Comments on: Culinary Dreaming http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:09:37 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cookin’ | Cosmic Variance http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12094 Cookin’ | Cosmic Variance Thu, 02 Mar 2006 23:21:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12094 [...] So here is the ultimate “what I had for dinner last night” post. (Except it was not last night, but some nights ago.) People asked for this, and so here it is….. It is the promised report on my noodle dish experiments, inspired by my wonderful Walkabout culinary experiences in Taiwan, described in several posts earlier (see e.g. here, here, here……) [...] [...] So here is the ultimate “what I had for dinner last night” post. (Except it was not last night, but some nights ago.) People asked for this, and so here it is….. It is the promised report on my noodle dish experiments, inspired by my wonderful Walkabout culinary experiences in Taiwan, described in several posts earlier (see e.g. here, here, here……) [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12107 Clifford Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:30:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12107 Ah...yes I agree totally. I looked up the chain and saw form their website that there was no Tainan branch, but conjectured tht maybe the commenter called Anon knew better than I and perhaps the site was out of date.... so your clarification was very helpful. Thanks! -cvj Ah…yes I agree totally. I looked up the chain and saw form their website that there was no Tainan branch, but conjectured tht maybe the commenter called Anon knew better than I and perhaps the site was out of date…. so your clarification was very helpful.

Thanks!

-cvj

]]> By: Huei-Shih Liao http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12106 Huei-Shih Liao Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:26:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12106 Let me supplement a little bit: Ding Tai Fung has no branch in Tainan, actually in any place other than Taipei in Taiwan. Considering the place pictured above with the large baskets with the steamed dumplings... is "Wan-Chuan-Hao", a snack store aged more than 100 years. I have tried various steamed dumplings in Ding Tai Fung. They taste good but not good enough for the extravagant price. At a fair price, we can easily find ones with (almost) equal quality. As for other delicacies served in Ding Tai Fung, I have not tried yet and no comment on them. Let me supplement a little bit:

Ding Tai Fung has no branch in Tainan, actually in any place other than Taipei in Taiwan.

Considering the place pictured above with the large baskets with the steamed dumplings… is “Wan-Chuan-Hao”, a snack store aged more than 100 years.

I have tried various steamed dumplings in Ding Tai Fung. They taste good but not good enough for the extravagant price. At a fair price, we can easily find ones with (almost) equal quality. As for other delicacies served in Ding Tai Fung, I have not tried yet and no comment on them.

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12093 Clifford Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:09:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12093 Dear Huei-Shih, Welcome to the blog!!! I'm so happy to see a comment from you, especially since my memory of a number of the names and history of various things I learned is fading. Thanks for the reminder! Feel free to add to (or subtract from) anything I say as a result of further memory failures.... Thanks for being charitable about the chopsticks. It was only that one time, really. And I happened to take a picture of it, embarrassingly enough.....In my defence, it was very late at night and I'd not had that much sleep the night before! Cheers, -cvj Dear Huei-Shih,

Welcome to the blog!!! I’m so happy to see a comment from you, especially since my memory of a number of the names and history of various things I learned is fading. Thanks for the reminder!

Feel free to add to (or subtract from) anything I say as a result of further memory failures….

Thanks for being charitable about the chopsticks. It was only that one time, really. And I happened to take a picture of it, embarrassingly enough…..In my defence, it was very late at night and I’d not had that much sleep the night before!

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Huei-Shih Liao http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12105 Huei-Shih Liao Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:51:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12105 Dear Clifford, So happy to be notified of your more posts about food in Tainan. The name of the noodle is "Danzih Noodles". "Danzih" is the stall which can be carried on shoulders and then people could sale the noodle anywhere. The name of the original and then most famous/delicious stall saling "Danzih Noodles" is "Du-Hsiao-Yue", which means to overcome the slack season (of fishing). As for the chopsticks in the dish......it's Ok. We all know you were not really coarse, just really excited/eager to take the picture then forgot the details. We were there and felt the excitement so we understood. Finally, I am looking forward to your noodle experiments very much. Best wishes, Huei-Shih Dear Clifford,

So happy to be notified of your more posts about food in Tainan.

The name of the noodle is “Danzih Noodles”. “Danzih” is the stall which can be carried on shoulders and then people could sale the noodle anywhere. The name of the original and then most famous/delicious stall saling “Danzih Noodles” is “Du-Hsiao-Yue”, which means to overcome the slack season (of fishing).

As for the chopsticks in the dish……it’s Ok. We all know you were not really coarse, just really excited/eager to take the picture then forgot the details. We were there and felt the excitement so we understood.

Finally, I am looking forward to your noodle experiments very much.

Best wishes,
Huei-Shih

]]> By: Kea http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12104 Kea Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:16:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12104 Mmmm - salted whole crabs, Chinese chicken-and-jellyfish, fresh dates, steak tartare the French way, Pacific rock oysters (yuuummmm) - or, I know! - a Kaiseki meal with custard and fish soup with golden balls in it and melt-in-your-mouth tempura. Sigh. This isn't fair, Clifford. I think your posts should be banned. Mmmm – salted whole crabs, Chinese chicken-and-jellyfish, fresh dates, steak tartare the French way, Pacific rock oysters (yuuummmm) – or, I know! – a Kaiseki meal with custard and fish soup with golden balls in it and melt-in-your-mouth tempura. Sigh. This isn’t fair, Clifford. I think your posts should be banned.

]]> By: Kaleberg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12103 Kaleberg Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:09:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12103 I'm loving this series of reports. It sounds like Tainan is food heaven. It sounds great, and I love the stores with the punchline, "Oh yes, the xxx is great here, but there is this little place in Tainin ..." As for ginger. I'll stand by candied ginger for fighting seasickness. It even works in dinky little helicopters in choppy air, and it doesn't knock me out like Dramamine or Bonine. As for dumplings, I did a History of the Dumplings site a while back (actually in the early 80s) that should be familiar to many physicists: http://www.kaleberg.com/dumplings/dumplings.html As for the illuminating neon sign. Yes ducks, and yes chickens. It's always nice when a sign says what it means. I’m loving this series of reports. It sounds like Tainan is food heaven. It sounds great, and I love the stores with the punchline, “Oh yes, the xxx is great here, but there is this little place in Tainin …”

As for ginger. I’ll stand by candied ginger for fighting seasickness. It even works in dinky little helicopters in choppy air, and it doesn’t knock me out like Dramamine or Bonine.

As for dumplings, I did a History of the Dumplings site a while back (actually in the early 80s) that should be familiar to many physicists:

http://www.kaleberg.com/dumplings/dumplings.html

As for the illuminating neon sign. Yes ducks, and yes chickens. It’s always nice when a sign says what it means.

]]> By: Kea http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12102 Kea Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:02:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12102 I'm always dreaming of good food - hardly needs to be Valentine's day. Mmmm - a simple jungle curry at an upmarket Thai restaurant (I'm very poor so I haven't done this for years) made with fresh green peppercorns and served with al dente rice (this is quite an art, I think) - or maybe (one of my favourites) a big rare steak, or a home-cooked kangaroo stew, or ... sigh. I’m always dreaming of good food – hardly needs to be Valentine’s day. Mmmm – a simple jungle curry at an upmarket Thai restaurant (I’m very poor so I haven’t done this for years) made with fresh green peppercorns and served with al dente rice (this is quite an art, I think) – or maybe (one of my favourites) a big rare steak, or a home-cooked kangaroo stew, or … sigh.

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12101 Clifford Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:00:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12101 Amara... thanks for that! Very interesting indeed and I had no idea that there was official terminology for the leggy (etc) italian tv "girls" (a phenomenon I'm aware of from watching italian tv)..... with regards freshness in the USa, see my earlier posts about the farmer's markets. At least in the big cities, freshness of many types of produce is not an issue any more..... For more exotic imported stuff that is not produced here, ok...there is to be some compromise. Cheers, -cvj Amara… thanks for that! Very interesting indeed and I had no idea that there was official terminology for the leggy (etc) italian tv “girls” (a phenomenon I’m aware of from watching italian tv)….. with regards freshness in the USa, see my earlier posts about the farmer’s markets. At least in the big cities, freshness of many types of produce is not an issue any more….. For more exotic imported stuff that is not produced here, ok…there is to be some compromise.

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-12100 Clifford Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:57:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/02/15/culinary-dreaming/#comment-12100 Hi Anon, Are you referring to the chain store selling the delicacies, or is that the name of a specific delicacy that I have forgotten. If the former then you are probably referring to the place pictured above with the large baskets with the steamed dumplings..... My host got a lot of things there for the party. Very tasty, if I recall. Cheers, -cvj Hi Anon,

Are you referring to the chain store selling the delicacies, or is that the name of a specific delicacy that I have forgotten. If the former then you are probably referring to the place pictured above with the large baskets with the steamed dumplings….. My host got a lot of things there for the party. Very tasty, if I recall.

Cheers,

-cvj

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