woza17
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Post by woza17 on Mar 6, 2004 15:41:10 GMT 7
Well it's my day off and I have invited a lot of people over for dinner. I have been cooking all day. Down to the market early to buy the fresh vegies and my home help arrived at 10am (we can't say houseboy now can we, a bit too colonial sounding) Said homehelp is walking the dog up the mountain, hope he gets back soon to peel the spuds. I have some foreigners coming for dinner and I would like to invite them onto this forum, lovely people, my vintage. They are Behai, I think that's right, you know, it's a religion. I spoke to Celia briefly and she is very interested.
I just read my post and I think I sound like a bit of a wanker. Well that said I will submit.
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Post by Gonzo Journalist on Mar 6, 2004 16:51:49 GMT 7
Hmm..foreigners for dinner. Exotic. If they taste like they smell, it won't be nice.
A dilema. We don't cook Chinese for our Western friends, as we don't do it too well, unless we're blessed with a local partner whose mother actually bothered teaching her/him how to COOK. Didn't happen in my case, and talking to my students, they've all missed out. Either Mum cooks, or they eat out.
So is this the death of Chinese home cooking; held to ransom by restaurant chefs?
BTW Carole, what's on the menu and wine list? I always do Indian, Thai, or Italian for "foreign friends". I can either get the ingredients, or do a reasonable approximation.
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Roger
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Post by Roger on Mar 6, 2004 18:16:09 GMT 7
The religion is "Ba'hai", originally from Persia. Wonderful believers, met some in Haifa, Israel!
What a pity I am not in Dongguan today...
Carol's cuisine is an ambrosial anvil!
And she cooks to the tick of a clock - announcing every new dish at its precise delivery time.
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Post by Gonzo Journalist on Mar 6, 2004 18:23:22 GMT 7
Oh, I thought they were FROM Beihai, which imposes no dietary restrictions. I taught some Persian [don't dare call them Iranian!] Ba'hai students in Australia. They didn't seem to have any religion-imposed restrictions. Probably just give the pigs gonads a miss though, just to be on the safe side.
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Post by Steiner on Mar 6, 2004 22:17:04 GMT 7
Hmm..foreigners for dinner. Exotic. Actually, MO, she said she's cooking thread. And last week she had 12 Chinese for dinner. One of the more well-balanced posters here is Ba'hai. |
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Post by George61 on Mar 7, 2004 5:00:57 GMT 7
.........An ambrosial anvil?  ..........  Imagine Roger as a restaurant reviewer....."my companion and I both ordered the soup'de jour, and it was an ambrosial anvil....we both got smashed! The cost per head was a bit of a problem, but we hammered it out.....The restaurant lies beneath a spreading chestnut tree....the ticking of a clock was a teensy distraction,but the steaks arrived just as we were licking the last of the soup from our spoons.." |
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Post by Roger on Mar 7, 2004 18:53:22 GMT 7
..."...she had 12 Chinese for dinner..." soundsa cannibal(l)istic to me!
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Post by woza17 on Mar 8, 2004 17:56:21 GMT 7
The dinner went well, but the best part is I slept in to 12 and Max who helps out on the weekends had the whole flat cleaned up by the time I woke up.
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