Discussion Friday

[geraineon]

It's time for Discussion Friday again~!

I woke up really hungry so in my quest to make everyone as hungry as I am, we're going to talk about food.

Does reading make you hungry? Have you read a particular good description of food or cooking in a c-novel* that made you salivate? Or perhaps you've read something that sounds absolutely atrocious (which makes you want to try it for Science). Did anything you read inspire you to cook, or seek that dish out?

Share them and let's make everyone hungry!

*feel free to very loosely interpret c-novel here for Discussion Friday, e.g., Chinese web-novels, Chinese novels, Chinese novellas/short stories, other language novels translated into Chinese, novels by Chinese (nationality or diaspora) published in non-Chinese language

Comments

[geraineon]

Lol yeah! It's usually pork ribs + some other vegetables so we had pork ribs + radish, pork ribs + lotus root, pork ribs + old cucumber (I really, really love this because I like eating the cucumber). Sometimes, the pork ribs + lotus roots also comes with groundnuts). So homey and comforting. It's something I try to make for myself once in a while here (because I always forget the prep work of actually defrosting the meat, and the soup needs to boiled for so long to be good so I end up making anchovy seaweed soup instead which is a lot faster).

[halfcactus]

Radish was the first closest equivalent I had in mind! My mom does potato and one leafy vegetable… And sometimes when someone gifts us with bak kut teh sachets we forego the vegetables altogether hahaha.

My fav part about these types of soups is that if the meat isn’t tender enough for lunch, it’ll be tender and the broth more flavorful at dinner. :’)

[geraineon]

Ahh, I don't think my family uses potatoes... oh wait, we do! ABC soup! I have all the ingredients for ABC soup, so maybe another day I'll make it.

Yes!! The meat is sooo good after boiling for a long time, and deepens in flavour over time. And soup serves as something on the side, plus can be eaten with rice. It's almost dinner time now and I'm hungry XD

[halfcactus]

Yeah boiled pork + potatoes + greens (+ optional corn) soup comes from my Filipino side... ABC seems specifically Malaysian Chinese? And a perfect soup for when you're sick. :')

[full_metal_ox]

And sometimes when someone gifts us with bak kut teh sachets we forego the vegetables altogether hahaha.

Speaking of bak cut teh: here’s a lyrical paean to 肉骨茶 (Meat Bone Tea) (and a rich infusion of poetry into feeding aer special someone) by S. Qiouyi Lu, from Uncanny Magazine, September/October 2016:

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/meat-bone-tea/

[geraineon]

Thank you for sharing! I liked it but it did make me realize I have no clue what many of the herbs are called in English XD

It makes buying herbs overseas incredibly hard unless I can drop by to a shop selling herbs and just ask for what I want...