Sorry, I've been away
Dec. 15th, 2006 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quisletI've been out of town on business, so I haven't been posting of late. Had lots of yummy foods, though. I learned about Thai river prawns, Filipino mangrove crabs, and had my very first properly made caesar salad. ¡Que delicioso!
The Thai river prawn is a freshwater shrimp that's commonly as fat as two fingers, at least 8 inches long from tip to tail. It looks like a big tiger prawn, but the meat is as soft as a cloud, as sweet as a crayfish, and there's more than one bites-worth of meat. I had them grilled, in soups, pretty much every meal while I was there. Yummmm!
The Filipino "king" crabs live in the roots of mangrove trees, in brackish water where the river meets the South China Sea. They're big and fat, a lot like dungeness from San Francisco or Seattle. There's lots of meat on them, huge over-thick claws, candy-apple red when cooked, and they're delightful in soy sauce and scallions.
The caesar salad wasn't Asian at all, but it was perfectly executed: hand-torn romaine, fresh beaten egg, homemade croutons, with the ingenious addition of bacon crumbles and tabasco (but only with my approval). Everything was made & assembled at tableside, and it was so delicious that I wanted to lick my plate clean. It was even better than the only properly made cobb salad that I've ever had. Simple and sublime.
¡Buen provecho!
The Thai river prawn is a freshwater shrimp that's commonly as fat as two fingers, at least 8 inches long from tip to tail. It looks like a big tiger prawn, but the meat is as soft as a cloud, as sweet as a crayfish, and there's more than one bites-worth of meat. I had them grilled, in soups, pretty much every meal while I was there. Yummmm!
The Filipino "king" crabs live in the roots of mangrove trees, in brackish water where the river meets the South China Sea. They're big and fat, a lot like dungeness from San Francisco or Seattle. There's lots of meat on them, huge over-thick claws, candy-apple red when cooked, and they're delightful in soy sauce and scallions.
The caesar salad wasn't Asian at all, but it was perfectly executed: hand-torn romaine, fresh beaten egg, homemade croutons, with the ingenious addition of bacon crumbles and tabasco (but only with my approval). Everything was made & assembled at tableside, and it was so delicious that I wanted to lick my plate clean. It was even better than the only properly made cobb salad that I've ever had. Simple and sublime.
¡Buen provecho!
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Date: 2006-12-15 05:51 pm (UTC)