Food

rule #237 for successful living in a series: never eat anything "seafood flavored"

Just back from 5 days Alicante. I am twice the size I was a week ago!

So much ham, olive oil, rice, wine, beer and ofcourse the best mojito ever at el Coscorron.

Also finally had a Spit & Roast fried chicken bap with hot sauce on the weekend, strong, very strong, great way to end my 6 months of bingeing, wanna get hench for summer, can't be harshing out the pool with my belly flap on Napa

Wicked, glad you enjoyed it and nice to meet you briefly. Classic Car Boot was a lot of fun.

I just made myself a bowl of fish tea for the first time... Add sachet to 500ml of water, a bit of freshly chopped ginger, garlic and ginger and a thinly sliced potato and it turns out delicious... Super cheap lunch, I think they're three for a quid in the cash and carry... Nom...

Things that are 'fish flavour' are never a good thing ...

I fully agree

no way fish flavour is great.
those scampi crisps? Japanese stock powder?
fish sauce? Shrimp crackers? All awesome.

It's roast chicken day y'all,

Cock soup > Fish tea

Peacock > Fish pee

Lamb chops in soy/shaoxing/chilli/sesame oil marinade, cucumber and carrot pickle, kim chi, rice.

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Peacock > Fish pee

Immediately forced to Google "can you eat peacock"

Imagine somehow an offence - as swan is to Queen Liz, perhaps peacock is property of... Liberace?

The buddhist temple in my hometown had peacocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Ten_Thousand_Buddhas#Wildlife)

Apparently they "symbolise the transmutting of desire into the path of liberation." I think they aren't super into you eating any animals, but probably making a grand peacock dinner would especially bum them out.

^ I cant imagine buddhists eating any type of meat...

^^^ Never heard of kimchi. Some kind of fermented vegetable dish? Whats it like?

do you even korea?

Chorizo Scottish Egg off Broadway Market = strong

^ are scottish eggs always once-fried-now-cold? I had one at the same market and it was cold, damp, and stale. The egg inside was good, but the rest was ungood.

In other news: after a month in customs, this has arrived all the way from Japan.

Not exactly gourmet, but the luxury of, in times of laziness, being able to whip up a quick tarako soba is rad. I regret only ordering 10 packets. I also wish I had been able to find the spicy kind.

They dont have em at your local asian superstore?

No, not here. And I have looked. They don't even have them at either of the Japanese-only stores.

It would have been cheaper to have my father in law send them from San Francisco but the idea of them being sent from Japan to the US and then from the US to EU does my head in.

I might know a guy in Japan who may be able to send stuff over for good price. However, I don't know if he's willing to and I'm not sure how to contact him since I deleted my FB and he hasnt been active for a while now on a community forums...

^ are scottish eggs always once-fried-now-cold? I had one at the same market and it was cold, damp, and stale. The egg inside was good, but the rest was ungood.

In other news: after a month in customs, this has arrived all the way from Japan.

Not exactly gourmet, but the luxury of, in times of laziness, being able to whip up a quick tarako soba is rad. I regret only ordering 10 packets. I also wish I had been able to find the spicy kind.

This stuff they sell in Japan Centre then?

http://www.japancentre.com/items/sb-spaghetti-sauce-cod-roe-namafuumi-spaghetti-sauce-tarako

hork

Picked up some kimchi and Chinese sausage at the big Asian supermarket in E&C today, quite a cool place...

They sell bahn mi for £3.50 in the cafe/diner out the front, they still hadn't had their bread delivery when I, foaming at the mouth, went in for one at 1pm...

Massive tease, I'm still nursing a huge bahn mi hard on... I'm going back tomorrow...

that restaurant out front is sadly often empty which is a shame as it's really good - not sure they can compete with the Dragon Castle juggernaut next door.

For some reason I thought it was gonna be bigger, still lots of good stuff in there tho'...

Lori wants bibimbap, I need to do my research and get that happening this week...

Love both those places now after recent discovery. Over did the dim sum last time at the castle. Mmmm.