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Steamed carp belly...
Steamed carp belly...
Steamed carp belly...
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Steamed carp belly
Steamed carp belly
Steamed cra (back space back space) carp belly
Heheheh...
I chuckled again and again in front of my laptop typing this...I need to get a life.
Love this fish (wan yu), especially the belly. The meat's succulent, satiny smooth, the bones are gigantic and relatively soft, easy to spot and pull out. They're gigantic, and they're relatively cheap! HK$30 (USD3.8) can get you a couple giant slabs of carp belly, which is the exact amount needed to get me sated from a fish.
If you're bored with the usual soy sauce, ginger and spring onion steamed fish combo, try this one.
Clean the carp belly slabs and place them on a plate.
Finely chop 1 clove of garlic, cut a sprig of spring onions to 5 cm pieces, julienne a slice of ginger, finely chop red chilli, scatter them on top of the fish, add a couple tbsp of Chinese bean paste (get this from Asian stores/Chinese grocer, in Cantonese it is called min si. It's remotely similar to miso, but a lot sweeter and it still has beans in it instead of a smooth paste)...
...and steam it for 8-10 minutes.
After steaming...hello succulent, satiny smooth cr carp belly...
The heck with food styling (opppps, sorry), let me just quickly devour this.
Psssst. I love junk food.
Go on, judge me...I love McDonald's, KFC, Jollibee, and all kinds of junk some people do not consider as food. Yum, yum, yum!
I especially lovee it when McDonald's having seasonal stuff like this black pepper burger.
You can choose between double black pepper burger, or a quadruple one with four slices of meat!!!
Isn't that a suicide on a plate? Wouldn't you love to devour it?
As much as I love junk food, I still want to live quite a while longer to be able to enjoy more of them :p
So I opted for double black pepper burger, not the towering quadruple.
Two slices of juicy grilled meat with tasty black pepper sauce, topped with a bit of chopped onion, in between soft buns. Yum!
I'll just eat lots of veggie and white meat for dinner later to compensate.
They also offer chocolate pie.
Flaky chocolate pastry crust...
With soft chocolate filling.
Not too bad, the crust is really flaky, not too sweet, but overall? Not chocolatey enough for me.
Are they available in your area? Show me what's available there please ^_^
The best way to burn all those evil calories?
Go shopping! I spotted this delightful stall full of gorgeous Chinese goodies in the flea market.
So so so hard to resist...but I successfully did.
Pssst. I already have most of them, unused, in my overflowing cupboard.
So much for being good at resisting temptations.
My closest friends are well aware that I am a yellow freak.
I love everything yellow.
I can't get enough of yellows...
- on me (if you saw me buying another yellow top...just let me, it's my thing. get over it)
- at home (I had my study room painted bright yellow. I accessorized other rooms with yellows, I buy yellow flowers...yellow, yellow, yellow!)
- on my food too (lemon, bananas, egg yolk, golden brown fried foods, yellow curries and spices...yum!)
However, I don't do saffron (hello, expensive)...but I love poor man's saffron, turmeric.
It turns everything gloriously golden and appetizing, and I love its mild fragrance and flavor, especially when paired with its good spice friends, cumin and corriander seeds.
Use the flavor combo for curries, meat or vegetable dishes...but when in doubt....make fried rice, just like what I did.
Fried rice has been my easy way out these days.
Dump any lean meat, vegetables, aromatics and spices, mix them together with tiniest bit of oil in a non stick pan, and I got myself a quick, easy, tasty, spicy, super satisfying, hearty and healthy dinner. 
Recipe
- 1 cup of rice (I use white and brown rice), cooked, refrigerated overnight
- 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 2 cloves shallot, thinly sliced
- 1 or 2 red chilli, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped into small bits
- any lean meat, cut into bite sized chunks (I used boneless, skinless chicken breast, half a pound)
- salt, pepper, sugar, ground corriander seeds, ground cumin, turmeric powder, 1 tsp olive oil, a couple dashes of fish sauce
In a non stick pan, saute garlic, shallot, and chilli in that tiny bit of olive oil. Add bell pepper chunks, add chicken, add rice, season with all the spices, taste until you reach the desired flavor balance. You should taste the salt, and the fragrance of all the spices, the color of your fried rice should be beautifully golden.
That reminds me, I don't have a yellow hand bag.
Let's go shopping.
I love my sodas. If it's up to me, I wanna be drinking sodas all the time.
No fancy couple-of-thousands-per-bottle wines for me, just gimme my fizzy-chemically-flavored-icy-cold-sugar-water....or in this case, jelly.
I've never been a fan of anything jiggly...especially if they're on my body. But I changed my mind after I tasted Japanese konyaku jelly, and this fanta jelly has quite a konyaku-jelliness to it.
Wait...Fanta? Jelly? Shake-shake? Wwww...what?
Yes, once they've done the Self Iced Coca Cola and Sprite, we were all kinda wondering what else you could do with carbonated drinks...and they came up with this.
Get them chilled, take 'em out of the fridge, shake 'em 10 times, and you'll end up with fanta jelly. Look at that evil slug of jelly pouring out of that cute lil' can. Yes, baby. That wasn't liquid, that's jelly! and they're still so amazingly fizzy!
Sounds mega brilliant, but, how did it taste?
Amazing! Refreshing, wonderfully chewy, it's more than a cold fizzy drink, it's a refreshing dessert!
Keep this in mind and go nuts next summer.
If Shake Shake Fanta Jelly isn't available in your area.....cry.
...or buy it off eBay ^_*
I always ALWAYS have difficulties with selecting photographs to submit to events/competitions/blog postings.
I'll blame it on my trigger-happy-made-for-digital-photography fingers. I could easily take a hundred shots of one object from identical angle....sigh...thus, as expected, selecting a couple of pictures is a pain in the ass for me, not to mention, just one photograph.
I desperately need help T_T
These are pictures I shot for Still Life Fotografi group, and I can't decide which one to submit for the round up...
In this case, may I shift all the responsibilities to you? ^_^
The shot above is Working Breakfast #1
It's a coconut cream bun from local traditional bakery, simply placed on my laptop (laptop can act as a food heater too hehe), the lighting is from my living room window on the left, reflected with a white cardboard from the right. I was pretending to read the South China Morning Post online, although what I would really read should be Perez Hilton.
- Manual mode
- Aperture 3.5
- ISO 400
- Shutter speed 1/50
Working Breakfast #2
Focused more on the bun, got rid of the empty tea cup and milk bottle, replaced it with blue and white tea pot.
Same lighting and camera setup as the above shot.
TV Breakfast #1
I love eating in front of my TV. If I had my way, I'd eat all my meals while watching my favorite bad TV shows. I am trying a new setup with this shot. Back lit, no reflector, shot from further distance, same camera setup as the above.
TV Breakfast #2
Closer shot of the above setup.
TV Breakfast #3
I wanted to include a bit of my beloved TV in the shot.
Do you like the raggedy old folding stool?
Breakfast Table #1
Do I really have my breakfasts like this? Surely, no.
I've been really lazy with food styling these days, but it was weekend, so I gave it a bit more effort.
The lighting still came from living room windows, reflected from the left with white cardboard, and I've increased the aperture to 2.8.
Breakfast Table #2
A closer shot of the above setup, as I found the black chair pretty out of place :(
Breakfast Table #3
Frog eye view (is there such a view?) of the above setup. I can see the lid of my beloved blue thermos here ^_^ you like?
The photog
Just woke up, haven't had breakfast, haven't showered...(OK, stop there. Too much info!)
The height booster
Many of you must recognise the green stool. Obviously my 154cm height is not enough to take the shots.
Now, tell me, which shot is your favorite and why?
All shots taken with CANON EOS 400D with 50mm f/1.8 lens.
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