Always go to a Chinese with a Chinaman!
Or at least someone who speaks Chinese. Yes, as referred to in a previous post, am temporarily living with my colleague KK from Singapore. So, we had a nice day out on Saturday, checking out the farmers market and the National Modern Art Museum. Which was excellent and well worth a return visit. I'm a big fan of modern art (or at least some of it) -- mainly because good modern art makes you think. It can also say whatever you think it says -- in the end a good painting of a landscape, although nice to look at is only ever that. I'm sure some of you will disagree.... There were some excellent new Damian Hurst things there, a series called "The last supper" where he's modified labels from pharmaceutical packets and replaced the drug names with day-to-day food items such as "Cornish Pasty". Very effective, wry statement about modern food.
Oh yeah, before returning to the chinese, it snowed here last Friday so there was some snow around still Saturday. I took the camera out again and took some shots around Edinburgh, which I'll pop in a separate post.
So back to the chinese. I didn't know, but apparently a lot of chinese restaurants have a separate chinese menu. Which was offered to us as soon as we walked in. And the stuff on there is quite different to the regular english menu. So, being a bit lacking in old chinese reading I let KK order. And we have the most fantastic chinese meal I've ever had. You know I like the regular chinese banquet thing, always happy with good prawn toast and aromatic duck. But main courses always a bit of a let down. Not here. Fantastic food. Fish soup. Tofu in this amazing sauce. Roast pork and duck with a delicious orange-flavoured dipping sauce -- like nothing I've ever had in any chinese. Dim sum. So, I've decided you have to do chinese with someone who can read the chinese menu. Well, I was excited anyway. KK was quite bemused at my excitement. Maybe you are as well.
Other than that nothing much else to report. Still trying to find permanent accommodation and the car is due for MOT tomorrow. Hope it passes.
Oh yeah, before returning to the chinese, it snowed here last Friday so there was some snow around still Saturday. I took the camera out again and took some shots around Edinburgh, which I'll pop in a separate post.
So back to the chinese. I didn't know, but apparently a lot of chinese restaurants have a separate chinese menu. Which was offered to us as soon as we walked in. And the stuff on there is quite different to the regular english menu. So, being a bit lacking in old chinese reading I let KK order. And we have the most fantastic chinese meal I've ever had. You know I like the regular chinese banquet thing, always happy with good prawn toast and aromatic duck. But main courses always a bit of a let down. Not here. Fantastic food. Fish soup. Tofu in this amazing sauce. Roast pork and duck with a delicious orange-flavoured dipping sauce -- like nothing I've ever had in any chinese. Dim sum. So, I've decided you have to do chinese with someone who can read the chinese menu. Well, I was excited anyway. KK was quite bemused at my excitement. Maybe you are as well.
Other than that nothing much else to report. Still trying to find permanent accommodation and the car is due for MOT tomorrow. Hope it passes.
posted by Nick at 11:00 PM
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I have a friend who's from Wuhan province, China. There's only one restaurant he found while living in Houston (he's now in Dallas) that even came close to his standards for authentic food from home. Strangely enough, it wasn't in any of the 'standard' Chinese sections of town (though it wasn't really far from one of them). This place didn't even have an English menu available--or if it was, I never saw it. Everything was Mandarin. I ate stuff there that I've never seen anywhere else. Some of it was quite good. Some of it was merely interesting.
Stay away from the hundred year eggs, though.
Thanks Mike, I'll watch for dem eggs.
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