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You know - when you've had a BCD and you're stressed from the BS and ready to see an MD, and your PCs broke and there's nothing on TV, what do you treat yourself to when you feel like a little TLC? For me it's chili (with just a soupcon of PCP). It's not the real deal authentic meal, but I enjoy cooking it and I can eat it all day ('cause truth be told I am kind of OCD).
Beer, chips, apples, freshly baked bread with imported cheese. I recently found a bag of roasted peanuts with an insane amount of chili and sichuan peppers, best local snack so far.
Kourou (扣肉) and Hong Shaorou (红烧肉). Actually, anything the wife or mother-in-law cooks.
chocolate from home. down to the last bar now
Hulk:
Go to RT Mart, Hypermart or something like that, and look in the imported food, and the candy bar sections.
There's some really, really good chocolate from Switzerland.
bansufan:
This is the same for me. I am trying to make all the chocolate I brought with me last as long as possible. I even asked my mother, knowing in the future she will send me something to put some local chocolate from home in the package.
A tuna melt sandwich (on whatever-grain bread from Metro)...with a giant pickle or three on the side.
Creme de cassis with Dubonnet over ice. And then I completely fill my bathtub with 100% watermelon juice at room temperature and relax in it.
Hulk:
xinyuren, no.
I once left watermelon in my kayak's storage compartment for 2 weeks. When I came back it just smelled like disgusting corn and had to be washed out. It didn't stick at all.
royceH:
You haven't even got a bathtub Belle....come on, admit it! You're fantasizing again, aren't you?
So, what happens after the tub?
belle_watson:
Actually, Royce, let's not be belittlling, shall we?
I do indeed have a bathtub. I had one installed -- once of those traditional Chinese all wooden hot-soak types. It's just great.
And for your male, over-50 years old Ossie information, watermelon juice is great for the skin. It contains a great deal of nutrients, minerals, etc., etc that act very positively on the skin.
mArtiAn:
So what do you do with the watermelon shell, Belle? I've got a beauty tip I gave to my brother's ex-wife: Half a hollowed out watermelon and put it on your head. This gives new life and a wonderful sheen to ageing hair. Then get five bananas, chop them in half and place one half over each finger and your thumbs. This will freshen your skin and make it look ten years younger.
God knows whether any of that's true, I just liked picturing her doing it in front of the telly of an evening.
belle_watson:
Martian, honey child, lambie pooh, I really do like you so much but good sweet corn fritters, you are a tad on the primitive side. Well, maybe just more than a tad, my sweetest.
mArtiAn:
Primitive? Moi? Nothing of the sort, I have all my loin-cloths imported from Italy.
royceH:
Wasn't being belittling Belle. Just never heard of a bathtub in China. You having one installed....I tips me lid to you, and you are indeed formidable!
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Cadbury or Rittersport chocolate with a wine chaser. Lots. Oh, and homemade buttered popcorn. And Modern Family.
fajitas or tacos.
Ashita76:
grilled mantou, with yangrouchuan and green olives and tzakiki sauce
Salmon (self-made) pastas in cream with real cheese.
That I cool myself.
With mojito, self grown lemons and mint.
China makes you discover how what we consider simple dishes are actually quite sophisticated.
xinyuren:
ya, 'specially since you will have to seed the salmon yourself and wait for them to grow up. same thing with the lemon tree. Hope you're not too hungry
TMaster:
Skip a period, pay for the rest of your life.
I indeed grow my salmon on a salmon tree gentlemen. Hard part is watering upstream.
i guess it is real American,,,, but heck, maybe Brits, Canucks, Aussies too... i dunno...
Grilled Cheese sandwich.
the opposite of fancy I know.... but my Mom made these for us when we were kids.... still luv 'em to this day....
Chinito. I take a Jianbing (extra spicy, no egg, no youtiao) home, and add refried beans & chipolte tabasco sauce. Goes well with a snifter of Agavales (cheap tequila, but very good. 100% de agave).
Unless it's a particularly bad Bad China Day... then, Wild Turkey.
diverdude1:
u grow up around Mexico? I grew up South of the Nueces...
Mateusz:
I moved around a good bit, but my childhood was mostly around San Diego. I was raised on Mexican food (or the US version of Mexican food).
diverdude1:
I was at the opposite end of the Mex border.. just surprised when I hear anyone who knows what Agave is...
I did some training over on Coronado.... good times in SD....
Mateusz:
Ah, I see. I only traveled south of the the border once or twice.
I never gave it much thought until I started to appreciate tequila. The difference between mixtos and 100 de agave is like the difference between blended scotch vs. single malt.
A glass of red wine, bread, and Camenbert cheese. To me, it's the meal of the Gods, and it's about the same price. The cheap version is bread, pickled olives and some Porto wine.
I tried making chilli and learned that you can't cook bean with tomatoes, the acid prevents the beans from softening, EVER. And you can't buy good tomato sauce or tomatoes.
I like the little egg bread with shaved almonds(not sure i the are every where) with Skippy peanut butter. If I fill up on bread, then I dont have to try and eat as much chicken feet or other garbage that I get served.
MissA:
Where are you? Even in Xinjiang we could get canned tomato and tomato sauce... it was pricey but totally worth it.
TedDBayer:
I later found crappy spagetti sauce and there are no good tomatoes in China
mArtiAn:
That's what I use, simple old Dolmio. Like I said, it's not the genuine article, but I like it.
royceH:
Hey Miss A.....Never found canned tomatoes in my city in Xinjiang. Sometimes there's baked beans but they're not real.
MissA:
Royce, if you're in Urumqi, give the Youhao (sp? it's been so long!) near the People's Square a go.
They had all the stuff we couldn't find anywhere else - a selection of cheese, some proper sauces, olive oil, cereal, proper milk, spices... a condiment aisle where I actually knew what half the shit was. Seventh heaven - but you did have to grab stuff when it was there, because their supply lines didn't seem great and when they ran out of something it could take ages to be replaced.
In order for there to be comfort food there has to be edible food.
I have yet to find any.
Scotch on the rocks, with big MCristo. I like 'smoking&drinking' comforts. Goose feather pillow, too.
That's 'million' years old thread. Get life 'spider'.
Anything TexMex. Nachos, fajitas, burritos, you name it. I've gotten quite handy at making it myself, since all the "Mexican" restaurants here are a. crap and b. overpriced.
If not TexMex, then fettuccine al carbon.
And booze, so much booze. When I first came over, I was astonished by the drinking and smoking among the expats. Now I understand that this is truly the healthiest responce to dealing with idiots 24-7. That, and the air will kill you, anyway.
Anything TexMex. Nachos, fajitas, burritos, you name it. I've gotten quite handy at making it myself, since all the "Mexican" restaurants here are a. crap and b. overpriced.
If not TexMex, then fettuccine al carbon.
And booze, so much booze. When I first came over, I was astonished by the drinking and smoking among the expats. Now I understand that this is truly the healthiest responce to dealing with idiots 24-7. That, and the air will kill you, anyway.