Topic: Sunday Dinner - The Amazing Race 16 Menu

[walkingpneumonia]

Wow - that looks complicated but it might be fun to try.

To be honest, I haven't recovered from the last episode in France. Champagne hangovers persist.

What is kangkong or water convolvulus? Does it have a North American equivalent? We have a lot of Asian markets in Toronto, but I hate looking like a stupid gwailo by asking for the wrong thing.

[georgiapeach]

That looks yummy! If you are only using the shrimp heads, I'll take the shrimp please! I'm a little hungry, all we got in the Seychelles was turtle soup  and coconut!! 

[Neobie]

I believe kangkong in English is water spinach, and if trying to find it in Toronto one might try asking for 蕹菜 (Mandarin yongcai, Cantonese ungchoi) or 通心菜 (Mandarin tongxincai, Cantonese tongsamchoi). I would gladly have a meal with just that and rice.

Hokkien mee is an absolute delight.

[Evan_Weinstein]

anyway is not water spinach, it's spinach alone, i wonder why many people got confused by adding water infront, sighs

and in chinese characters is not 通心菜 is 空心菜, sorry peach, i know you hate me using chinese characters here.

hmm, sambal chilli with spinach with rice is cool, but it could be heaty as well, so try a bowl of green bean soup will be good

I believe kangkong in English is water spinach, and if trying to find it in Toronto one might try asking for 蕹菜 (Mandarin yongcai, Cantonese ungchoi) or 通心菜 (Mandarin tongxincai, Cantonese tongsamchoi). I would gladly have a meal with just that and rice.

Hokkien mee is an absolute delight.

you may want to learn how to prepare the dish here, and also the preparations of sambal chilli

Sambal Kangkong/Sambal Spinach: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id65.html
Sambal Chilli: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id136.html

[georgiapeach]

I don't hate Chinese? I just want everyone to be able to read and understand....so use them all you want, just be sure the rest of us have a translation, when possible.

[jerseydude]

anyway is not water spinach, it's spinach alone, i wonder why many people got confused by adding water infront, sighs

and in chinese characters is not 通心菜 is 空心菜, sorry peach, i know you hate me using chinese characters here.

hmm, sambal chilli with spinach with rice is cool, but it could be heaty as well, so try a bowl of green bean soup will be good

I believe kangkong in English is water spinach, and if trying to find it in Toronto one might try asking for 蕹菜 (Mandarin yongcai, Cantonese ungchoi) or 通心菜 (Mandarin tongxincai, Cantonese tongsamchoi). I would gladly have a meal with just that and rice.

Hokkien mee is an absolute delight.

you may want to learn how to prepare the dish here, and also the preparations of sambal chilli

Sambal Kangkong/Sambal Spinach: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id65.html
Sambal Chilli: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id136.html

Actually 通心菜 and 空心菜 are the same name, just different words for it.

This comes to show how confusing Chinese can be. Remember TAR14 Kisha and Jen at the Chinese restaurant 

[Evan_Weinstein]

oh, is that how you pronounce in China, now i learnt another new name for spinach

anyway is not water spinach, it's spinach alone, i wonder why many people got confused by adding water infront, sighs

and in chinese characters is not 通心菜 is 空心菜, sorry peach, i know you hate me using chinese characters here.

hmm, sambal chilli with spinach with rice is cool, but it could be heaty as well, so try a bowl of green bean soup will be good

I believe kangkong in English is water spinach, and if trying to find it in Toronto one might try asking for 蕹菜 (Mandarin yongcai, Cantonese ungchoi) or 通心菜 (Mandarin tongxincai, Cantonese tongsamchoi). I would gladly have a meal with just that and rice.

Hokkien mee is an absolute delight.

you may want to learn how to prepare the dish here, and also the preparations of sambal chilli

Sambal Kangkong/Sambal Spinach: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id65.html
Sambal Chilli: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id136.html

Actually 通心菜 and 空心菜 are the same name, just different words for it.

This comes to show how confusing Chinese can be. Remember TAR14 Kisha and Jen at the Chinese restaurant 

[jerseydude]

oh, is that how you pronounce in China, now i learnt another new name for spinach

anyway is not water spinach, it's spinach alone, i wonder why many people got confused by adding water infront, sighs

and in chinese characters is not 通心菜 is 空心菜, sorry peach, i know you hate me using chinese characters here.

hmm, sambal chilli with spinach with rice is cool, but it could be heaty as well, so try a bowl of green bean soup will be good

I believe kangkong in English is water spinach, and if trying to find it in Toronto one might try asking for 蕹菜 (Mandarin yongcai, Cantonese ungchoi) or 通心菜 (Mandarin tongxincai, Cantonese tongsamchoi). I would gladly have a meal with just that and rice.

Hokkien mee is an absolute delight.

you may want to learn how to prepare the dish here, and also the preparations of sambal chilli

Sambal Kangkong/Sambal Spinach: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id65.html
Sambal Chilli: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id136.html

Actually 通心菜 and 空心菜 are the same name, just different words for it.

This comes to show how confusing Chinese can be. Remember TAR14 Kisha and Jen at the Chinese restaurant 

This isn't Spinach. Spinach is 菠菜(pronounced bocai).

[Evan_Weinstein]

this is the actual words when you see in a typical singapore market

oh, is that how you pronounce in China, now i learnt another new name for spinach

anyway is not water spinach, it's spinach alone, i wonder why many people got confused by adding water infront, sighs

and in chinese characters is not 通心菜 is 空心菜, sorry peach, i know you hate me using chinese characters here.

hmm, sambal chilli with spinach with rice is cool, but it could be heaty as well, so try a bowl of green bean soup will be good

I believe kangkong in English is water spinach, and if trying to find it in Toronto one might try asking for 蕹菜 (Mandarin yongcai, Cantonese ungchoi) or 通心菜 (Mandarin tongxincai, Cantonese tongsamchoi). I would gladly have a meal with just that and rice.

Hokkien mee is an absolute delight.

you may want to learn how to prepare the dish here, and also the preparations of sambal chilli

Sambal Kangkong/Sambal Spinach: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id65.html
Sambal Chilli: http://samfusionz-recipes.tripod.com/id136.html

Actually 通心菜 and 空心菜 are the same name, just different words for it.

This comes to show how confusing Chinese can be. Remember TAR14 Kisha and Jen at the Chinese restaurant 

This isn't Spinach. Spinach is 菠菜(pronounced bocai).

[Slowhatch]

Because of the pit stop, you could start here and then browse the links here (plenty of pictures) to see if there's something you would like.

[apskip]

Slowhatch:

A link on one of your two major links to "Hawker Food" reminded me that Penang is not the optimal place to get that. Singapore is. I believe Anthony Bourdain had a whole program on hawker food in Singapore, which he rated generally extremely cheap and delicious.

[redskevin88]

Slowhatch:

A link on one of your two major links to "Hawker Food" reminded me that Penang is not the optimal place to get that. Singapore is. I believe Anthony Bourdain had a whole program on hawker food in Singapore, which he rated generally extremely cheap and delicious.

he's correct. you can get a meal for around US$2 to US$3...

[georgiapeach]

I remember having a wonderful meal in an outside food area in Singapore...yum!!

[smiley]

Interesting...i'm not the only one that does this

[apskip]

I remember having a wonderful meal in an outside food area in Singapore...yum!!

I have just subscribed a magazine Sherman's Travel for high-end luxury travel (which leaves me out but it's fun to read it to learn things). One tour offered in the latest issue is in Singapore, a 3 hour $150/person, including food and transportation by www.makansutra.com. The review of that tour says:

Singapore's food culture is distinguished by its unique blend of Chinese, Indian and Malay flavors as well as popularity and high quality of its street carts. Some 40 years ago government official literally move all the vendors into regulated, sanitary hawker centers. Today there are 120 such stations, each containing about 150 stalls (wow, that's 18,000 total). Each stall specializes in just one or two dishes, such as fish-head curry, grilled stingray, or spring rolls of stewed turnips. In turn, every Singaporean approaches eating with a sports fan's fanaticism, each pledging allegiance to this stand of that vendor... K.F.Seetoh is the founder of Makansutra, Singapore's street and restaurant food bible. On the side he organizes tours of the city's top hawker stands. Even with a guidebook, finding these spots would be near impossible since many lack official names and clear addresses. His company can also arrange market tours, lessons on the country's cultural heritage and cooking classes.

[Evan_Weinstein]

if there is a dish to introduce singapore, i will say curry fish head, cos chinese, malays and even indians, they have their own way to prepare this dish, for eurasians, normally they will prepare the chinese and muslim way