You know thing have come to a head when someone has made an ice cream out of Chinese claypot rice, lap cheong and all. Pace Heston Blumental and the rest of the liquid nitrogen gang, I’m going to spend the rest of the evening with a copy of Alice Water’s Chez Panisse Cooking but therein lies another kitchen dilemna. Fresh, seasonal produce? Not in Singapore. At least we will have some good wan ton noodles to look forward to in Hong Kong tomorrow.
Archive for January, 2008
Wherever I lay my head
Posted in Stuff on January 14, 2008 by porcorossoA couple of things happened over the weekend. Small things but they made me wonder – Mrs P almost knocked a cyclist over because he was cycling against the traffic on a one way street with no lights at 8 pm. When we got to the restaurant we found none of the wait staff spoke English so our Egyptian friend was struggling a little. Then because of the earlier incident, Mrs P understandably did not want to drive home so I drove – as I pulled out of the car park, two women ran across the drive way. Now the common theme is that all these incidents involved foreign workers and tourists in one way or another – as Emerson once wrote, you can never go home again. Time to emigrate.
Six, Twelve
Posted in Stuff on January 3, 2008 by porcorosso2007 Hits – Panorama restaurant (Mount Cook, NZ), Xbox 360, South Africa, The Prestige, Denis Min-Kim, White Shadows.
2007 Misses – After Dark by Haruki Murakami, Supreme Commander, Whampoa Club in Beijing, Long Road out of Eden by the Eagles.
Wine review – here
2008 Resolutions – none
2008 Wishes – lose 10 lbs, Bouchard Finlayson, Hanami, A380, Tetsuya’s
