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Next time, just add hot sauce! I'd recommend adding fresh lime, too. Also, I want to mention for anyone who might not know that Teresa's also has a branch on 1st Av. between 6th and 7th in Manhattan.

Shiewie, did you go to college in Australia?

The cooking suggestion and some of the things you're putting in your barbecue sauce show an Asian influence in Australian cuisine, which doesn't surprise me. Incidentally, I don't know what HP sauce is, but I got the general idea from your description. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't Australians drink beer often? Do you all use beer in cooking much, like the Belgians do (boeuf a la flamande, e.g.)?

In 1976, when the first 2-storey department store opened in Kuala Terengganu, so many sweet preserved fruits from China came in. My parents and I loved Pingguofu (sweet preserved apples), cherries, and various other things and bought them regularly. I don't remember ever seeing those sweet preserved apples except in China (I found some with a bit of difficulty in Beijing in 1987) and as imports in that Kuala Terengganu store. It's much easier to find the sweet/salty preserved fruits, which I don't like by themselves, and the sweet red dates, beans, preserved ginger, persimmons, even olives (the best sweet preserved olives I ever had were also in Kuala Terengganu, bought in a small store on the main street in Chinatown). There are various Chinese sweets I enjoy very much - black bean, lotus seed, mixed nut, and coconut moon cakes (I'm talking about the little moon cakes you can have year-round, not the huge cakes for the Moon Festival, which I've discussed in the moon cake thread); coconut agar agar; coconut custard cakes; sesame balls (preferably not too oily and with plenty of filling); hopia (but I think that's more Filipino, and I prefer ube - purple yam) - but on the whole, I would have to say that I prefer French, Italian, and Viennese/Hungarian pastries to Chinese ones.

Time to drop the picky eater from the group.

Would you possibly consider lunch instead of dinner? You could have an unforgettable lunch at Grand Vefour for well under 100 Euros if you stay on the menu and don't order a la carte.

Sorry if I caused any offense.

Why do you assume that, Squeat?

I don't disagree, Tommy, but I still say that it makes a lot of sense to ask for a different table if you don't like the one you're given. I recall that when my brother and I went to Bouley for lunch, we preferred to sit somewhere other than the place they initially offered us, so we asked whether the location we wanted was OK. I mean, why sit there upset about where you are seated, if you could change that just by asking? The upshot is, if you care enough to complain about it to anyone or feel the least bit bad about it, speak up. Some people in fact don't care about having a "bad" table, right?

I'm sure it's just as safe for children to trick-or-treat without their parents within the building I grew up in than it was in the 70s, when I did it. Trick-or-treating outside of the building was off-limits, and we were warned about dangerous weirdos that might be waiting to poison us, etc.

Good post Ken, and welcome to eGullet. Consider yourself encouraged to continue posting. (Tangent: Given your moniker, I guess you're a musician?)

I gather you didn't ask for another one. Why not?

In places like Italy and Malaysia, attendants in public bathrooms sit at a table outside the bathroom and I presume they are responsible for keeping the place clean, so they actually do something useful. They don't expect much money, either. But again, these are public bathrooms, not bathrooms in restaurants. Like most other contributors to this thread, I think having attendants inside a bathroom is inappropriate and insulting. Nor do these attendants clean the bathroom. I can get my own towels, thank you very much. I will give a bathroom attendant a $1 bill once, only because I think it's a pathetic job. But I resent the whole situation. For similarly useful jobs, perhaps they could hire someone to hold the subway doors open and put my hat on my head. And perhaps the people who pack groceries in the supermarket should also be tipped a dollar. Think about it: At least they're doing something useful.

So? What happened?

Hey, I thought this was a thread about Chinese food, not Latin food! Say, what does that text mean (I had only one year of Latin in school), and where's it from? I guess it's old enough to be in the public domain.

Do Australians sue for stuff like that?

Looks good. Thanks, Dave.

I looked at the link and still don't know what spotted dick is.

It was really fun to read your blog, Shiewie. Recently I was thinking that there was little activity on the Other Places in Asia-Pacific board.

I'm glad you had good meals.

Roger that, Fat Guy. I'm sorry to say that I understand that there's some correlation between being overweight and getting cancer. But I don't want to go too far off on a tangent here.

Seconded. Which animal's spleen do they use, and is this the place on 1st between 7th and St. Mark's Place? That's right around the corner from me!

What all is in scrapple? Liver, heart, head meat, what else? Thanks for participating. It's been fun to read your contributions!

In the 70s, I used to enjoy the Green Tree on Amsterdam and 111 St. It was a good neighborhood restaurant, although their vegetables were frozen. The Hungarian bakery was originally started as a sideline to the restaurant.

I know some very fat people who are strict vegetarians.