China Hefei - My Breakfast.....:)

To some of you who wonders as a "busy" yet organised people like I am, how do I "handle" my breakfast every morning..... hehe.. I am afraid I don't prepare my own breakfast....
I always eat something called 鸡蛋饼... but as for us Malaysians, this looks more like Popiah.... but a popiah which contains You Tiao & sausage.......

The following is how it looks like and how it is being made.....

Step 1:
Heat up the oil and sprinkled some chopped spring onions...

Step 2: Break the egg (sometimes I asked for size up... double!!)

Step 3: Cover the fried egg with Popiah skin....(something like the crepes!)
Step 4:
Add some chilly, her very own secret recipe to taste (taste bit salty, spicy & sweet)Step 5:
Spread everything on top of the Popiah skins evenly.
Step 6:
Add in the yau char kuai, (aka You Tiao in Mandarin). Normally I will also ask for special (which is an addition of sausage)

Step7:
Having readied everything in the center, the next step is to wrap it up and readied to be packed into plastic bag for me to take away...

I like it simply because it's quick, average healthy and delicious!!

By the way, I asked this lady to give me an opportunity to wrap it myself and apparently she agreed, so probably in one of this weekends... I will post some pix showing me in action!!

The cost is RMB 2 (normal) and RMB 2.50 (special) sometimes I asked for 2 eggs instead.. so, is a total of RMB 3.. hehe..

N.B. too bad this lady is running the business without license.. always kena saman by their local Majlis Bandaraya.... claiming her food is not approved, blablabla....... (you know their reasons...)
I thank god that she is still around for helping me to start my day!!

China Hefei - "Smelly" Beancurd...

To those of you who does not know how "smelly" beancurd , a.k.a "Chou Tou Foo" look like, you can see them below....... They are beautiful, aren't they?

If you can remember describing the smell of ammonia -- "pungent" released from one of the Chemistry Laboratory session when we were carrying out in college, you will never miss this!!

In fact, I used to pass by quite a number of stores selling them along the street, but I was afraid to try because of the unhygenic atmosphere, hence I never get to try them....until few days ago........... the canteen workers cooked them for everybody........

Yes, everybody in the firm came to the canteen will never miss to "pick" them....

And to my surprise, most of the people loved it and gave me the "wow" reply. According to some of them, this home-made is very clean and is authentic....

They were presented in 2 "versions"- 1. appetizer - cold 2. deep fried.

I can take only 1 of the appetizer type but 4 to 5 pieces of the deep fried versions...
They taste good!!

Having tried this, I can sort of understand why most of the time people don't mind the smell in most of the toilets they visited.........haha..:) (am i starting to accept them too???)........

Food - Roast Goose

Yesterday I was invited for a dinner with a colleague who will be leaving China in a week time.
So, the dinner was held in a restaurant which is located not far away from where we work. (in fact, it was less than 10 minutes by car)

The menu was fabulous. It contains many nice pictures of food which is really easy for customer to choose what to eat by just pointing to the pictures. However, the roast dishes were not presented in pictures, so I went through the lists and was found out that I was craving for roast goose.

It has been while since I last tasted a nice roast goose dish. The majority of roast goose that I have come across is that the skin is roasted but the fat underneath is not roasted. So, as the biggest fan of non-fat eater myself, that sensation is really disgusting. I literally just eat the skin and "throw" the fat away.

However, this roast goose that I had is something really different. It is not only that it has been roasted to an extent that the skin is roasted but part of its fat underneath is also "crispily" roast. The most important feature was that it was served warm. On top of that, by dipping onto the lemon gravy really cut the sensation of "fat"........

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