NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:58:39 +0100 Message-ID: Path: Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu uk.food+drink.chinese:2679 <snip> > >saw my nephew a few years ago, he had a battery operated lantern that had a > >selection of noise effects & songs & had multi coloured disco lights > > Oh, that sounds fun! Just the right side (ie talking-point-tacky > rather than crap-tacky) of tackiness. Oh if you love tacky toys & stuff, you'll love the toys they've got these days. On my last visit to my nephews, he showed me his battery operated dolphin then promptly switched it on & place it in the koi pond & had it swimming with the koi carps. > I've tried that once or twice; aiming straight down onto the plate. > > Here are links to mine : > > Not a plate of food, but the crabs we picked are in this shot :-) > East coast, Singapore > http://www.fototime.com/51AFE12B4DF1ABC/standard.jpg > > Aboriginal food > Wulai Village, Taipei County, Taiwan > http://www.fototime.com/BA36DAA8F8F87F2/standard.jpg > > Fish market stall > Tamsui (Danxue?), Taiwan > http://www.fototime.com/3360BD22E7D74A3/standard.jpg > > Korean Hotpot > Cafe, Taipei, Taiwan > http://www.fototime.com/4BF51EBE4A41BAE/standard.jpg > > Sashimi plate > Japanese restaurant, Singapore > http://www.fototime.com/C2594B75E097B8A/standard.jpg Great pics, i love them all esp. the seafood market stall in Taiwan. When i have time, i might get a Yahoo group started so people can upload their pics there. Anyone interested? or suggestions for another way of doing it? > I remember first going to Wong Kei around 18 years ago when I was > still at school. I always bought a plate of "chicken rice" which was > cold soya chicken on rice. All my friends (who, at that time were > English - as am I) stared at me as if I was an alien, and the staff > would always try to dissuade me from ordering it. I ordered it, not > because I was a connoisseur of Chinese food, but because it was cheap! I like the bit when you said the staff would always try & dissuade you! LOL. Didn't they always warn you before that it's cold meat & rice etc. i guess many people having it the first time would complain saying.... Hey this dish isn't cooked or it's cold... but yes, WongKei is pretty well known & students & late night shift workers etc. frequent the place. I haven't been for quite a while. Maybe i'll have to pop in for my NgaoLamTongHor soon. > Now, I tend to prefer Crispy Duck (Wardour St) for the one-plate > dishes; or Yeung Cheng (Shaftsbury Ave) if I want a cleaner > environment. If there's a few of us then I'll go to the other Yeung > Cheng (Lisle St) and get their "soup, rice, one main dish each - for 3 > or more" special and cheap menu. Thanks for this tip THE Adrian. I'll check these places out the next time i down there. > For dimsum I used to go to Jade Garden (Wardour St) but Gerard's > Corner (Gerard's St) has really improved recently and now I tend to go > there. If I'm feeling flush, then Royal China (Bayswater) is my > favourite dimsum place. The Poons in Whietley's is not bad but we haven't been recently, what we use to order here was the yam croquettes(WuKok) & these were the Best i've had in the UK. Better than Royal China imho. > Outside of china town, there's a famous place on Bayswater (forgotten > the name, opposite-ish Royal China) for roast duck rice. And it is > good. Also, "yi ban" (which my elementary mandarin translates as > one/first class; but they don't use those characters so I guess it's > rubbishy pinyin efforts from cantonese) in docklands. Expensive, but > good and modern. Not been to YiBan or even heard of it before, but with a Mandarin name like that, does it serve Beijing/Shanghainese cuisine? or is it still Cantonese cuisine? btw this might help http://zhongwen.com/ for all your PinYing problems & general Mandarin. The duck place in Bayswater is called 4 Seasons. I was there last night buying 1/2 a duck & charsiu+siuyuk. Still the best Cantonese roast duck for me. > >Did you remember a restaurant called Jen opposite LoonFung supermarket on > >gerard st. it closed down a few years ago. it had good roast duck in there > >while it lasted. > > Nope - don't know that one. Used to go to a place on > whatever-the-street-is-called which joins Shaftsbury Avenue to Gerard > St in the centre, for roast meat &rice. It changed ownership, and my > friend stopped working there (and hence I lost my discount!), so I > stopped going. I've never eaten on that small street let alone walk down it i think? strange as it may sound, i've always entered Gerard st. by either ends where the 'gates' are but never through this small street in the middle. Jen now has a small eat & go in that little square or space where the fishmongers are. They're on the corner where the alleyway that leads to Charing X st. is. Haven't been in there so don't know if it's any good. Maybe you or someone can check it out for us ; ) the main restauarnt on Gerard St. use to be very good, good duck (take-aways & other restaurants use to buy from them) & the house special menu had horfun cooked with egg white gravy, which made the whole thing really silky smooth that it was impossible to pick up with chopsticks (even for us Chinese!) & we often had to use the porcelain spoons & do the scoop & slurp! DC.
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