Ordinary Gweilo
It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writiing (mainly) about Hong Kong
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Category: Food and Drink
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ATV World are showing Heston Blumenthal’s series In Search of Perfection on Tuesday nights. I’ve only watched one so far, but it was a wonderfully bizarre program. When Heston does sausage and mash, you won’t be surprised that he goes to great trouble to source the finest organic pork and even travels up to the…
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It’s that time of year again. Every Chinese restaurant has piles of Moon Cakes everywhere you look. Worse still, fridges across Hong Kong seem to be full of the wretched things, with hardly any space available for actual food or drink. I’ve never quite seen the attraction of these lard and sugar-filled delights. And who’d…
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Hong Kong has new rules about food labelling, which the government claim to have started enforcing from last Monday. Many products do now have these labels (cheese apparently contains milk, in case you hadn’t realized). In the last week or so, this seems to have prompted supermarkets to do two things. Withdraw products. Attach a disclaimer label warning that…
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Just a brief rant about something that annoyed me. I wanted to go to the cheese shop I have mentioned before, but being in that tiny minority of Gweilos who don’t know Hollywood Road like the back of my hand, I thought I could pinpoint the location using the web. Not so fast… The cheese…
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I fear I may be straying into Fumier territory here with tales of DH culinary woe, but never mind. I don’t eat steaks very often, in part because in my house they usually turn up dry and an un-appetising shade of grey. Requests for them to be cooked properly are politely noted – but then ignored. When I asked why, I was told that “there…
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I don’t have very high expectations when it comes to food on board a plane (well, certainly not in Economy, which is where I usually end up), so when I get something good it is worth mentioning. My pleasant surprise was Cathay Pacific’s Paneer with rice. Cubes of Paneer (Indian restaurants usually call it "Indian…
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In the interests of research I have visited the new cheese shop in Central, which is housed in Classified PR It's in a slightly out-of-the-way location at the far end of Hollywood Road, but they have created a special humidity-controlled room for the cheese so that it does not dry out (although most people keep…
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A new cheese shop in Central. The website is useless, but apparently they will focus on British & Irish cheeses.
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Which is worse: “ordinary” Chinese food in the UK or “ordinary” European food in Hong Kong? I’ll admit that I used to enjoy Chinese food in the UK. Of course, I knew that it probably wasn’t exactly the same as the Chinese food in China, but it was different from European food and I liked…
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Last year I seem to recall I was rather dismissive of a food label that said “0g Trans Fat” – on the grounds that the product still had a high fat content. However, perhaps that was a little unfair – it is widely accepted that there are good fats and bad fats, and Trans Fats are the worst…
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