Cooking tips and wonderful flavour combinations
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there's a pretty good one in soho but it ain't cheap
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
that one's got a v good rep, but there must be cheaper ones.... Is Ba-Shan another one? apparently they're related, and Fuchsia Dunlop was consultant for Ba-Shan
Slothrop
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Is it any use for veggies? I've wondered about getting it, but 'authentic' chinese recipe books inevitably seem to have a little bit of minced pork in almost everything, while veggie chinese recipe books are almost always uninspiring...
luka
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chinese food got a lot of vegetable dishes i think although you wouldnt know to judge by the resturaunts in london. i could just have been eating a load of minced pork recently though.
yesterday they put a small dish of pickled radish and soy bean in front of us as a starter. that was incredibly delicious, particulalry after drinking beers in the pub all day. i had big green chillis charred and delicious with huge amounts of garlic, whole cloves and half cloves, a dish with tiny sliced aubergine and fresh very hot chillis, delcious fried rice, long grain rice, the rice i like, i dont get into the mushed short grain most of china seems to eat really um something with mushrooms and celery that was not all that inspiring but was a relief in a way as it wasnt burning hot.
yesterday they put a small dish of pickled radish and soy bean in front of us as a starter. that was incredibly delicious, particulalry after drinking beers in the pub all day. i had big green chillis charred and delicious with huge amounts of garlic, whole cloves and half cloves, a dish with tiny sliced aubergine and fresh very hot chillis, delcious fried rice, long grain rice, the rice i like, i dont get into the mushed short grain most of china seems to eat really um something with mushrooms and celery that was not all that inspiring but was a relief in a way as it wasnt burning hot.
luka
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http://www.urbanspoon.com/u/menu/1452177
heres the menu.
heres the menu.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
Golden Day :
http://www.london-eating.co.uk/37194.htm
is Hunan. I thought it was OK, not mindblowing but I may have been having an off day*
Ba-shu is more Sichuan. They've changed chef, he's in Brick Lane now with his own place. I think there are better Sichuan places than both of them, to be honest but I eat this shit alot.
Ba-Shan
http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/venue/2:21319/ba-shan
more Hunan and it's really, really good there. Mix of Hunan, Sichuan and Shaanxi. It's basically that Dunlop cookbook come to life, but better than you can cook it. The Doc and me take people there to start them off on this sort of food. I recommend it. Go to that one.
* actually I didn't like it there at all, but I'm being polite.
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mistersloane
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that looks really nice.
Mr. Tea
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WTF? How do they work that out? I'm reminded of Pythagoras's crazy food rules - like you mustn't eat chickpeas, because they sorta look like a little human head and therefore might have tiny souls of their own...
nochexxx
harco pronting
WTF? How do they work that out? I'm reminded of Pythagoras's crazy food rules - like you mustn't eat chickpeas, because they sorta look like a little human head and therefore might have tiny souls of their own...
it's a case of avoiding food that overdrives the senses, garlic is basically too racy lol after having that explained that to me i found it made perfect sense. garlic induces the same ravenous taste sensations i experience when i'm being a carnivore.
having been a vegetarian for about 8 years i reckon Buddhist seitan restaurants have the best vegetarian food. it beggars belief what they get up too!
Mr. Tea
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Man, I can't imagine giving up garlic. I'd almost rather give up meat! That said, I'm not against veggy food on principle and this style of cooking does sound intriguing - dunno where I'd find a place serving it over here though.
Might check out some of the Indonesian places here when my girlfriend comes over next, not a cuisine I'm too familiar with so it'll be cool to try new things.
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Slothrop
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And you can try some Indonesian food. B-dum tish.
Mr. Tea
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luka
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gluten yes. gluten can be very nice. in the local asian supermarket there are two huge freezers devoted to various types of flavoured gluten. pigs intestine, sharks fin, all sorts of exotic things. as well as chicken nuggets, beef, pork, roast duck etc. some are very good some are very bad. there are huge numbers of buffet style places in london doing this kind of food. they are all much of a muchness. not terribly exciting. supreme master ching hai has inspired a lot of vietnamese people in sydney to open vegetarian resturaunts in sydney in this style. some bad some very good.
http://suprememastertv.com/press-kit/
supreme master has her own tv channel and jewelerry range.
i been vege for 33 years and i think the absence f garlic and other racy spices means this style of cooking is inferior to indian vegetarian cooking which for me is the ultimate. i like the gluten but the indians been doing it for a long time and they are the masters of vegetarian food.
http://suprememastertv.com/press-kit/
supreme master has her own tv channel and jewelerry range.
i been vege for 33 years and i think the absence f garlic and other racy spices means this style of cooking is inferior to indian vegetarian cooking which for me is the ultimate. i like the gluten but the indians been doing it for a long time and they are the masters of vegetarian food.