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Q: Do you cook Chinese food...
...using traditional Chinese methods of MSG and a pile of powders and crap that gets used on everything in every restaurant and street food vendor?
Or do you use silly western recipe books which don't use any of those things?
(if, of course, you bother cooking any Chinese food at all...)
'Good cooking' is a gift. Cooking books can't help you, if you aren't talented (as I am
).
I usually open my fridge, and cook whatever I have stacked in. Never use recipes and other BS.
Similar as 'playing violin without music notes'.
Chinese food? I eat only with chopsticks, even steaks and peas. Out of the bowl, with pre-cut steak.
I just returned from grocery shopping with loaf of baguette and 2 l of NZ milk. There's nothing to buy here. I had a feel for 'blood pudding' and pint of Harp today. I forgot to buy strawberry jam and peanut butter.
Can't wait for Sunday's ZZ Metro groceries. Gnocchi and tuna cans. Groceries shopping list is getting updated several times per day.
I don't have an oven. There are no canned goods. There is no cheese. The frozen foods sections is terrible unless you enjoy eating dumplings. I only have a stove top. I pan fry food everyday.
I miss the convenience of American food.
'Good cooking' is a gift. Cooking books can't help you, if you aren't talented (as I am).
I usually open my fridge, and cook whatever I have stacked in. Never use recipes and other BS.
Similar as 'playing violin without music notes'.
Chinese food? I eat only with chopsticks, even steaks and peas. Out of the bowl, with pre-cut steak.
I just returned from grocery shopping with loaf of baguette and 2 l of NZ milk. There's nothing to buy here. I had a feel for 'blood pudding' and pint of Harp today. I forgot to buy strawberry jam and peanut butter.
Can't wait for Sunday's ZZ Metro groceries. Gnocchi and tuna cans. Groceries shopping list is getting updated several times per day.
I'm trying to get fired rice down, but I can never get the oil ratio right. I always make it too soggy, and sesame oil is surprisingly pungent.
As for MSG, well, I don't use any powders. Would they put that shit in stuff like soy sauce?
icnif77:
Cannabis oil is less pugnent. Think 'MSG is everywhere....' for better-sleep
-wise.
Shining_brow:
What the....?????
Sesame oil is a flavouring - not a cooking medium!!! I only drizzle it into something like a bowl of noodles!!!
As for the rice... I only use rice that I've gotten from a restaurant take-away. That way, I know it's been cooked about right. Not soggy rice that way.
icnif77:
Sesame oil is that brown stuff, which they add to the hot pot. I eat that with spoon mixed with jam. You can't cook with sesame seeds oil. I guess, that thing would burn as soon as pan heats it up.
WooMow:
Haha obviously I'm not using sesame oil as the base, but as a flavoring a little goes a long way, and a lot goes too far.
As for the rice, a friend told me it is best to use rice that has been in the fridge overnight, after mixing in some salt.
My problem is I'm too heavy handed with the oil, soy sauce, vegetable oil, siracha (oh yeah) and my rice is always in different amounts
Thanks to online stores, thank goodness no I don't have to.
No, but I eat Chinese food every day. And I'm actually sick to death of it. Just same same same. Full of oil and salt. Pretty much disgusting muck.
I cook up meat and veges in my crock pot from time to time and I know I should do that more often. Can't buy much of anything where I live...certainly no NZ milk or cheese of any description. As for buying online, I can't afford to. A can of tomatoes costs Y8 but add another 250 for delivery. I do buy boxes of Weet Bix though. Yes, expensive...but that's life. My wife cooks hundun for me on mornings when I'm most hungover.
icnif77:
They just don't have anything in Xin's Supers, if I remember Fuk. I was close-by Urumqi, where is a bit better choice, but overall Xin can't be too pro-Western
.
Shining_brow:
Don't you guys have a lot of lamb up there?? And, if so, don't they do any good lamb chops?
I'd be doing them with steamed vegies (from the rice cooker!) a lot! As it is, my usual was pork chops with veg.
icnif77:
When are 'lamb's holidays', farmers/butchers come with live stock to the housing complex, and tie them for trees and exercising tools in park bellow.
Then, they go into distribution. I'm not sure, where do they cut them before delivery to the individual apartments. They might set-up portable cutting board on the park lawn. Birds eyes view must be surreal.
royceH:
Yes, that's right and I've had that bird's eye view. I used to live on the 5th floor of an old appartment looking down into the tree and grass area directly below and I would watch them pound into the poor beast with a big paddle before cutting it's throat and hanging it from a tree. From there they would do the skinning and gutting before the cutting up. The children would be able to play with the head, rolling it around and such.
Different to how things are done where I come from.
icnif77:
They always eat pristinely fresh meat. You can't ever achieve that our way...
.
Housing complexes in Fuk. aren't any different than in Dalian.
Customer on 29th floor with binocs on his eyes dial mobile of the butcher/dispatcher on the floor.
''Hello, I want one on the S side of the park....''
''Yeah, yea, brownish white, tied by the swing.......'me-meee, you're mine!''.
17' later animal arrives in pieces in apartment on the top of the building......
'Allan's Snack-bar'
Uyghurs selling binocs on outside market in Fuk and Urumqi. Military grade. I could never reason, who's buying binocs there. We talked about that last year, if I remember correct.
I found another naan bakery by the Bus-Railway Station in my city today. Bakers are Uygur's looking....2.5 a piece.
I'm going to make a New Year's resolution (first time for everything) that I will demand no msg goes into anything I eat. It'll begin tonight when we go to a hot pot joint.
Seems like msg is no good for health. I already have the habit of asking for yi dian dian you.
And a secondary resolution will be that I make more of an effort to cook at home. Although that one can wait until it's actually next year.
Starters can try tomato & egg fried rice.
Shining_brow:
Or, just Tomato and Egg... it's basically a simplified omellette.
