on top of rice: some prepared marinated kelp bowties from 99, some kimchee, some ong choi (hollow heart vegetable) i stirfried with fermented shrimp paste and garlic.
yeah, so i don't really care about presentation, and i like all my foods to be separated, so uh, it always looks bad. i bought this chicken from costco who lasted me almost a week in several reincarnations. ah, the dear soul. this was her first appearance at the dinner table. that grey mass is eggplant sauteed in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, a pizza packet of red pepper flakes, and garlic. not much to look at, but it was tasty.
i got hungry.. so i decided to have a midnight "snack" of that poor rotisserie chicken, kimchee, stircooked lotus root, and yu xiang egglant.
a meal made with leftovers. a previously frozen peach bun from someone's wedding. and some more kimchee. i have a large jar of it, and must consume it so it stops stinking up the fridge for the roomies. also needed some more veggies. kimchee's a veg! kind of. see The ABC's post. that goopy vegetable stuff had gai lan in it. i was very disappointed though.. limp and overcooked. and in goopy sauce! i hate goopy sauces!
gai lan.. chinese broccoli.. is my favorite vegetable of all time. sliced into scallop egg white fried rice and just plain boiled/pan cooked with a dribble of oyster sauce on top is the best. regular broccoli stems taste a bit like it. it's almost never on sale though =(
i stayed up most the night studying for exams. bad, i know. anyhoo, i finally went home in the morning to eat breakfast which consisted of coffee, some multigrain hot cereal, and a tin of smoked herrings before leaving immediately for school again to take a test. that's right. herrings. don't think i drank much of the coffee, but it was nice to have around smelling good and warm even though those tiny little pull-out desks barely have room for a sheet of paper. a cup of coffee is like my security blanket during crunch-time in class.
udon, gai lan with oyster sauce, kimchee, and some frozen bourbon chicken my roomate didn't like. mmm.. free protein... this was actually my second dinner that night. i'd had a can of chef boyardee beef ravioli (mm.. reminds me of elementary school hot lunches) an hour earlier b/c i was HUUUNGGRRRRYYY at school. i keep all sorts of instant food in my locker just in case, along with a can opener. i think there's also half a dozen bagels in there right now...
it's the biscuit stick man! this guy, and his band of gun-slinging brothers, traveled all the way from Hong Kong to get eaten by me. the japanese says.. bisuketto! i cannot read the chinese, alas.
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i can easily not go to the market for two weeks...
you have half a fridge to yourself, lucky. i've got a quarter of one, woe.
hi charsiubao...i happened upon your page one day a couple weeks ago after eating dim sum at emerald and was really disappointed (not unexpected), so i went online and started googling dim sum haha. it's fun looking at the pictures of the foods you eat...i love to cook, however some of my favorite foods are really simple too...funny that i eat udon, gai lan w/oyster sauce and ong choy (but my favorite is w/ fermented bean curd) all the time! i can't go 2 weeks w/o going to ranch 99 or mitsuwa though...
It seems that you're UCSD offcampus...
Your canned herring looks the best of the rest. I like canned roast eels.
kimchi looks so good, then you think about how it smells and then you don't want to eat it anymore.
jenny - hi =)
gebrannestes - mmm.. canned roast eels and canned smoked oysters are next to get on my list. and yes, i'm ucsd offcampus. i miss living in the concrete and cinderblock dorms.
kimchi doesn't smell that bad... but i have the jar sealed inside another bag to appease the roomies. does anyone else think that skunk funk resembles sesame oil?
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