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Skriven 2007-01-24 11:27:34 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
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 GJ> If you go round the back you can get even further away from the
 GJ> clothing shops.  That is one of the places which serves curries and
 GJ> things on the plastic banana-leaf plates.

 ML> All the better. But I reckon Carol would not be thrilled at
 ML> being given the choice between eating and shopping. Fine, dear,
 ML> I'll just go off and have a spot of lunch while you shop.

Three hours later Carol comes back to tell you she has found the
perfect shoe - for the left foot; now she has to find a matching one
which fits her right foot.  And don't you dare dine without her!  :)

 ML> We went to Banana Leaf Apolo, anyhow, and had one of the best
 ML> mutton curries I've ever had: it was dry with whole spices and
 ML> quite hot and quite delicious.

That's the expensive one which serves on *real* banana leaves, right?
 
 GJ>  I usually buy pastry things from small
 GJ> stalls where it is cooked before my eyes.

 ML> Difficult for baked goods. At Pau Dian the steamed things were
 ML> being steamed right behind the shop lady, and the baked things
 ML> were in a normal case: all were fresh and good. Old Chang Kee
 ML> has trucks darting down the streets to provision the outlets,
 ML> which as far as I could see have warming facilities but not
 ML> cooking ones (there may be a kettle of hot oil to freshen up
 ML> the squid sticks and so on, but I don't recall exactly).

Some shops - particularly in the Philippines - have small baking ovens
in the shops for breads like pandesal, which is best eaten hot, only
minutes after being taken from the oven, put in a brown paper bag (not
plastic!) and rushed home, cut open and the butter melted in.  I'm
sure I have seen those little ovens in Singapore...  I have seen the
steamers cooking siopao.  The best of those I ever had was bought from
an Indian-Chinese place in a back street of Little India.

 GJ>  Darwin is halfway to Singapore, and Singapore is
 GJ> half way to most of the rest of the world.)

 ML> What fun. Tell us if you're going to be within say a thousand
 ML> miles of where we are.

Certainly.  So far the only fairly firm dates I have for this year are
Auckland in September for wedding of first grand-daughter and Manila
in December-January.  Other possibilities are Singapore-Melaka, Perth,
Vietnam and India.  It is almost certain that I will go North when the
temperature here drops to single figures (Celcius, of course).
 
 GJ> Geelong is some 70 or 80 km from Melbourne, although as second largest
 GJ> Victorian city it is important in its own right.  There is a train
 GJ> line joining them.
 ML> 
 ML> I think it's JetStar or some similar reprehensible cattle-car
 ML> company that is doing said marketing. Speaking of which, I found

As far as I know Jestart is an el cheapo subsidiary of Qantas.  There
has been talk recently of Q buying an unnamed SE Asian cut-price
airline.  Jet*Asia and Tiger Air would be likely targets.  They are
not quite up to the Virgin Blue standard.  :(((

 ML> Virgin Blue really detestable - the Southwest of the Southern
 ML> Hemisphere. Next time, I think it'll be Quaintarse - I should have

Try Great Southern Railways; a little slower, but more civilised.

 GJ> Some airports, eg Changi, have very comfortable, free, sleeping
 GJ> lounges in the transit area, and good, round the clock, food.

 ML> Name another sleeper-friendly airport. Google "sleeping in airports"
 ML> for a site that is similar or identical with sleepinginairports.com,
 ML> which tells mostly horror stories. And recent reports have it that

I did that once, to read the top and bottom ends of the scale.  I
certainly would not be comfortable sleeping at Jackson's airport, PNG.

 ML> the Changi police have been cracking down on indigent-looking
 ML> white-bearded westerners sleeping in those comfy chairs.

Surely not!  Not when it is Uncle who is softly snoring there with his
mouth hanging open.  I would expect them to arrange the blanket and
tuck me in.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Pan De Sal > Complete Bread Book
 Categories: Breads, Breakfast, Filipino
      Yield: 16 Servings
 
     15 g  Shortening
      1 tb Salt
      1 tb Sugar
    225 ml Boiling water
    225 ml Warm water
      1 tb Active dry yeast
    450 g  Strong flour
    110 g  Plain, unsweetened crackers
           Crumbled
 
  Makes 16 buns. in a large mixing bowl, combine the shortening, salt,
  sugar and boiling water. Stir and leave the mixture to cool. Add the
  warm water and sprinkle in the yeast.  Leave it for 15 minutes.
  Gradually mix in the flour to make a dough.  Turn it on to a floured
  work surface and knead it until it is smooth.  return it to the bowl,
  cover it and leave it in a warm place until it has doubled in size.
  Knead it again. Preheat the oven to 425F/220C.  Divide into sixteen
  round buns. Roll the pieces in the cracker crumbs and lay them on
  floured baking sheets, spread well apart. Leave them in a warm place
  for 20 minutes to prove. Bake the buns for 15 minutes and cool them
  on wire racks. **Typed for you by two of Jazzbel's fingers to post on
  the homehearth list.
  
  Recipe By     : The Complete Bread Book-Gail Duff
 
MMMMM
 

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