What's Fer Dinner?

[Non-Dave]

Count me in! I'll do security for the girls with their big bags of cash after the casino outing.

I've always wanted to visit Macau and even though I've been to Hong Kong more times than I can count I've never been able to get there, so this could be the chance! Portuguese and Chinese, I just can't picture the mix!

[acjade]

Hey this looks like being an Aussie party.

And two honoury Oz wives. We could have a serious good time here.

[woza17]

If we go off peak Sunday to thurs I think there is a really good hotel right on the beach on Macau island you will love it. A fantastic bakery down the road the bestest near a double grouse Potugeuse restaurant with great cheap red

Lunch today, meatloaf,baked capsicums stuffed with curried rice pilaf and yam, potato and spring onion mash.
My son suggested I should take up cooking as a hobby. Six helpings at 40 yuan
I baked the meatloaf in my little toaster oven very simple but delicious.
Now I have to get dressed up to look like a teacher and go and do a demonstration video for a new school that is opening.

[Mr Nobody]

Mrs N is interested, but depends on how she feels, since it will be only about 6 weeks before the baby.

She says I am not allowed to gamble, though.

[woza17]

That's Ok Mr N. Give me your money and I will double it, Mrs N will really like this place and it really is relaxing. Huge bloody spiders though.
Just got back from my shoot, I wore a pin striped suit to do a promotional videos with kinder kids not suitable why don't people give more details.
Anyway must practise my voice over for a bra manufacturer. There is one funny line that I will have to change. "inspectors will hand feel hardness before production"

[Mr Nobody]

Nah, leave it. It sounds perfect. Just try not to crack up when you deliver the line. Wear the suit.



Or just the bra, if you are daring enough.

[teleplayer]

Meant to look up this vegetable for weeks. ..Ober started a thread about cat and dog meat that led to Still talking about local dishes that included Kong1Xin1Cai4. As Raoul points out, still in season. In English, this is known as Water Spinach and in some locals Swamp Cabbage."
Back in my newly renovated apartment and enjoying my own cooking. Following my recent whine about migrating topics under headings to make them more searchable...... I move it all here.
It's for dinner! Bon Apetite!

stil said:

Hey Og, to give you an idea of a typical meal in my area:

We had frog, pig intestine, okra, kong xin cai (don't know the English name for this veggie. Anyone know it?) pig liver, ducks feet and some salted peanuts as an appetizer. As this is Hunan, everything is cooked with peppers. A couple of beers and you have a typical, cheap and delicious dinner in my area.

admin said:

I'm not sure kong xin cai (the name means "empty heart vegetable" because the stems are hollow) even HAS an English name. But it's a long-standing favorite...wonderful stir-fried with garlic. Check it out while it's in season!

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Empty-heart vegetable
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This green vegetable is a favorite in Chinese cuisine. Its competing botanical names are Ipomoea aquatica and Ipomoea reptans. It has triangular pointed leaves of a dark green color, and its stems are light green and hollow, hence the name kong1-xin1 cai4, "empty-heart vegetable". It is sometimes used as a symbol of heartlessness in love-songs.

The leaves and stems are eaten. The root is said to have some medicinal uses - for women's yeast infections, among other things. I can't vouch for that. It has a white or pale red flower, but most Chinese people know it best from the leaves seen at market and on the dinner table.

Another name for it is weng4-cai4, which seems to mean "vat-planted vegetable' (although a different Chinese character with the same sound is generally used). It can grow directly in water without soil, and so is popular for cultivation in poor areas. In some places it is planted between the boards of special rafts that float on ponds and lakes. The English names "water spinach" (independently noded) and "swamp cabbage" are also used for this plant, as is the market name ong choy, which is simply the Cantonese pronunciation of weng4-cai4.

The leaves are soft and cook quickly. It is therefore a favorite of small restaurants that want to save on cooking fuel. It is very tasty, especially when stir-fried with garlic or with fermented bean-curd (see also the recipe for stir-fried parsley).

[cheekygal]

mom was here for a week. So she cooked. And of course the real borsch. I love it. But you have to ask nolefan how it was With beet-root and all

[Lotus Eater]

A HUGE Chinese banquet - with the people I banqueted with a week or so ago. They put it on because my sister and niece were here. The Chinese keep telling me their culture is based on food - but in my experience it is based on alcohol with food as a short respite! I am now calling them 'ganbei dinners'. One by one ganbeis can get very intimidating when there are 14 people in the room!!

Thank heavens I am Australian and as one of my students says "Never drink with an Australian woman - they think alcohol is water"!!

Vitamin B - here I come!!

[woza17]

A friend of mine's husband has just come back from Aussie a delegation went there to study town planning. It was interesting that he was impressed that we paln for the next 100 years apparently and attention to the environment and impact on the people
What has this got to do with food? He bought me back a packet of muesli

[cheekygal]

OK FOUND IT!

[Raoul Duke]

The de-bantered version is in the Library, too...

[cheekygal]

It wasnt there! There was something about Chinese recipes. And here are a lot of western!