Chinese cooking
Today's objectives :- Wake up early
- Go to pick up my jacket
- do a washing machine
- clean my appartment
- play ping pong with Damien
- buy a cutting board and a glass
- learn how to cook chinese.
I woke up at 11am... oups... let's erase the two first things on the list... my jacket will wait until next week...
Oups... no more washing powder... I went down, bought some and here it was! One thing done!
Already too late to clean.... let's go playing ping pong with Damien!!! (I won 1 set!!!)
I bought a cutting board in the supermarket next to the "ping pong stadium" (I don't remember the real name). Cleaned my appartment, and ironed my new shirts. (to get them ready for the pictures I'm gonna put here next week). And finally, here comes the interesting part : Cooking chinese!!! (cooking is already exceptionnal for me here)
Iris came to my place, after buying some veges and a fish (that was alive a minute earlier). We also bought some cooking stuff like salt, pepper and chinese aromates...
First : Cleaning the fish! Ok that is like in France... Brutal!
Then clean the veges and cut them! Ok til then, I'm still good! I can do that, not many differences with normal cooking, is there? Maybe on the number of garliks... 3 for 2 people eating... Tasty!
Now begins the "cooking chines" part! Put a lot of "ola"
in the pan. Some what? Ola! Oups, sorry, I'm still not used to the accent... Ok, I put some oil in the pan. Greacy!Weird way to cook fish isn't that? The fish is too big and falls in parts... not a problem! we put it appart once it is fried. (with all it's pieces) I lern that it is better when it stil has the head... Crispy!
Here come the veges! (why didn't we cook thembefore the fish? Knowing we would use the same oil...) I don't tell the names of the veges cause I don't know them... sorry... Add at least half a pound of salt to give taste... Salty!
A wonderful come back of the fis... Whaaaat? Is that the fish? Yes, look, there is some bones here and there! Evolutive!
We put some nice things in it (vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper, ginger, garlic, soy sauce and a very chinese white stuff) It changes color! woaw! "The taste must go inside the fish so that we cover the strong taste of the fish! Otherwise it is not good, this one is too big!" Ok... that's why chinese fish and chinese chicken sometimes taste the same? Ok, I taste! (cool shaving isn't it? it is necessary to get the "adventurous looking guy" diploma that allowed me to try the chinese cooking) Yummy!
Now, we just have to wait for the rice to come... Ready!
I'm making fun of it, but it was nice! (maybe a littl... lot too salty) It was very nice too see how to use this big pan and those things people call veges that they sell on the ground of my street... Thanks Iris, We'll do that again!
posted by Quentin @ 9/03/2006 04:40:00 PM
1 Comments:
I could tell you one of the veggies you used was eggplant, the purple one. Of course, you cook fish in oil first before you add the veggie. That is common sense...... Just like you cook the chicken before you add veggie...... And salty?! The lady who taught you how to cook couldn't posssibly be a native Shanghai resident, no shanghai food is salty..... Anyway, I am glad that you had a blast. Too bad you are coming back to houston afterwards, so I can test your cooking skills....
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