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| Thread ID: 88609 | 2008-04-02 05:24:00 | NZ/s Asian tolerance | qazwsxokmijn (102) | PC World Chat |
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| 655436 | 2008-04-03 00:38:00 | Corned Beef n Rice FTW!!! :) | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 655437 | 2008-04-03 00:38:00 | And asians always eat rice... | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 655438 | 2008-04-03 00:47:00 | I've been here for so many years.I don't see much variety of food I ask my friend hey, what's for dinner?He says roast The other friend say um baked potatoes with salad and steak So the food NZ always eat are potatoes,kumaras,salad,fries,steak,roast. Very plain and very boring if you ask me. No offence.I haven't really been eating NZ cooked food. I like it how there's more choice overseas.Hmm..I wanna go back soon That is certainly how I was brought up - trad food groups from British cultures - meat and two veg with spuds! And very boring it was too, because that is what you got every dinner time. However, you would be surprised at the variety that is eaten now by families from my generation (I am 62), and the wide range of foods that is eaten in my three childrens' homes in NZ and Aus. NZ fusion cooking draws from a huge range of influences in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. There is a significant shift towards a Mediterranean style diet amongst many people because of its healthy nature. I am afraid you have drawn a conclusion from a very limited sample! As roddy_boy has rather rudely suggesed, you are working from a stereotype! |
John H (8) | ||
| 655439 | 2008-04-03 00:59:00 | From another stereotype .. steak and wine is quite trendy and kumara and parsnips is way better than potatoes :p And hey, who doesn't like Mickey D's that some americans call by. I think its the way how its cooked. I haven't tried it but I think brussel sprouts are quite good how its cooked these days and never hated brocolli its one of my fav veges and courgettes and egg plant. On the asian sky tv, I don't watch it but you have celebrities teaching you how to cook western foods. I just prefer to watch cooking shows from a higher quality point of view. I was in HKG last time with family and went to a steak place, it was full and it was one of those normal ones, not high end, and they made the steak more sweet, haha .. :D Seriously we have potatoe least 2x or 3x a week with our asian foods. Gotta have that steam blue cod and not frozen ;) when we can get it .. and not shipped overseas. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 655440 | 2008-04-03 01:37:00 | And asians always eat rice... Thats true but we tend to have more variety of rice. Heard of sticky rice? You should try the mango fried rice with lobster. Taste really good. To be honest i dont like those chinese takeaway that sells smorgasboard food either. They are disgusting. Lol My grand parents use to make egg plant with eggs I guess nz food just not my type. Sometimes i wanna buy water cress and make water cress soup.its good for your body especially if you eat alot of fried stuff Seems not many people know water cress? How do you guys cook it? Your body. The inside is hot. English dont have this post of thing but thats what you call it in chinese anyway |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 655441 | 2008-04-03 02:01:00 | I agree with Laura's point of view. Personally the typical things I cook would be similar to what you'd see on Jamie Oliver's TV shows. A while back there was an appeal on Allblacks.com for soup recipes for when Ali Williams had his jaw broken. My chicken soup was mentioned on TV. And another original recipe I created is featured on a TV programme. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 655442 | 2008-04-03 02:09:00 | Anyone noticed at the botom of this age there are google ads for this thread there are asian dating adverts... :clap | Nomad (952) | ||
| 655443 | 2008-04-03 02:10:00 | Anyone noticed at the botom of this age there are google ads for this thread there are asian dating adverts... :clap Nope, because I have no adds on the bottom of this page... ...or the top, corner or side for that matter. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 655444 | 2008-04-03 02:13:00 | Anyone noticed at the botom of this age there are google ads for this thread there are asian dating adverts... :clap You should try and see if it works.Hahah.Im sure you'll get a good asian wife:) |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 655445 | 2008-04-03 02:15:00 | Thats true but we tend to have more variety of rice. Heard of sticky rice? (snip) Seems not many people know water cress? How do you guys cook it? (snip) Your body. The inside is hot. English dont have this post of thing but thats what you call it in chinese anyway Ninja: 1. Have you heard of different varieties of potatoes, and I am not just talking breeds like Cliff's Kidney and Jersey Benny - new, old, baked, boiled, roasted, stuffed, skins on, skins off, mashed, fried chips (French fries), "refried" boiled potatoes, Lyonnaise, etc etc! 2. Water cress is a traditional food of the English and Maori. Cress salads, cress sandwiches (yum), cress as a boiled vege, cress as an ingredient in boil ups. Have you not seen the heaps of people (often Maori and Pacific families) walking along creek beds and water races alongside roads, with plastic bags in their hands? They are collecting water cress. Go to Otara Market and you will see water cress. It is in most good fruit and vege stores on a regular basis. 3. I don't get the last sentence - the meaning may be lost in translation. Do you mean that some foods are heating and others are cooling? If so, yes, there is an equivalent in earlier European thinking (like 19th Century and earlier), but I am not sure it meant the same thing as it does in contemporary Chinese thinking. I don't think it is part of current Pakeha thinking about food. |
John H (8) | ||
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