GirlatWork wrote:Sounds like you have tried more Chinese food in a week than I have in 5 years. Great attitude! You'll love it here. In fact you will be happy anywhere. We need more positive people like you.
Hey thanks. Yeah I loved the food. I live in Korea at the moment and whilst I
enjoy the local cuisine, it is very samey and basic and nowhere near as subtle and elaborate as the food I had in Shanghai. Koreans are 'cooks' the Shanghai peope are closer to artists when it comes to food, in the way Italians or French are.
In fact I found some of it so elaborate in terms of blending of flavours and spices etc that it was kind of hard to get a handle on it and unlike with comfort food, where you just have a animal like satisfaction in your gut, that was more ellusive with some of the local dishes I had, especially the soups as they were so complex in flavour. I found myself walking away thinking 'I still don't get that soup but it was so good.'
Seriosuly, you guys should know how good you have it there food-wise. Compared to South Korea, it's a food paradise and I know some of you guys complain western groceries (cheeses, salamis, chocolates etc) are twice the price of 'back home' but compared to Korea where it's like 5 times the price ''back home' (even month after the US and EU - Korea fta's have been ratified...) I was in heaven. And the variety! The variety! Went to that foriegn market in People's square, holy cow, deli meats and cheeses, amazing beers, luxury chocolates, such variety. Man the local supermarkets there even blow away the selection at the big department stores in Seoul and are again, at least half the prices.... 50rmb for a huge piece of Italian quiche, 50rmb for a quarter of rabbit roasted in fennel and rosemary... (yeah I know you could eat local food for like 4 days on that, but hey I was on vacation.)
I am happy here in korea when I can find a 300g block of edam or a 150 slab of Gorganzola for the equivalent of 5 - 6 gbp....! Had a 125g camambert last night which cost be about 4 pounds in Korean won... Back home at Liddels that would be a quid...
Anyhow, good stuff.
And those lamb kebabs I swear are better than the ones I pay 5x as much for at the Uzbecki restaurant here in Busan.
Verbal - you were right the hand pulled and chow mein dishes were ace. But that is also what gave me the runs.... ha ha. Never tasted a sauce quite that good even in Bangkok Chinatown and the Chinese food there is fabulous. And these noodles were like 11rmb. Like the best women when you're young and can handle it - gorgeous but deadly.
