A Chinese Dinner

[dottlejockey]

Very interesting meal and great wine choices!

I grew up with Chinese, Vietnamese and Mexican friends and ate at their houses often as a kid. Dated a couple Japanese girls in college and learned how cook dishes from all the above. My kids didn't realize they had a non-traditional upbringing until they grew up a bit. When it's someone's birthday they always beg for a pot of curry. lol

 

[Rossi320]

The Chinese are said to eat anything that crawl, run, swim or fly

I love all forms of offal, and I’m game to try MOST things.
But no way am I eating any bugs

So black flies are on the menu

 

[OzPiper]

So black flies are on the menu

Not on my watch

 

[irishearl]

The Chinese are said to eat anything that crawl, run, swim or fly

I love all forms of offal, and I’m game to try MOST things.
But no way am I eating any bugs

Apparently, except for potatoes. When I was undergrad some 50 odd years ago, had a friend and fellow student from Taiwan. He wanted to be a film director and apparently made it as I heard he had a film at Cannes some 10 years ago, but I digress. We talked food and he was shocked to hear we Americans ate potatoes as he thought that was only fed to pigs. When I told him how much I liked Chinese food, he offered to cook me some true. home-made Chinese dishes. Worst Chinese cooking I've ever had. He also told me he never washed his pans because he believed the spices he used killed the germs.

 

[OzPiper]

Apparently, except for potatoes.

My Chinese grandmothers must have some Irish genes somewhere along the way
I certainly remember quite a few of my Grandma’s dishes (both of them, from different provinces) having potatoes

I often come across potato served up as a vegetable course in Northern Chinese cuisine.

Happily I enjoy potatoes - my Irish-Scottish wife is particularly fond of them

 

[mingc]

My Chinese grandmothers must have some Irish genes somewhere along the way
I certainly remember quite a few of my Grandma’s dishes (both of them, from different provinces) having potatoes

I often come across potato served up as a vegetable course in Northern Chinese cuisine.

Happily I enjoy potatoes - my Irish-Scottish wife is particularly fond of them

Gotta have potatoes in Chinese Malaysian chicken curry!

 

[OzPiper]

Gotta have potatoes in Chinese Malaysian chicken curry!

My father leaves the chicken and eats just the potatoes
This reminds me I haven’t cooked one in a while.

 

[bullet08]

Was it real jellyfish, or starch paper? Koreans started using starch paper instead of real thing long time ago. I'm sure it's due to price going up. Most places don't even have dried sea cucumber any more. 羊醬皮 uses starch paper also. Sheep skin shouldn't be hard to get.

 

[OzPiper]

Was it real jellyfish, or starch paper? Koreans started using starch paper instead of real thing long time ago. I'm sure it's due to price going up. Most places don't even have dried sea cucumber any more. 羊醬皮 uses starch paper also. Sheep skin shouldn't be hard to get.

It was real jellyfish

We can get sea cucumber (beche de mer) readily here in Sydney, Oz. But the price has gone up a lot in the past few years

 

[AroEnglish]

One of my dreams now is to travel to Australia and share two bowls with you: one tobacco and the other food.

 

[OzPiper]

One of my dreams now is to travel to Australia and share two bowls with you: one tobacco and the other food.

I’ll look forward to that.
Happy to show you around Sydney.

 

[huntertrw]

I have eaten sea cucumber in a cold salad prepared by friends who once owned an Oriental restaurant. The husband was Korean and the wife was Chinese; unfortunately I do not know which prepared the dish. It was delicious, but gave me strange dreams that night...

 

[mingc]

I have eaten sea cucumber in a cold salad prepared by friends who once owned an Oriental restaurant. The husband was Korean and the wife was Chinese; unfortunately I do not know which prepared the dish. It was delicious, but gave me strange dreams that night...

Koreans, Chinese, and other East Asians eat sea cucumbers, as do the Spanish and probably other Southern Europeans in the Mediterranean. They are very expensive these days.