Food for thoughz.!~
Monday, 22 August 2011
Another popular noodle - Dry rice noodle!!!
Different to the dry noodle, dry rice noodle use the rice noodle which has different taste with the orginal noodle like mi-goreng. Dry rice noodle is harder to cook so there is no good instant product of it. The rice noodle is well known in many different food, the most popular is Pho of Vietnamese. So do you wonder how it will taste when it is cooked like the dry noodle?The answer is so obvious, like the rice noodle with soup, the dry rice noodle can become the favorite food for many people who love to eat noodle.
For being the first time your children try their first noodle, dry rice noodle can be a better choice than dry noodle since the rice noodle is sweeter and easier to eat than the noolde. So the food can be the best choice for many children. just becareful that once your children try the food, they may want to eat it every day.
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Vietnamese rice paper rolls
- Combine chicken, cabbage, beansprouts, capsicum, mint, 1/3 cup coriander, 2 tablespoons lime juice and fish sauce in a large bowl.
- Place 1 rice paper round in a medium bowl of lukewarm water for 15 seconds or until just soft. Place on a clean tea towel or paper towel.
- Arrange 1/4 cup of the chicken mixture along the centre of rice paper round. Fold ends in and roll up firmly to enclose filling. Repeat with remaining rice paper rounds and filling. Serve with sweet chilli sauce and remaining coriander
Notes
- You will need 1/2 cup shredded cabbage.
- Rice paper rounds are a staple of Vietnamese cuisine. Made from rice starch, they're a healthier alternative to deep-fried spring rolls, and are gluten free.
- Variation: You could use cooked prawns or cooked pork fillet instead of the chicken.
Saturday, 20 August 2011
Shan Cheng Hot Pot - Haymarket
Feeling like hotpot whilst out in the city. Lucky for us, there's plenty of hot pot places for us to choose from. The one we chose this time was Shan Cheng Hot Pot - filled with people - with pretty much every one of them speaking Mandarin or Cantonese. Made me feel as though I was in China :(
We sat down and had a good list of things to choose from. One thing was the soup base. I don't do chilli, and my friends do chilli extreme. The perfectness of this split pot is that my friends could have their super extra chilli side and I could have my chicken stock non-chilli soup side.
In terms of dunking ingredients, I ticked off a variety of "balls" - cuttlefish balls, beef balls, tofu fish - beef tripe, oysters, fatty beef slices, chinese cabbage, bean curd, king oyster mushrooms, corriander and white raddish. Yes - a whole heap of food.
Food-wise, everything was frozen, including the four oysters ($10) which were pretty fail. So hint - don't do seafood here. But everything else, we pretty much do frozen stuff for hot pot anyway so it didn't matter too much.
In terms of the soup-base, my side was pretty good and tasty. My friend's super hot hot hot side were seriously... super hot hot hot! My friends were almost dying from the hotness (and trust me, they take chilli really well).
Overall, food at this place is OK. The soup base was also OK. My partner almost died eating it, but he was also super addicted to it that he couldn't stop eating it (even though it was killing him). The atmosphere here wasn't great - unless you like the feel of being in a super crowded city in China. Service was average and pricewise, our bill came to around $100.
The Restaurant that you should GO!!!
Friday, 19 August 2011
Something called Sushi ♥
- Bara Sushi – The vinegar rice and ingredients are mixed as a salad
- Chirashi Sushi – The rice bed has various layers of fish and is served in a bowl called Gomoku Sushi or Iso-don
- Futomaki – This is a large Maki roll that has many different ingredients using Nori, which is a seaweed wrap
- Inari Sushi – Instead of using the traditional vinegar rice, brown, fried tofu is used
- Nigiri Sushi – Vinegar rice topped with a slice of raw or cooked fish, or vegetables
- Okonomi Sushi – This is home-style Nigiri
- Onigiri – This Sushi is made with regular steamed rice and rolled into a ball with other ingredients
- Oshizushi – Vinegar rice and other ingredients of choice pressed into a mold
- Temaki – These are cone-shaped seaweed rolls also called a hand roll
After u see those pictures, would u like to try something called Sushi? I'm a sushi lover ♥
Thursday, 18 August 2011
VietNamese foods Cont!!!!!
For Vietnamese; Pho is life; love and all things that matter. In Vietnam; Pho is mostly a restaurant food. Though some people prepare it at home; most prefer going to noisy soup shops. Here are a few tips:
- Pho comes with a variety of toppings including rare beef; well-done beef and slices of brisket; tendon; tripe and even meatballs. If you’re a novice; try pho Tai Chin; which includes the rare and well-done beef combination.
- Sprinkle some black pepper; then add bean sprouts; fresh chili and a little squeeze of lime to your bowl. Using your fingers; pluck the Asian basil leaves from their sprigs and; if they’re available; shred the saw-leaf herbs and add to the soup. Add little by little; eating as you go. If you put the greens in all at once; the broth will cool too fast and the herbs will overcook and lose their bright flavors.
What do we need for makingthe best spaghetti?
First, we need to ring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil. Salt increases the boiling point of the water and enhances the flavour of the pasta.