hello suzie, thanks for leaving a comment on my friend's page^^. their family is going through a bit of a tough time at the moment, so i really hope this restaurant is a success for them!! hehe, yumcha is my favourite too!
Hi juugoolart, that's NP. Goodness knows if I lived near the Yum Cha place I would be eating there all the time! I mentioned YumCha to a Thai friend the other day and she swooned. Everyone who has experienced YumCha loves it. My son embarrasses his wife when they eat YumCha in Perth Have you eaten 'Hot Pot' at home or out? Kei calls it Hot Pot anyway where the pot is in the middle of the table, over a gas hob, and an array of meats and vegies are sitting there raw for you to cook and eat. Michael loves it, had it first in Hong Kong. They cook it occasionally with seafood and all. I would love to try that
Hey, hey, welcome back juugoolart. Long time no see.
hehe, thanks^^. but i've always been around reading all the latest BB gossip and checking out the cool imaging wallpapers . i just hardly comment because i don't have anything important to say . have a fun trip !! so jealous~
ooo suzie, HOT POT is awesome!! yes, we eat it all the time too, especially fun with a big group. Kei is a nice name.. it sounds more japanese than chinese to me though, hehe. yumcha is great but not cool if you eat it to often, i guess that's the same with every other food. have you tried 'weird dishes'? like chicken feet, smelly tofu and century egg with pork congee? they may sound disgusting but they're very yummy!! hehe.
whenever me and my family go to yumcha restaurants the only thing i eat are spring rolls and steamed pork buns (bao li). But as my parents are asian they eat everything, from chicken feet, to tripe, to god knows what else... yumcha is not me at all lol. same goes with the hotpot. parents eat it... i dont
I've always wondered just what you're supposed to do with tripe. I bought some once and put it in a soup/stew type thing and it was wrong. It must be fried or something.
I'm pretty sure I would've mentioned it in passing but I don't blame you guys for not remembering hehe. Anyways, my sister has cerebal palsy (in order words, brain damage); she can't walk or talk properly, but she's not a total cripple. After all, she can walk and talk (and she's been through high school and all that), but obviously not at the same capacity as the average person. She was like that at birth as she was born premature (at only 500 grams), however she also had a twin (at around 800 grams), who the doctors thought was going to survive as she seemed like the healthier one of the two, but ironically enough, the "healthier" one died of internal bleeding (and my living sister was named 'Angel' in Turkish) as it was assumed that she would be the one to cease. She'll be 21 in August. The one who died was about 2 weeks old.
I've seen some pictures of my deceased sister, and I must say that they're very unsettling. Apparantly my mum was also facing a health crisis on her own when she was trying to deliver the two girls. It doesn't really affect me so much but it is upsetting knowing the unfortunate circumstances behind it all. I mean, imagine losing your first child... So yeah, that's the story.
And for the record, my sister's not the angel that her name makes her out to be.
Oh wow, that's so sad. It would be a shock, like you're preparing yourself for 1 child to die, then it happens the other way around. There is a boy in my physics class with cerebral palsy, and he can't talk properly, but he can but it takes a while and he's kind of hard to understand, and he walks but funnily, but the funny thing is he is like 10x smarter than all the rest of us!
Suzi, gosh yes go on holiday! The most relaxing place is Switzerland, in a little cabin on the alps, it is so beautiful. You live in bread and butter,mmmmmm.
You can cook tripe many different ways and YumCha usually has beef tripe. It looks lik honey comb and is a light brown colour. Sheeps tripe is finer and white . Below is a link to tripe through google http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=Tripe+cooking&src=IE-SearchBox My Mum used to cook tripe, well... our neighbour lady did it for her. Dad brought the sheep's tripe home from his butcher's shop and the lady next door cooked it in milk and onions for Mum as Dad used to heave at the smell of it cooking!
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Tripe is an ingredient which really divides cooks and diners. Maggie has strong memories of the smell that pervaded the family home as her mother boiled tripe for hours and prepared it the old-fashioned English way, in white sauce with onions. It wasn’t until Maggie tried Tripe in Italy that she was converted to its charms, and now she’s a big fan and believes that Tripe can be fantastic if cooked properly.
Tripe is the stomach lining of a ruminant animal (eg. an animal that chews cud); it can come from sheep, lambs or pigs, but most commonly from cows. There are different varieties of Tripe available corresponding to the animal’s four stomachs; blanket tripe from the first, honeycomb tripe from the second, book tripe from the third, and reed tripe from the fourth; Maggie uses the honeycomb variety in this week’s recipe Some care must be taken when preparing tripe as it requires thorough cleaning and boiling before cooking; if you’re not sure, just ask your butcher.
I love lots of the YumCha dishes but find when asians are a customer the food brought out is different. I have never been offered chickens feet or tripe for instance and yet when Kei is there they bring those things to our table My son eats them but myself and my daughter... not in your life nelly When I first met Kei I learnt to remember her name by saying Key Chain as her name is Chan Kei (the Chinese way) Now she is Black Chan Kei being married to my son, I think that's how it goes.
My parents say tripe has no taste but gets its flavour from what it's in. In saying that I still refuse to try it... I don't wanna be eating a stomach lining.
EDIT: Suzi you might want to wait and let Paula moderate the links in this post since I'm putting them there with a disclaimer. I imagine for some reason, that I can't really identify, that you might be more sensitive in the tummy.
Thanks for the link Suzi. I'm going to post... I might not have posted it here. Well if I already did then I guess I'll repost them. Anyway, I'm going to post some stuff I ate when me and my wife went on vacation a while back. We were going to Ecuador for a month to see her family but it was round the world for just a few hundred more and we did that. The only thing extra, food wise, out of the extra places was snails in France. Most of these are somewhat mild pictures and some of you probably already saw them on another forum where I go by the more anonymous username of "MeanDean". I think I'll start using my avatar in both places actually.
Okay so the deal is that this is a WARNING THAT SOME PEOPLE FOUND THIS GROSS AND THAT IT MADE THEM SICK while others thought it was just kind of meh. When my daughter was born I snapped a shot of the placenta. I accidentally uploaded it with all the pics I sent out to our friends and family and didn't notice until later. I'll upload that one too just for the sake of being... just for the sake of it. Hopefully these don't get taken down by hosting service as it's just links.
This is probably the worst one. This little suckers are pretty good. A bit over rated. They're called cuy, pronounced sort of like coo eee only with one sylabol, which makes little sense in Spanish spelling as well. They're really cute animals. They're a type of guinea pig that's been bred over a long time to be HUGE. If you took your typical house cat, and your kid threw it in the pool (ours jumped in a lake trying to get out of a boat that was launched) and saw how much cat was really there and how much of it was actually fur, then the cat part is about how big these guys are. They gut them, cut them in half down the middle, fry them, and they get served with a toasted type of corn that we don't get here. In Ecuador there's like 6 or 8 types of corn. The heart is still in them, or half of it anyway, and is really crispy and in the bowl of corn. It tastes okay. It's not bad, it tastes like chicken but really strong, and it smells like... cuy, later, on your skin and is hard to wash off. This is a before and after pics: before http://i30.tinypic.com/16kq0kk.jpg after http://i30.tinypic.com/302rh2f.jpg
This is yaghuarlocro. It's also not making any sense in the spelling. It's an indiginous word. It's blood soup. You have to get it before it clots, so at the slaughterhouse... or in the yard, as it's Ecuador, when you kill a sheep you bleed it then get the blood staight after and fry it up in oil in a pan. It clumps up but doesn't clot. It's very soft and flakey. It has potato and intestines and avacado, and I think it must have some tomato base like many soups do, but not too strong. It is MEGA YUMMY!!! It's not that gross to look at. You can see the clumps of blood, some bigger some smaller. They are soft. http://i30.tinypic.com/wu43cw.jpg
This is someone else's soup... nothing special, just chicken feet, but if you use your imagination, it looks like baby fingers. When I saw it it freaked me out so I took the picture. http://i30.tinypic.com/2e4lzcz.jpg
Err... What's left over from a baked rabit we had for dinner... the head, and not in good looking condition either. This one's gotten criticism as being gross even though it's just food. I never had rabbit before. I didn't like it. http://i32.tinypic.com/11ui6vt.jpg
I could swear I did these pictures on this forum already, but then again I can't remember really... better to be gross than sorry I guess.
This one isn't gross. It's just a pregnancy test. It wasn't my idea to take a picture. I know what they look like and can envision 2 lines instead of one if I try hard, but girls are girls and as such we have a picture of the thing: http://i31.tinypic.com/9lcrxe.jpg
Some people are facinated by the placenta, some people think it's gross, some people, like many of you, just don't care and wonder why I bother at all. This is it. It isn't pretty whatsover except in a nifty sort of way... hmm, just don't look if you think it might not be good: http://i31.tinypic.com/25zp2kw.jpg
I was looking also for a picture of Leia that's within a few minutes of her birth but where they don't have me or my wife's face in it, they're blurred so not for now. Maybe later after I cut our faces out. We're very good looking and it can blind you or cause heart attack to look directly at us. She's a year a week ago and she's smarter and cuter than all the other babies. Today we learned what a peg is and that red and blue pegs are red and blue... first we learned red and blue, and then we learned red peg blue peg. Maybe she already knew and I'm the one that needs educating though
omgosh.. i was reading through your post quickly and i thought you ate your wife's placenta!! , i had to read it over 2-3 times to realise you didn't. you're brave, i would never have tried those foods .. bleh
juugoolart! Hey!! How are you?? You should enter the imaging thing, I know you're wayy good at artwork!
i'm fine , hope you're feeling better^^. i don't have photoshop and atm preoccupied with studies. i'll finish the exams in a few weeks though! i wish i've been to the places you've been! would love to experience europe!!
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I mentioned YumCha to a Thai friend the other day and she swooned. Everyone who has experienced YumCha loves it. My son embarrasses his wife when they eat YumCha in Perth 
Have you eaten 'Hot Pot' at home or out? Kei calls it Hot Pot anyway where the pot is in the middle of the table, over a gas hob, and an array of meats and vegies are sitting there raw for you to cook and eat. Michael loves it, had it first in Hong Kong. They cook it occasionally with seafood and all. I would love to try that 
Apparantly my mum was also facing a health crisis on her own when she was trying to deliver the two girls. It doesn't really affect me so much but it is upsetting knowing the unfortunate circumstances behind it all. I mean, imagine losing your first child... 
My son eats them but myself and my daughter... not in your life nelly 
