Well the garlic and ginger did seem to cow the celery, then. There wasn't much celery to begin with. But I didn't have stock cubes and my mother reckons if you don't use stock then you need a bit of celery or something. Alternatively you COULD just eat meat, but I do that so much now that in my own home I'm always relieved to be vegetarian =)
Wow, I read about that. Was that in the English/Irish papers? Andy Lau is incredibly famous. More like stalking Bono, I suppose... he's quite old by now and is a pop star as well as a film star, and also is not ugly like Brad Pitt. In fact I think celebrity in China is just different because of the huge country and incredibly centralised media and pop culture - so I mean, very few Western celebrities would be recognized all over Europe, but you'd have to search some very interesting and far-flung places in China before you found someone who didn't know Andy Lau. Funny thing is, his Mandarin is apparently not even all that great - he's from Hong Kong, where celebrities come
Hey, I donno where in Dalian you live exactly, but do you know about the French bakery in the Zhongshan Park Market? That guy is the best. He makes focaccia, bagels, croissants, and really good muffins. And he speaks pretty good English, too. He lived in Canada for awhile, I heard, and is very friendly.
You can ask him. As far as I know, this is the best guy in town for bread. If I remember correctly, all you have to do is just walk in the right entrance to the 中山公园的那个...市场 and he's there on the right. In all my 2.5 years in Dalian though, never heard of Rye bread, though.
Survival skills bread-substitute suggestionjan_bApril 16 2007, 10:17:51 UTC
I know this blog is supposed to be about learning Chinese and not cookery but I have a bread-substitute suggestion. - If you have a frying pan and can get some dried yeast, Staffordshire oatcakes might go some way to filling the gap. They are a bit like heavy-duty pancakes but if you make them with wholemeal flour they might have some of the flavour and roughage you miss. You can eat them sweet or savoury, fill them like sandwiches or roll them up like tortillas. You would need to scale down this recipe because it makes 15
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Re: Survival skills bread-substitute suggestionliukaiqinMay 10 2007, 14:11:48 UTC
Hi Jan, thanks v. much for the instructions! If I can't take it any more I'll go in search of wholemeal flour. (Those sound nice whatever continent you're on, anyway.)
For the moment I'm eating French baguettes which are sold in most supermarkets - at the time of this post I was so zonked I couldn't even make myself brave the underground circles of hell that are shiny ultra supermarkets. Baguettes are sugarless and all right - a bit white though!
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Well the garlic and ginger did seem to cow the celery, then. There wasn't much celery to begin with. But I didn't have stock cubes and my mother reckons if you don't use stock then you need a bit of celery or something. Alternatively you COULD just eat meat, but I do that so much now that in my own home I'm always relieved to be vegetarian =)
Wow, I read about that. Was that in the English/Irish papers? Andy Lau is incredibly famous. More like stalking Bono, I suppose... he's quite old by now and is a pop star as well as a film star, and also is not ugly like Brad Pitt. In fact I think celebrity in China is just different because of the huge country and incredibly centralised media and pop culture - so I mean, very few Western celebrities would be recognized all over Europe, but you'd have to search some very interesting and far-flung places in China before you found someone who didn't know Andy Lau. Funny thing is, his Mandarin is apparently not even all that great - he's from Hong Kong, where celebrities come
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For the moment I'm eating French baguettes which are sold in most supermarkets - at the time of this post I was so zonked I couldn't even make myself brave the underground circles of hell that are shiny ultra supermarkets. Baguettes are sugarless and all right - a bit white though!
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