Ordinary Saturday

I slept until 10:30a.m. today, and it's considered very 'lazy' because our lovely summer sun was already up at 4:30a.m pre-heating anything things that's possible within it's reach for 6 hours. Pretty hardworking, I say.

And do you know that you can tell a lot about a person from what they think of first thing in the morning? I say that because I think of the same thing everyday.

When I awake from the slumber of sweet dreams, the first thing I think of is F O O D. Always.

I live for food, you see. Or rather, good food.

I heated up my leftover SHAO BING (chinese bread) from yesterday in a thick layer of olive oil using my wok and sandwiched a slice of nice chinese cheddar cheese in between. The outcome was crispy bread profusing with a nice fermented smell. (Rule of thumb, never forget the importance of smell.)



Oh , I love healthy fattening food!

I then treated myself to many hours of Chinese weekend TV programmes, especially the news, which were really entertaining because they have very different perspectives of world events as compared to western media. You can see genuine compassion and readiness to take proper action to correct things.

It's very Zen-like.

They are concerned about world cultures and heritage and have a lot of intelligent things to say about them, too. I never thought I would say this but TV can sometimes be pretty educating and deep! Really do make me ponder how long have we all been 'brain washed' by Ang Mohs' media and their biased perspectives. I.e.

1. overly stressed on surface values
2. jumping into conclusions too eagerly
3. measuring the world with a so-called scientific method that's not scientific at all.

:-)

Anyway, back to food. hehe

I went to dinner with my Taiwanese classmate and we ate at this place called "American Beef Noodle", though nothing we ordered there looked American at all.


Note how similar the logo is to KFC

I think it's a summer thing but the chinese like Liang Cai 凉菜 (cooled veggie) as starters. So we ordered marinated cabbage and sesame tofu. The cabbage was just UNAPPERTIZING. It's too sour. They don't have the habit of balancing vinegar with sugar.



The tofu shreds was superb. Shandong tofu has got a unique hard texture and sesame oil is a lot thicker in China than those available in Malaysia.



If you ever happened to be in Shandong and you are that kind of people who, like me, couldn't get use to all the salt and ajinomoto in Shandong or all the stir-fried kind of non-western dishes and couldn' t bare to eat rice every freaking meal, you can always order noodle.

Noodle is never a WRONG dish to order here. The noodle are mostly handmade and bouncy. And surprisingly, they don't tend to put salt or ajinomoto in the soup base, well at least not the whole pot. I strongly recommend trying Shandong noodle. :-)