吃喝在台湾 I

台湾国粹：臭豆腐

士林夜市的。看起来很粗lei。闻起来还不是顶级臭， 只要有耐心在前面待个5分钟，就可以嗅出其中的奥妙-臭中带香，而且是比榴莲还要高的境界。

怕的人只要保持3尺，自然有神明挡住臭豆腐的魔臭渗透力。上图是在店家锅里头熬着的，下图是配上鸭血的。靠，简直色‘香’味俱全。金红色的汤汁，闪闪发光红油都让人忘了他的臭。配上鸭血只会让人心跳加速。。。一句话：tripple killssssssssssss. 在冬天，瓢那一勺汤，甚至比Johny Walker Blue 还要暖身， 还要舒服，而且后劲也不输。

可惜的是他的沾酱稍微称不上。个人认为如果加以研发，配上马来的sambal酱，肯定可以摆上台湾国宴的menu. 还有一个想法， 不知用上日本豆腐会不会更有亲和。至少让那些怕丑的食客一个机会，品尝臭豆腐的机会。

ps: 如果用日本豆腐，千万在取名时要加以注意，要不然小日本可能会大咧咧宣传说 ‘臭日本豆腐’是他们的，而且永不为他们的行为道歉。所以希望有朝一日在我的建议被采纳时，大家务必提防。

MY BEST MATES.........Part 1

Write less and let the photos "do the talking"....

Popular Vietnamese Restaurant

- Speciality type One
Egg Soda

Egg White, cream soda & Bandung

Coconut Juice

The flesh is thinly sliced & textured like "jelly"

-Speciality type Two

Seafood Salad

Seafood mixed with glass noodles, onions, lettuces,mint leaf etc. Taste spicy & sour. It's a very good appetiser

-Speciality type Three

"DIY" cold rolls

Step 1 - Soften the rice paper in the hot water provided. Lay the soften rice paper on the plate
Step 2 - Cut out the skewer sugarcane prawns & pork rolls in pieces
Step 3 - Put salad & Noodles & cut up sugarcane prawns or pork
Step 4 - Put the sauce over it
Step 5 - Fold the sides & roll everything up

Something like below??

Still, we will have some bad example too (for god sake, it's not me)

Miang Kiam from Danny's Thai


Betel leaf served with shredded coconut,paste, freshly diced cut lime, onions & grilled prawn


Important note : Wrap all ingredients and eat it together. You will feel "layers" of texture & taste.
When you put the miang kam into the mouth, you will 1st feel the fresh, soft betel leaf at the outer layer. Once you have your 1st bite, you will feel the crispy texture from the shredded coconut and a nice blend with the paste.
When you have the 2nd bite and if you happen to bite on the freshly cut lime, it brings you to another layer of fresh taste and plus the sweetness from the onions.

I REALLY LOVE IT!!!!

If you are interested to know where the places are, feel free to leave a comment and we will provide you the details!!

KUEH CHAP pty' ltd'

KUEH CHAP Pt.ltd.

BEST in SINGAPOREcopied from http://eatthewalk.blogspot.com/2005/12/guan-kee-kueh-chap.html
Toa Payoh, Hup Huat Coffee Shop

& KUCHINGcopied from, http://www.deliciousasianfood.com/2007/08/02/kueh-chap/
Psst'!, I'm not sure which stall this picture is taken, but it look like from one of those Siang Siang Fang (Food Court, cos they always serve kueh chap in RED bowls, but most other stall do that as well (..") )

Kueh Chap (粿汁 guǒ zhī, Koay Chap), Kueh = the thick rice noodle, Chap = soup, is a very popular hokkien (NON HALAL) dish in Singapore and Kuching, it mostly contain the "kueh" which is the thick square rice noodle in soup, and with some mix of pork belly(fatty pork), pork intestine, pork ear, egg and "Tau Pok" (Dried spongy bean curd), sometimes u get some other stuff in there as well like pork heart, liver, kidney, tongue (all of those other pork spare parts, that's what i call it)& etc, normally all the pork mix is place on top of the noodle soup, or serve in another plate

Other place like Johor, K.L. and Penang do sell it as well, but some have a different variation/ combination with duck meat instead or even chicken.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
You get it in ADELAIDE as well...
Home COOKED....... Wahahahaha.......
Center: Pork Mix Platter
Top left: Chinese crullers (Yao Tiu)
Bottom Left: Soft Bean curd "Tao Pok"
Top Center: Belacan and home "mix"chili sauce
Top right: Pot of thick "Chap"!!
Right Center: Another Pork Mix Platter
Bottom Right: Bowls of Kueh Tao Soup.

After stranded in Adelaide for a few years... everyone starts craving for all the good foods we missed so so SO much back home! So in order to fill up everyone taste buds... i cooked up this special meal for our regular Saturday's lunch gathering!

All the Pork "parts" is cooked with spices and dark soya sauce, "Pat Lo" they call it in Hokkien, slow cooked until it get all the flavour and colors. For the soup noodle, the noodles are square cut thick rice noodle (kueh tiao), can be brought folded & uncut in most Asian grocery, the soup for the noodle are diluted from the soup base of the pork mix, with a touch of some deep fried onion oil.

Its a bit hard to get all the innards and spare parts in this part of the world (Aus), they do sell it in most Asian Groceries, but it's quite limited.


The Kueh Chap Mix Pork Platter, the most important plate.
Clockwise from top: kidneys, intestines, boiled eggs, pork ears
Center: pork hearts.
Topped with some Fried onion.

Another Platter
Clockwise: Lean Pork, more intestine's, fatty pork on the left.
topped with some Fried onion.


The "Kueh Tiao" without the "Tieng"
Halfway through preparing the noodle soup, before adding the soup. The noodle stirred with some "Pork oil" (a MUST HAVE), just like a touch of olive oil to your pasta! *the trick is to deep fried all the pork FAT and then replace it with fried onion, so people would think it is just a DEEP FRIED ONION OIL! but it's NOT!!!

The People Enjoying the Feasts!
"The DT's Gang"
from left to right: Kueh tiao, pork intestine(in black shirt),
boiled egg(the one with cap), pork heart, tao pok (in pink)& pork ear(standing)

Last but not least......

The One that got Slaughtered!!!
picture copied from, http://www.flickr.com/photos/alltheaces/67904915/

pity him....!!!!

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An Usual Saturday.....

Vietnamese food was 1st introduced to my life when I came to Adelaide. I hardly recall having V. food back in Singapore. I am always under the impression that there are alot of vietnamese people living in adelaide and most of them are grown up here & majority speak cantonese. So...I did a search as follow:

Extracted from some website
"The population of Adelaide consists of students, overseas-born Adelaideans and the local inhabitants. The population of Adelaide consists of a unique mixture of English, Irish, German, Vietnamese, Italian, Greek and Polish people. As per statistical data, 38% of the people are English, 34% are Australians, 3.5% were Italian, 1.2% are Vietnamese, 0.7% Polish and German, while the Greeks consist of 2.3% of the population"

This explains why there are so many Vietnamese resturants around and this lead to our usual Saturday Lunches.

Drink 1- Filtered White Coffee OR "Qing Bo Liang" @ $3

Entree -Cold Roll @ $2 each

HOT ENTREE LIST - The cold roll

Ingredients includes of rice vermicelli noodles, cabbage,mint leaves, prawns and pork. Wrapped all the ingredients up using the rice paper and not forgetting the sauce.

Bottom Left - Salads for Noodles Soup Dishes Mints, peppermint leaves, cabbage, Beansprout & Banana flower thinly sliced

Bottom Right - Dry Chilli Flakes it's a MUST for me!!

Our Favourite Dish - Spicy pork/beef noodles with rice noddles

Left - Paige's Normal Order with Onions & greens

Right - George's Special Order with No greens at all, MEAT only

We called it "Sub Siu Mai"

Left photo - Minced pork paste cooked in tomato soup with flavour

Right photo - Dip the "you tiao" into the soup

I suddenly miss the Vietnamese Bread roll! I think I am going to have it this weekend !!

How Booze Attached to Our Life

Booze has rooted in our late night parties ever since Sept 2007. It was the first and very special occasion that we celebrated - CrappyPoh's Birthday. I could still remember vividly the few hours that we 12 people spent in Elvis Room, Buddha Bar. Johnie Red, Canadian Club, Tequila, Smirnoff Vodka... had caused few drunkards went completely passed out. One went missing somewhere at a 5 Stars hotel washroom, One thrown up on the carpet while hand holding a bin, One was yelling and screaming while singing songs. (Ahem* Sorry if i missed out anything classic?) Million thanks to our Aiders for sending these drunkards home safely. Despite having experienced the terrible hangovers the next couple of days, it was indeed a memorable night and taught us a valuable lesson - WE SHOULD DRINK MORE!


Here we continue our booze life with :

Dennis's 21st birthday party ( Oct 2007)...

7 shots of Jegamisters!
Mission accomplished...

Jacob's Birthday Party (April 2008) ...

Our Ah 3! A person who can't live without alcohols and ciggies...


Booze makes us think creatively... Beer in Trophy

Ah ha! Finally he's drunk with his XX sign.

Judy's Birthday Party (April 2008)....Booze gives us the guts... Chivas + Oyster

Booze drives us nuts...



Booze gives us witty acting... Bacardi 151 with 99% alcohol

Leanne's Birthday Party (June 2008)...

Booze creates a lousy drinker among us... Wohooo! She got inebriated by this Lamborghini.

Dennis's Farewell Party (July 2008)...
Booze trains us consume higher level of alcohols... We're drinking JUGS instead of shots!

Welcoming Peter's lover, Michelle to Adelaide (Sept 2008)...and welcome our new members - Jasmine, Peter, Charlene.

Her high consumption of alcohol was astonishing! Don't play play...

Booze makes us sing with all our hearts... 我们的爱~~~~~
Booze can make things worse...

Last but not least,


Booze strengthens our friendship!

* Bear in mind, We are not binge drinkers.

New to the famillies!!! Coming soon

early this year, a phone family is cross breed with a walkman, then

another family is cross breed with a camera.

then A few months ago, the race for new born happens, everyone just

keep cross breeding!!! Apple family release their cross breed

between a mobile phone and an i-pod, the i-phone is born... with all

the User/Finger friendly feature, happy stereo music targeting all

Casual users...

but the same time across the Street, another cross breed happen

between a mobile phone and a laptop, which give birth to a Diamonds,

for the HTC families the breedings continues with a few of more

brothers and sisters within weeks apart. (Hyper HTC mom and dad,

(..").....) with all the feature from Words to Eexcels for Business

user, and google to gadgets for hi tech nerds. leaving their laptop

behind at home....

both the Apple and HTC are in thier own world, build for different

people!!

then probably HTC's DAD got bored and found interested in their

Apples' neighbour .....(censored)........ (hahaha... J.K.)
And out of the HTC brother and sisters, the newest from the family

is yet to be born.... hahaha


HTC Touch HD™ T8282
coming soon this few months
Links




IS THIS THE PHONE THAT HAVE IT ALL???

-With touch screen Display as wide as an "i-phone", but better

resolution (the names say's it all)

-5 megapixel color camera with auto focus... as good as "LG viewty"

-stylish/bold enough to bring it to a Ball

-HSDPA/WCDMA, and wifi.... got all the network connection u need

from a "Blackberry"... to get connected, making calls, txt, e-mail,

online, youtube,

-GPS maps....

-Expansion Slot for microSD™ memory card (SD 2.0 compatible)

-and most of all, it runs on Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional. so it

more like having ur own laptop at the size of ur palm.

so whoever have not spend their money buying a new smartphone,

berry, iphone or HTC..... keep ur $$$$ in ur pocket. this is one

baby to look out for... if it is as good as it sound........

what happened to OZ dollars??

THIS MORNING I WAS CHECKING CURRENCY RATES and...

Singapore dollars is stronger than Australia dollars now!! I remember when I 1st left Singapore for Adelaide to study which is like 6 years ago, the currency rate is around 1-1 and my dearest Siu Ling is so delighted that I choose Australia. Compared to my 2 other brothers studying in States at that time, I am considered a lighter burden to her.

Since then, aussie dollars started to grow stronger and most recently, like 3 months back, aussie dollars hit 1 -1.37, almost on par with US dollars. I was thinking that it will be great cos I will feel I earn more and convincing myself that it's a good choice to work in Adel than going back to SG.

BUT!!! LOOK at this now....However, I doubt it will stop me from spending when I am back in SG or stop me from enjoying my Holidays in US this Dec ...then I can foresee myself next Jan as a super Broke person...

Everyone who is earning aussie dollars, let's pray hard the aussie dollars will grow soon & stronger!!

Anyway I will be posting some entries on our "food" stuff soon. Ya..real soon.

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST
Count every ' F ' in the following text :

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY ?
WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !

Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.


The reasoning behind is further down.

The brain cannot process 'OF'.

Incredible or what ? Go back and look again !!
Anyone who counts all 6 'F's' on the first go is a genius.


O lny srmat poelpe can raed this.
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the first and last ltteer be in the rgh it pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this psas it on !!

HERE I COME - crappypoh

THE CONNECTION

We left our Countries and began our new adventure in Australia. Why the hell we choose Adelaide out from Sydney, Melbourne, Perth..god knows??

We met each other while working part time and developed friendship throughout countless gossips & complaints about the customers.

The 1st guy who wrote the 1st post is "pc_nobody - Peter". I guess his passion beside his "meimei"will be CARS. He is those typical kind that 人还没到, the Boom Boom sound from his car has already caused sound pollution!

The 2nd guy who wrote 華語版 is George. His passion will includes football games,delicious delicacies & his red wine and of course bragging his 华文能力 which he did in his post.

I am crappypoh- paige. I am the youngest, I speak the softest, I am the shortest, I do not eat as much as them, I am the most hardworking one.....oh and I weigh the lightest.

Topics representative- Food, Music, All Entertainments

Hobbies representative - How to lose weight & Whisky

Remaining team members includes of Leanne, Judy..Special guest includes of Dennis, Stefi,Elise.... New Recruitment open to DT staff....

Stay tunned.....