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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 21, 2011 16:15:43 GMT
Really! I was starting to suspect the worst.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2011 17:29:58 GMT
Today's lunch, at a Swedish owned place. Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and some red berry jam from Sweden. Quite good. I would imagine that the beetroot I see is also quite uncommon in Khmer kwisine.
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 27, 2011 4:52:23 GMT
Yes, you're right. I think it probably comes from a can. Yesterday I met some friends and we went for the champagne lunch buffet at Nagaworld Casino and Spa. The roast beef The oysters The lamb chops The BBQ'd prawns Then, at 3pm, moved over to Pacharan for the sangria and the river view There was lots more, cheeses, sweets, pasta, cold cuts, sushi and sashimi, Italian stuff, French stuff, breads, soups, I just didn't think of taking any pics.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2011 5:05:57 GMT
I bet it doesn't cost the same as brunch at the Inter-Continental in Paris.
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 27, 2011 5:19:54 GMT
I bet it doesn't cost the same as brunch at the Inter-Continental in Paris. No. 23USD with no champagne, 30USD with free flow champagne. I only do it once a month.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 27, 2011 6:00:52 GMT
So it only costs you a dollar a day! Well worth it, I'd say.
I licked the roast beef picture and marvelled over the ritzy-titzy presentation of buffet food further down.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 27, 2011 11:08:31 GMT
Oooooo! V e r y cheffy lamb and prawn dishes! Beef a bit too rare for my taste and I'll come clean about oysters .....never eaten them raw! Smoked from a can, but even though we were offered unlimited amounts on a dolphin tour in Namibia - declined I'm sorry to say. What puts me off? I suppose the slimy look, the smell definitely - a bit too fishy for me! Maybe one day......
I LOVED the snake Bixa!!
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Post by hwinpp on Jun 28, 2011 5:20:02 GMT
Those were the additional 'set' meals you got at lunch. We just put them on the tables and shared everything ;D
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 13, 2011 5:32:21 GMT
Yesterday's lunch, at New Delhi Restaurant, veg thali, ok, average, nothing to write home about.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 13, 2011 7:58:56 GMT
Not enough Indian food yet so I figured I'd go have lunch at The Indian. South Indian food and lengths ahead of the two places I went to yesterday. Here's the mutton thali and here's the South Indian thali. Had poppadams as an appetizer. The food was delicious.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 25, 2011 4:26:22 GMT
Saturday's lunch. The curries at Mamak Corner in Phnom Penh, from top, clockwise, beef rendang, mutton curry, squid in tomato sauce, fried cabbage, eggplant (from the chicken curry). The food was excellent, pricing intransparent. While it looks Indian, it's actually Malay, especially the rendang with all that fibrous lemon grass.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 29, 2011 12:41:33 GMT
HW - I made beef rendang once with a packet of spices I bought in Singapore. It's so long ago now but I have an idea it had toasted shredded coconut which I was suppose to add towards the end. Does this sound right?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2011 16:57:34 GMT
Do I see a cardamom pod?
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Post by tod2 on Jul 29, 2011 17:03:09 GMT
I think can see it resting on some yellow rice. One of my fav spices.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2011 17:15:25 GMT
Yes, I use too much of it, because every time I bite into a pod I can imagine that I am on holiday in Asia.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 29, 2011 18:39:45 GMT
The metal compartmented trays are strongly reminiscent of U.S. Army chow.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2011 19:08:14 GMT
I used a tray like that in the Aurobindo sect dining room in Pondicherry. I felt like I was eating in a prison.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 30, 2011 14:46:21 GMT
Remember the Melmac sectioned plates in school cafeterias? On the rare occasions that something desirable was served, it was ruined by the slamming, splashing method of slinging undrained food onto the plates. Apple Brown Betty swimming in canned pea juice is my abiding image of school food.
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 1, 2011 8:06:36 GMT
HW - I made beef rendang once with a packet of spices I bought in Singapore. It's so long ago now but I have an idea it had toasted shredded coconut which I was suppose to add towards the end. Does this sound right? Yes, should be right. I'm not good at making it because I'm so lazy I forget to stir and burn it. It's supposed to be 'dry', so you need to stir until the coconut milk as evaporated and the coconut flakes are integrated in the general stickiness. Because it has to cook long and slowly it's good to use either tough beef or tough mutton. ;D I think can see it resting on some yellow rice. One of my fav spices. Yes, I think there are actually two. They're not from the rice but from the sauce of the chicken curry that I ladled over the rice. The metal compartmented trays are strongly reminiscent of U.S. Army chow. These are the famous Indian thalis. In the deep south they normally use fresh banana leaves but thalis are taking over. I used a tray like that in the Aurobindo sect dining room in Pondicherry. I felt like I was eating in a prison. Alsomost Westerners prefer them. Looks much more organized ;D Remember the Melmac sectioned plates in school cafeterias? On the rare occasions that something desirable was served, it was ruined by the slamming, splashing method of slinging undrained food onto the plates. Apple Brown Betty swimming in canned pea juice is my abiding image of school food. I wouldn't have liked them in school either. The only school I ever went to where lunch was served was in Algeria and there we got proper plates. But I've been off couscous since then...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2011 19:56:27 GMT
I was looking for photos of Algerian school meals, but the only ones that came up concerned items that caused food poisoning, which would not have been fair.
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 3, 2011 8:56:19 GMT
All I remember was eating couscous nearly every day, which is probably not true. But I can't remember any of the other meals!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2011 17:45:22 GMT
Fish on Friday? Or fish couscous?
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Post by hwinpp on Aug 4, 2011 7:17:45 GMT
No idea, it's 30 years ago! Algeria was secular at that time, I don't think there was a lot of religious observation.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2011 4:49:10 GMT
Yeah, but it's a school tradition which even persists now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2011 12:43:03 GMT
I wish my lunch place would also sell a pho only half as big as the full size.
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Post by auntieannie on Aug 16, 2011 11:24:41 GMT
I made myself a cheddar ploughman's lunch today. (but I added olives which aren't part of the traditional ploughman's lunch... but they're so nice!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2011 12:15:02 GMT
I skipped both breakfast and lunch, so I am going to have to be careful with dinner.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Aug 16, 2011 21:48:00 GMT
Lunch was a takeaway pizza from Ray's Famous NY Pizza, in Verona, NJ. We took home a large, sweet peppers and onions plus half with chopped fresh garlic. Another great, crisp salad of NJ produce. Heeeere's our Ray's PIZZA!! We gird our loins for tomorrow's lunch, a la pastrami sandwich, at Irving's Deli. www.irvings-deli.com/EDIT: On reflection, after eating our second Ray's Famous NY Pizza, I don't like the crust. It has a rubbery, not crisp quality. There's a synthetic feel to it. However, the sauce and toppings are impeccable.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Aug 18, 2011 9:29:41 GMT
Irving's Deli yesterday, August 15, 2011. They have a Spring Special, still in effect, of a choice of a generously filled sandwich for $5.95, including the famed Pastrami Sandwich. (Or, you can order tuna salad, if that's your thing. ;D ) picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/BN_DltNheKA-mZxeSEFCqg?feat=directlinkEach table gets a bowl of pickles; both half and full sour cucumbers. I don't like their full sours as they are far too salty. The halfs were o.k. On repeated request, we also got some pickled green tomatoes. They were disappointing. They were so tough that we could hardly cut them, and they lacked juiciness. But they were free. The pastrami sandwiches were very nice, although the texture of the meat was so finely grained that it resembled ham. But overall, they were more than edible. The Spring Special gets you a sandwich of a size for any reasonable appetite. We also split an order of French fried onion rings, which were pretty good, and some fat, very HOT French Fried potatoes. Our drinks of choice were iced tea, Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda, and a Red Birch Beer. Red Birch Beer. IMO, the meal was good but some hard to define character was missing. OTOH, the lively Latina counter cook had plenty of character. I wanted to converse with her in her native idiom, but reason constrained me, for once.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2011 21:19:32 GMT
And working people eat this? It looks more like "I'm gonna eat this and have a long nap this afternoon."
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