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lord_codfish

Winter is coming

Oct 30, 2009 21:31

Beijing's Indian summer has come to a close with a bang, it appears; after temperatures in the 60s and 70s most of the week, they plummeted today, and now a cold rain is coming down outside. At least the weather report is no longer forecasting snow for Sunday, which it was before ( Read more... )

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lord_codfish November 1 2009, 15:37:29 UTC

Whee!!

(And as for the other, still too early to say; and I would prefer to minimize drama in any case...)

wombatfugue October 30 2009, 21:12:17 UTC

Saber-toothed elephant eggs would require toroidal jetskis.

lord_codfish November 1 2009, 15:35:48 UTC

Never! It would be mulch or nothing - else to the patisserie with them!

phramok November 4 2009, 15:04:45 UTC

Mmm, drama. Oh wait, I mean 油泼扯面. In pictures, at least, it looks like stroganoff.

lord_codfish November 6 2009, 17:18:03 UTC

Do they not have it in Taiwan? I suppose they wouldn't. In any case, it's nothing like stroganoff. It's wide, chewy noodles mixed with julienned cucumbers, beansprouts, and other miscellaneous things, in a bowl with a pool of oil at the bottom and some lajiao on top. I'm probably forgetting some ingredients too. It's awesome - one of my standard go-to Shaanxi dishes.

phramok November 6 2009, 17:29:44 UTC

Cool...no I never heard that term or seen quite that dish. The Hakka noodles 板條 can be served similarly. Sort of like this:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/%25E6%259D%25BF%25E6%25A2%259D/kenny_chen/food/DSC_3997.jpg

But more often they seem to be stir-fried. There's a 'blade-noodle' (? shoot, I forget the Chinese) which Taiwan street-cafe guys make in a really fun way, slicing quickly off a lump of dough with a huge cleaver. I don't care much for these though...they are thick and chewy, a little too much noodle!