What Food Are You Eating?

[Pedicabby]

Looks like onions, sweetcorn, peppers, and mange tout

I dunno what mange tout is but thats about right.

[Pedicabby]

Can't tell exactly what they are from the photo pedicabby. Insect or seafood? Insect would scare me less. Sadly I can't find my photos of bugs I ate in Thailand, but they weren't bad.

Yea, those are bugs. Big ones. I tries a few different kind of bug on my first trip to Da Kingdom. Once was enough.

[Pedicabby]

I went to a somewhat poshish kinda place in Savanakhet, Laos and the food was so good that I went back the next day.


Nice salad.


Grilled pork Provincall or some French sounding word. The only drawback was they could not understand what medium meant so I was forced to have it cooked medium well. I also could not make them understand to not bother with the stupid vegetables. Still not bad for a fiver.

[Bigfella]

I dunno what mange tout is but thats about right.

snow peas

[Bigfella]

That's gratitude for you. We send you, free of charge, to a country full of loveliness ie. snakes, spiders, sharks, crocs and delicacies and this is how you thank us.

I seem to recall the small matter of the Boer War, two World Wars, Malaya & the Konfrontasi.....and us going on rationing to feed your sorry arses during a couple of those wars. A simple 'thank you' would suffice.

You can thank Chef Escofier for the Frenceh flair but I'm sure you are aware that British cuisine...oppps cooking, is now as highly rated, if not higher, than French.

So after producing nothing edible for thousands of years you finally get it right. Forgive me for not falling over myself to hand out awards.

After 150 odd years of plodding along British style we got smart & took the shortcut of simply importing people from places that can cook. Got pretty much every worthwhile cusine I can think of covered in inner Melbourne alone.

Ask any of the tens of thousands of your countrymen working in London bars and restaurants aka posh cafes. I know ...I keep falling over their chains.

From what I hear pretty much the only people who do a decent day's work in England are the Scots, Irish, Poles & Aussies. Economy would tank if we all went home.;)

[Double Edge]

Grilled pork Provincall or some French sounding word.

Provençal or from the region of Provence

Beautiful part of the country.

The only drawback was they could not understand what medium meant so I was forced to have it cooked medium well. I also could not make them understand to not bother with the stupid vegetables. Still not bad for a fiver.

I thought pork was always well done.

One of the joys of no longer being british is that we are no longer bound by that curious cultural cringe about food that compels the Brits to contantly use the French names for food. I always figured they were hoping that by using French names it would make otherwise average food seem better or make ingredients seem 'exotic'.

So you use an Italian word instead. Hmmm, this sounds like a political decision. Given Anglo-French relations over the centuries makes the Brit choice even more surprising.

In North America, Australia, Germany and Scandinavia the plant is commonly called a zucchini (i/zuːˈkiːni/; plural: zucchini or zucchinis; from Italian: zucchino [d͡zukˈkiːno], plural: zucchini). This derives from the prevalent name in Italy, zucchina (small pumpkin).

The name courgette (French pronunciation: [kuʁ.ʒɛt]) is a French loan word and is commonly used in, among others, Great Britain, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa. In South Africa the fruit is typically harvested as a baby vegetable, approximately finger size, and referred to as baby marrows.

Zucchini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kiwis still use it.

I've never heard or seen okra labelled as 'lady fingers' here, nor does anyone call eggplant 'aubergine' or snow peas 'mange touts'. Could never work out why the poms did. Odd people. Really.

We use the portuguese word brinjal.

Dunno for sure but think portuguese traders were responsible for introducing India to tomatos, potatos & chillies from the new world. Cannot imagine Indian cuisine without those staples.

[Pedicabby]

I have had my pork chops and steaks medium for as long as I can remember.

[Doktor]

How you order a bloody steak in UK? :red:

[Pedicabby]

How you order a bloody steak in UK? :red:

Bloody rare for beef. It used to be easy but these days servers and cooks tend to be from any one of them eastern European countries so it can be hit or miss.

[bigross86]

Went out with the girlfriend for a fish dinner. I ordered the Gilt-head bream (though in Hebrew it has a much simpler name). This is the Before picture:



And this is the After picture

[bigross86]

That was on Friday night. Then tonight, I had a work event, where the company I used to work for pretty much said "Hey, we outsourced and fired your asses, lets at least pay for your dinner"

Me and a friend of mine started off with this: 850gr of entrecote, sirloin, chorizos, chicken breast and lamb sausage.



When I was still hungry after that, I got me another 300gr entrecote. What do I care, the bastards that fired my ass were paying!

[Pedicabby]

BBQ! These are popular all over SE Asia. I think it's a Korean thing but I dunno.



You start by putting chunks of pig fat (my favourite kind!) on the top and water around the bottom. The pig fat melts and drips down the side so the meat don't stick when grilling. The noodles and green stuff and the egg go into the water and it makes a nice soup at the end with all the pig fat and meaty flavours coming together.

[dave lukins]

I love that Korean? BBQ idea. I wonder where I could find or possibly make one out of aluminium? Is it fuelled by charcoal or oil?

[Pedicabby]

Charcoal. I'm in BKK for a few days before my flight back to Blighty. If I see any I will get some more strategic pics for ya.

[Pedicabby]

I havent seen any more, sorry dude. All it is is a table with a hole in the middle. The first thing to go into the hole is a big clay pot kinda thing, sort of like a plant pot with out the holes in the bottom. This is full of charcoal. The steel grill part goes on top. They are great fun to have. I used to go to these all you can eat places when I was in Chiang Mai for an extended stay. The buffet table would be full of raw meat of about all the different parts of cow, pig and what ever. Good eatin, all for about two quid.