What was the last thing you Ate/Drank/What are you Eating/Drinking/General Food

[cheebacheeba]

So...we had some chicken...by the time it came out of the poaching liquid stock, the chicken was slightly separating itself, the thighs/legs came away from the breast. Put the chicken under a grill for a bit to crisp up the skin, it slightly caramelized due to the stock it'd been in...pretty nice.

I served it with some rice noodles I bought at the night markets in Sydneys Chinatown, on once a week.
They were steamed rolled rice noodles in a spicy satay style sauce.
I reheated them gently in a pan and added some of the poaching liquid to reconstitute the sauce a little. SO nice. Wish I'd had them fresh.

The reason I didn't have it fresh, well that's to do with last night as well.
As I said we visited the once a week Asian night markets in Chinatown...these are essentially uh, semi-flea-markets with a LOT of great "street food".
The noodles...well, I saw them and HAD TO get some, even though I'd filled up pretty well.

I started out the night with a couple of coronas at Happy hour at a place near our harbour which is quite close to Chinatown, the lady had a sparkling white then a strawberry cocktail of some sort. Then I had something called a "pure blonde" beer which is I guess trying to imitate something like a german beer. Not bad. Pretty crisp.

Walked over to Chinatown, had a seat at a place that was advertising "Sake-Bombs" which I found out were glasses of Stella Artois beer which I quite like, with shots of sake sunk into them, like a depth charge.
The mix, I was dreading, but...wow...the effect was nice and they actually tasted good. I will be getting more.

We also shared a serving of 4 pieces of octopus takoyaki at the same placewhich was quite good - I mainly got this because one of the two friends that was with us hadn't tried them before.

If you want to know what takoyaki are, read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki

Look here:
http://travelsort.com/blog/must-try-...e-world-part-2
Its the forth one down.


Onto the street markets then.
SO crowded. But, while I usually hate crowds I make an exception for Chinatown, I'm just "used to it" there.

First we stopped to get some dragonbeard candy.
entertaining video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCLYieehzGs

Love these things.

Then I had some chinese flat grilled meat called Rou Gan "http://www.google.com.au/search?safe=off&hl=en&biw=1920&bih=955&q=rou%20gan &um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=rojqUaePIKTuiA eo7oHQAQ"
with a little honey and chilli.

TAKOYAKI again.
This time from a vendor there at the markets with 8-9 guys operating about 16 grills all around. you could just tell that these would be incredible.
Myself and the chick got a pack of 8. Some prawn, some octupus and some crab. They were served with some kewpie doll mayo, some sesame seeds, something like hoisin sauce, some chopped spring onion and shaved bonito flakes that were so thin they blew in the wind.
The ones we had first were "nice", these things though, they were a work of fucking art.
They had their operation SO sorted...we ordered and got our order among 6 other orders, correctly, and within 4 minutes.
I cannot put into words how good they were.

We actually went into an arcade and shared a meal in there too...it had chicken, crunchy green beans, it was hot, had steamed rcie and was served with a chicken/corn soup with silken egg.
It was nice. Unremarkable. But yeah we wanted to sit for a bit and eat something "proper".

Bit more of a walk around and then onto the chinese bakery side-store for emperor puffs, which are kind've like a custard filled bite-sized vanilla cake?
They drum so many of these things out and they were so popular that they permanently opened a side-window JUST to sell these one item...and there is ALWAYS a line of no less than 10 people. Last night of course was no exception.
While the wife waited I went for a wonder to one of the food stalls we'd missed...that's the hard thing, it's not like a hit and miss market this one, it's like EVERY motherfucking place has at least 3-4 things that make you want them SO bad, and the smell is intoxicating.
I was intending to buy a pork belly steamed bun, when I saw those noodles I mentioned AGES ago get served to someone.
I had to have them.
I was totally full at the time, but I needed them. So tonights dinner they became.

Went home on the train, had a beer on the way back.
Nice night out.

[newb]

Originally Posted by cheebacheeba

I wonder how long this threads gone untouched?

Anyways, today I had poached eggs on toast with spinach. The toast had a layer of black olive tapenade.

For the last couple of hours, we've had two chickens slow cooking submersed in an asian style liquid stock.

The wife is (hm, just realised I was not sure if I made that particular announcement here yet...) .

I don't believe you did make that announcement ....congrats Bro:)

[cheebacheeba]

Thanks man, yeah been about a year and a half now.

[hammerfan]

Originally Posted by cheebacheeba

Thanks man, yeah been about a year and a half now.

Congratulations!

[cheebacheeba]

Thankyou ma'am ;)
We were wed on our 13th anniversary together, kept the date the same.
Just a couple family members, a few mutual friends.
Non-churchy commonlaw affair.
Went out to a German tavern for some excellent food and drink, caught a ferry at night, spent the night out in the city and had a hotel and breakfast.
Small, uncomplicated. Nice.
We're having another one in 2017, a "bigger" one, and hope to involve our child in that one too.


Today we went to a vietnamese restaurant/diner and shared a "bahn mi" which is essentially a bread roll with roast pork, pate, and some nice fresh salads.
Info here:
http://www.goodfood.com.au/good-food...201-2doq8.html

We also had a congee with chicken, prawns, and some tofu.

Served with kind've plain tea, I'm guessing something like green/oolong.
She had a chai latte, I had a vietnamese style iced coffee, which to me just tasted like a nice strong iced coffee - which is what I like.

[hammerfan]

That's wonderful! If I was to ever get married, that's the kind of ceremony I want. Something simple and intimate.

[hammerfan]

May as well post something related to the thread! :D

Had brown sugar oatmeal and coffee this morning.

[bamahorrorfan87]

turkey bacon and some sweet tea

[May Decay]

A food thread in a horror forum? My two favourite things!

I just ate four pieces of L&P white chocolate!

L&P is a soda drink here in New Zealand, it's lemon flavoured and the company has just teamed up with Whitakers chocolate makers and created this new crazy chocolate! It's got lemon flavoured pop rocks inside, reminiscent of the fizz in a bottle of L&P. Pretty awesome actually.

If anyone wants to taste it, I'll be happy to post you a block in return for you sending me something cool and unique from your country?

[cheebacheeba]

Hm.
I've tried both L&P and Whittakers, I like both.
Have yet to see this product here in Australia though...
Not sure what I'd send in exchange though, don't we have pretty much the same things? Though I guess our cadbury and nestle stuff sometimes has different versions..?
I don't know. I don't know what we have.


Last night we drove across to the other side of the city, to get some lebanese style flame grilled chicken. Served with pickled radishes and cucumber, soft flatbread, chips/fries, and a most excellent thoum.
We make the drive every now and then, it's so worth it.
Also got to hit up a market that specialised in arabic, indian and nepalese foods and spices, just unlike the range of the stores we have over my way. Always interesting.