Feb 15, 2008
I've been cooking at home quite a lot recently. Not just the same old stuff. I've decided to learn how to cook Chinese food. I don't want to just cook it, I want to make it taste darn good. I'll put some recipes and pictures up after I've made something absolutely delicious. That should happen later this week.
Something that made me laugh though. Back home we would make "stir fry" every now and again. Basically some beef and vegetables fried up and served with rice. This would be the name of every dish served in China if i called everything cooked like that stir fry! But noooo, the names of Chinese foods make absolutely no sense!
One example I can think of is 鱼香肉丝 (yuxiang rou si). Probably one of my favorite dishes and I'll most likely post the recipe up here later. But the name literally means something like fish flavored meat (in this case pork) threads. The problem is that there is not a hint of fish flavor whatsoever. Stinking misleading food names.
There are stranger names, but I can't seem to remember them right now.
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- Anonymous said...
2/16/08, 11:12 AMoh my goodness i am so excited to be able to read about your life again!!!! hooray!! good times! your pictures look so awesome my gosh I love asian cultures.... ah donde estoy?