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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An educational and mildly amusing guide to poaching an egg. What more can you ask? Cling film is best, apparently.
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The return of an old feature – letter of the week. And, no, it’s not my old friend Simon Patkin demonstrating his sharp intellect. Instead, it’s this gem from today’s paper: Put him in the curry Writing from outer Sai Kung, Keith Noyes ("Food for thought", June 30) laments Chinese not trying western food while…
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Fumier noted that I hadn’t had a cheese post for a while. True enough. I haven’t had many posts of any kind for the last few weeks, due to lack of time. Anyway, Cheese Slices (shown last week on TVB) was about the Cheese Festival in a place called Bra in Italy. It seems that…
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My wife was watching the news last night on Cable TV and exclaimed that some people had died in Switzerland from eating some cheese called T-O-M-M-E. Indeed they have, though I am not sure how this really rather obscure story made it on to the news in Hong Kong. I can’t find any mention of…
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TVB has recently finished showing the first series of Channel Four’s "You are What you eat". The concept behind the show is that "leading nutritionist" Gillian McKeith advises an individual or family on adopting a healthier diet and lifestyle. It’s all good knockabout stuff – fat people meet a stern Barbara Woodhouse type who bullies…
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Stinky tofu or a nice ripe French cheese (brie or camembert for example). Opinions seem to vary on this one…
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Unsurprising news from the UK – Atkins Nutritionals UK is closing down. Cue headlines about "slim pickings" in several newspapers. As I have mentioned before, I find the Atkins Diet quite fascinating – because it does work, but not exactly in the way that Mr Atkins claimed. My view is that what makes the diet…
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The food part in this week’s Post Magazine was mainly about chicken livers, and the writer (Susan Jung) mentioned that they are only available frozen (from Olivers and some supermarkets). That does seem to be true, but about two years ago several branches of Park’n’Shop did sell fresh chicken livers (and other similar bits and…
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The Observer had an interesting piece yesterday about Alan Yau, someone from over here who’s doing rather well over there. He’s from Hong Kong and he runs a London restaurant called Hakkasan, the first Cantonese restaurant to win a Michelin star (though I’m not sure this means anything – the further Michelin gets away from…
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I happened to be in Festival Walk (Kowloon Tong) recently, and I had only just got over the disappointment of discovering that they are using the same giant Christmas tree for the 3rd or 4th year in a row, when I discovered that the ParknShop Superstore has morphed into something called Taste (as reported in…
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