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Post by raymond on Dec 24, 2008 15:57:57 GMT -5
Henry,
Your mouth-watering description of cooking a pot of rice with lop cheong, lop ngok, and hom don brings back wonderful memories of Chinese comfort food at its best........substantive, delicious and sustaining........as a variation, my Mom have also steamed a piece of salted fish atop the rice when the pot of rice was nearly done.
Raymond
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Post by Woodson on Dec 24, 2008 19:52:45 GMT -5
Ah, meant to add the Chinese words: Fan Chiew 飯燋 The northern style Chinese restaurants offer Crispy Rice (鍋巴) which similar but with a thick soup and some fancy ingredients.
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Post by douglaslam on Dec 25, 2008 4:48:42 GMT -5
tyuti1668, It is sad young mothers these days don't know how to make the traditional rice meal for their babies. It is not something to be proud of. A possible excuse is that bottled gas is used for cooking not firewood, straw, twigs,or dried leaves. I prefer a kitchen that is black with soot from cooking than one clinically clean like an operating theatre. Talking about power outage, when I was in Hoiping about five years ago, we went to a restaurant in the evening for a feed. But there was no power, only candle light. We were not romantically inclined, so we went to a different venue. Apparently,it was a common occurrence. Have things improved?
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Post by douglaslam on Dec 28, 2008 5:43:37 GMT -5
IRON RICE BOWL AND COCONUT-SHELL RICE BOWL
We all know what an iron rice bowl is: it refers to job security for life whether you are a high performer or lead in the saddle bag.
Coconut-shell rice bowl may stump many of our members. I think tyuti1668, Raymond and Woodson would be no strangers. Back in the the days before plastic utensils appeared on the scene, young children were often given coconut shells as rice bowl when they started to learn to hold chopsticks and use a bowl unaided. Breakages were common, one way to reduce breakages was to use coconut shells to hold rice. I can't remember if I ever used one, but I certainly saw other kids wolfing down their meals from a coconut shell
The coconut shell is also used as a scoop for water stored in a big urn. It won't sink to the bottom.
As I look back to my childhood in China now , it is rather nostalgic and endearing to see how we used to make do and make use of everything.
Douglas
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