i have had some amazing amazing food while i have been out here, especially in the past few weeks.....so i thought i would share some of it with you....
China - well, we didnt eat an awful lot in china as the food stalls, while i am sure are absolutely clean, put me off when the sellers spit on the floor...ewwww....but that is a chinese thing, but it just put me right off. one thing we had in shanghai was roast sweet potao, and watching the locals eating it, we saw that it didnt matter that the seller had dirty hands as they didnt eat the skin! they ripped off the top, added butter and black pepper and tucked in, and i must say, it was loverly! we also had pecking duck in pecking (which is now known as beijing, but it doesnt sound the same if i say i had pecking duck in beijing!). it was very similar to at home actually, exept the pancakes were a lot thinner and the sauce a little spicier. the duck however melted in your mouth. it was amazing (that was also the night that we nearly got abducted by the chinese mafia! hey ho! )
Thailand - well, what can you say about thailand except pad thai, spring rolls and roti! Pad thai is made by the street vendors (and all the restaurants too, but the best is from the street vendors on koh sahn road) and you have your choice of noodle (thin is best) which is fried in a wok with egg and chicken (or veg) usually with msg added, which is probs what makes it so amazing. add a little sweet chilli sauce...woohoo....then you have the freshly made spring rolls, chopped up with a little sweet chilli sauce....then, to top it all off you have the roti, which are thin crepes, with chopped up banana inside, rolled up and then chopped up and topped with condensed milk and chocolate...BLISS! all three area vailable along kohn sahn, so you shop, eat and drink your way down thin road. and people still ask me why i love it so much!
Vietnam - the local dish in vietnam is pho (pronounced fu - like fur but dropping the 'r'
. its rice noodled in a soup with chiken or beef or veg, sprinkled with fresh mint and correander and with a squeeze of fresh lime juice. i didnt take to it at first, but when i was freezing cold in vinh and a lady had a steaming pan by the side of the road, my need for sustinance took over, and it was amazing. she showed me that too eat it you take your chop sticks and get some noodles, which you then wind onto your spoon and schnaffle up! the little squeeze of lime makes all the differance, and add to that a hot strong coffee with sweet condensed milk at the bottom, and boy, you are certainly warmed up for sure!
Cambodia - at first we didnt eat a lot of khmer food, but when we got the hang of it, clare and i have been schnaffling amok at every opportunity! mum first had amok in phnom penh and she loved it so much that we decided that we must taste it, and we tried it in several places but it has never looked like mums, but each time it has been frackign amazing. amok is basically fish (or sometimes chikcen) cooked in coconut milk with lime juice and sometimes nuts and other bits and bobs. its a little sweet and crunchy and full of amazing tastes......YUMMY!
other than that, when clare and i arrived at siem reap last night we found the funky munky had a sunday roast on. and since the restaurant is owned by a brit, it was done properly. it was amazing. but since clare and i have been sharing meals, we were utterly stuffed and rolled ourselved down the road to bed. (whereupon we found a mouse in our room, but thats another story for another day!)
hope i havnt made you too hungry!
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