meal??
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Blueberry pie is easy -- Stand by Me, the "Revenge of Lardass Hogan" sequence.
How 'bout: an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Not sure, is it Five Easy Pieces after the tomato omelette bit?
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I'll toss out a really obscure one: Jiffy Squid!
It's the famous Memphis seafood resto, Jiffy Squid
'Fresh juicy squid dipped in a (unintelligible) batter, rolled in our own
herbs and spices, served with a tangy sauce withour own secret
ingredients.'
Mystery Train.
Tom is the DJ, Screamin' Jay is the desk clerk
not keen on it myself, but my son is a fan
so enforced viewing -
Xishuangbanna
cheers Liuzhou, I knew there was a 'sh' in there somewhere
well, I can't spell it but it's a gorgeous place as a base to explore the area, which is quite wonderful, along with its people and local food -
Hey Pontormo, the only grape I can think of is the forbidden one in the Spanish movie 'Pan's Labyrinth' that the young girl Ofelia eats but I don't think that's what you're getting at.....anyhoo it is a strange and compelling movie, recommended
peanut butter and ground beef is driving me nuts, you know that just out of sight feeling
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this will only mean something to Ozzies..........I crave Chico rolls, not the new improved low salt, low fat, low everything abominations, I mean the real McCoy........maybe absence DOES make the heart grow fonder
Dare you to order one. I think you'll find it not as good as you remember.
Personally, the battered sav still holds appeal for me. I probably haven't had one in ten years, but very occasionally the craving grabs me.
would give either a bash but rural Somerset is thousands of miles from the nearest place I could
Woops.. I didn't notice your location. I'd have one in your honour, but I wasn't mad about them in the first place.
well, have an iced vovo for me instead -
this will only mean something to Ozzies..........I crave Chico rolls, not the new improved low salt, low fat, low everything abominations, I mean the real McCoy........maybe absence DOES make the heart grow fonder
Dare you to order one. I think you'll find it not as good as you remember.
Personally, the battered sav still holds appeal for me. I probably haven't had one in ten years, but very occasionally the craving grabs me.
would give either a bash but rural Somerset is thousands of miles from the nearest place I could
with a bottle of Rosella tomato sauce on the side; is my age showing??
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Y if I may
yams
yucca
yuzu
Yorkshire pudding
yabbies
yoghurt
yum cha
etc etc etc
a mini tour of the world in one letter. Will wait for someone else to supply the definitive list
This is my small story, set in Yunnan province,China, about a young man, a yearning mother and yak butter tea.....
Over the years we have spent a lot of time between mountainous Deqin and Zhongdian on the high empty plains of northern Yunnan province alongside the border with Tibet. My dearest friend there is Suolang, a strong, rosy cheeked Tibetan woman who had sent her small son over the Himalayas 10 years earlier to the Dalai Lama in India. This journey is on foot, illegal, in secret and fraught with danger and Suolang had never had word back from her son.
On my last visit her door was opened by a young man, Suolang's son, back from the dead, laughing and toying with their huge slavering, semi-wild guard dog
(which scares the crap out of me) as he welcomed me inside. Turns out he had only been back 4 days, and when Suolang first saw him she had collapsed and had taken to her bed for 3 days.However now she was in fine fettle and set about churning the yak butter tea and spooning out tsampa that we sipped at as we listened to the story of Nomnom's incredible journey to India and back, (scaling the peaks past the bodies of people frozen in their tracks, in Adidas sneakers (fakes
) which he was still wearing 
) In English as he could no longer speak much Chinese, a slight hiccup.I can manage yak butter tea if I tell myself it is soup
suggest we serve it as an amuse, in the tiniest of glasses, with a teaspoon of tsampa on the side
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this will only mean something to Ozzies..........I crave Chico rolls, not the new improved low salt, low fat, low everything abominations, I mean the real McCoy........maybe absence DOES make the heart grow fonder
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Unopened they are OK, but once opened they really don't last as long as one would think.. they don't go off per'se, but the flavour does degrade into something not too pleasant!
and many would ask, 'How can you tell?'
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Guangzhou's prices often reflect its proximity to Hong Kong.
We ate at a superb buffet (normally avoid them) in Xixuanbanna (sp?)southern Yunnan province and it was RMB20 per person including all the beer you could drink......they were obviously not used to seeing many NZ/Ozzies
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The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
a spaghetti-proof bib, two pork chops and a few slaps round the chops........
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when I was very young I used to stay on a relative's farm and eat cornflakes with a splodge thick yellow cream on top and for years and years and years I have been trying to figure out what that cream was..... we are now living in rural England and I visited a neighbour's milking shed and realised it was the layer of raw cream on the top of fresh milk which had sat for a while...OMG it is the most wonderful cream you will ever eat
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Wallace and Grommit - the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
I give you a ritz cracker and chopped liver
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Have to say that Pure Lotus is stunnning and my kids preferred it to the Li Family restaurant...I loved them both, especially as old Mr Li came out and sat with us for a long time and enthralled us with his story. My son (chef) was desperate to find out which knives were used in the kitchen and came away a happy
boyps. the hand wipes are important....they are easy to buy most places
I'll Name the Food, You Name the Movie
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I have a horrible feeling that corn dodgers were in the Little House on the Prairie, the movie not the series??
don't blame me, blame the kids