C's Pasta

Aa has gone back leaving me and C to take over the cooking. This was what C made last night. Sainbury's meat balls with sainsbury's tortellini pasta plus campbell tomato soup and whatever veg and roots she could find. Taste GooD!

O.k back to work

A High Caloric Meal

Dinner again at the usual hang out. We did not order the same dishes this time though. First up, soft shell crab. There were 4 pieces of crab on this plate. Very oily though but pretty tasty with the pungent garlic and spring onions.

Curry fish head. Hmm, very aromatic and tasty almost like the real stuff back home. I wished it was a bit more watery. There wasn't much meat though which was a dissapointment.

Another deep fried chicken dish. Pretty good and ranks up there amongst my favourite fried chicken dishes in Glasgow.



China Blue
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96 Renfield Street
Glasgow G2 1NH
0141 333 1881

Mooncakes

Thanks to K, I was able to get some mooncakes from mum. Here's the prized posession with a nice gift wrapping and not to mention, its from Hilton too. Aa, C and I shared one straight away. The paste was smooth and not gritty or powdery at all. The skin had the right mm of thickness as if they used a vernier calipers to measure it. ( ok i am exaggerating) Too bad I don't take yolk.

Happy Birthday Mum : )

Mango Sorbet

I did the ice cream decoration thingy again. This time, I used mango sorbet. This is the first time I am trying this flavour of B and J because its never on sale but heng heng it finally got discounted. Got 2 mangos for 2 pounds. haha its not cheap but what to do with all transport cost being factored in.

The ice cream it self actually looked really pretty with the interlacing of berry sorbet. Unfortunately the taste did not match its appearane. I found the flavour of the berry sorbet to be quite artificial and the mango sorbet just wasnt rich in flavour. All that had to be compensated by the tasty sweet and firm mango.

IMG_5625-45, originally uploaded by jiapui.

Green Tea Cake

Residency, Academic programme, books, exams..............ah.. Green Tea Cake : )

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Treat at Asia Style

Here's a belated birthday treat from the Tung sisters at Asia style after watching surrogates. The movie was not too bad. 3.5 stars? Moving on to the food... ...

Gan hiang beef. I think its translated as dry fragrant stir fry beef. Nice Satayish sauce

Salt and Pepper Squid. Deep fried is always nice. Esp the garlic bits.

Braised fish in mandarin sauce. Same dish different place. Yummy though.

Yong tau foo. Never seem to get bored of this dish.

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Asia Style
185 St. Georges Road
Glasgow, G3 6JD
0141 332 8828

Dim Sum at China Town Restaurant

Aa and C have been having dim sum cravings for some time now. I was more less neutral about it after the nice dinner at china blue the other night but this being a flat bonding session meant that I had to be there. haha anyway i wouldn't mind a bit more chinese food. I shouldn't be complaining lol.

We decided to go to Chinatown restaurant after a terrible decision making process using oranges and apples ; )

The last time I was here was in 2nd year. Oh boy oh boy. Time really flies but the experience that I had there the last time still lingered in my mind. I was hoping that things would have improved since.

So here goes.

Charsiew Cheong fun. Very good. Thin skin and chunky tender charsiew.

Standard siew mai. Ok only la.

Another typical item. Har gao. Not as good as the siew mai.

Steaming hot XLB. Pales in comparison to the ones back home. Suspect it has been frozen

Prawn and pork dumpling?. Better than har gao but not siew mai.

Scallop and open hargao. Forgettable. Scallop was not fresh

This is good. Deep fried tofu skin prawn rol with cheong fun wrap.

Deep fried prawn dumpling. This is nice with the mayo.

Carrot cake. Nice but a little too soft for me. I like it a bit firmer.

Prawn Cheong fun. The char siew version was much better.

Stewed pork ribs. Had better ones. Meat was too tough and lacked flavour

Overall, slight improvement compared to the last time. We did not manage to try the gigantic plates of noodles that they served as we were rather full by the end of the meal. The place can get alittle crowded during sunday lunchtimes. Will I come back again ? hmm.. maybe.


p.s : There's a fresh fish stall next door where I normally go for some good fishy.

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Chinatown Restaurant
42 New City Road
Port Dundas, Glasgow, G4 9JT
0141 353 0037

Dinner Treat at China Blue

Big G finally passed his driving instructor's test. After almost a year of toiling with a few upsets here and there, he's finally done it. Apparently he gets to drive a brand new ford focus every 6 months. How good is that. Yup. In celebration of the joyful news, he's invited a group of close friends to join him and his family for dinner at China Blue.

Here's a quick recap of what we had that night.

3 kinds of Roast. Only half a duck left in the restaurant that night. Good stuff

In house dumplings. Skin's a bit thick

Braised deep fried fish and tofu in a claypot. Good stuff also

Salted fish, aubergines, mince pork: Partner in crime with rice

Eggy vegetables. Nice stock

Honey pork chops. hmm haha u should know what i am going to say.

Sweet sour pork. This was suprisingly good.

Soft shell crab. The best dish that night.

A wonderful dinner... : )

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China Blue

96 Renfield St
Glasgow, G2 1NH
0141 333 1881

Canned Pork!!!

The Water fairy brand of canned pork product is a favourite in my family. I thought it would be nice to bring a can of it back to Glasgow when I came back this time around for Aa to have a taste. Oddly, Aa tells me that he eats cans of Ma Ling brand can pork when he was in primary school.. Yikes

Anyway, it was a late dinner for him and realising that there wasn't any food in the house he decided to open this can of oily goodness. Its by no means a kurobota pork but the flavourful stew mixture that it was cooked in sure brought back some old memories of childhood lunch time.

I didnt manage to get a snap shot of the finished dish which was basically garlic fried with the pork oil and then stir fried with chopped pork and some po chai (mustard greens?) yup. Smelt really good but when I finally went to see it, the dish has already gone into Aa's stomach.

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Dilita Afrikana Peri-Peri Hot sauce Chicken

Chicken time again. Baked some lovely drumsticks for dinner the other night to go with my wafer chips. This time I tried an african sauce called Peri Peri. Its quite spicy and slightly sourish. There's barcelos in Vivocity which sells something quite similar. Over in the UK, we have nandos (http://www.nandos.co.uk/). I wished I had a grill or some sort to cook the chicken but I had to rely on my oven which was fine but the charred flavour would have given it that extra oo la la.

Here's a sample of the sauce that I used. Marinated the chicken in it overnight with some tomato ketchup and sugar to give it that caramalise taste. Just before throwing it in the over, I gave chicken a quick splash of lemon juice to help give the skin a crispy edge. Temperature 200 degrees celcius for about 20-25 mins.