After work, I joined my company’s bosses for dinner… once again, there was A LOT OF FOOD!! I think that’s how the Chinese banquet here is like… just many many dishes… not really huge portions but many different dishes… I cant really recall all the stuff that was laid on the table, and I probably don’t know most of their names… but what I can recall are a few special dishes…
1. fried silkworm pupae!!! Haha… in case you don’t know what that is, scroll down for a pic… I didn’t actually take that pic at the dining table, coz it’d be really weird with all the other bosses around… but I found the pic online, and found it really similar to what was served at the restaurant… there’s the crispy fried brown silkworm pupae, along with a dish of peanut/sesame powder as a dip to go with the pupae… when eating, you either pop the entire thing into your mouth (like what some of the others did) or you peel open the ‘shell’ of the pupa to remove this black thingy from inside that’s supposedly its midgut, then you just pop the rest of the pupa into your mouth! *crunch crunch crunch* Haha… It wasn’t as crispy as what I thought it'd be… but it was still slightly crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside… dont worry, it wasnt mushy or gooey… that would have been rather disgusting... haha… taste-wise, it was actually quite fragrant! Really quite 香, reminds me of this certain fried food that I’ve had before.. but I just couldn’t recall what that particular food item was… anyway, it was quite an adventurous experience, and I must say it was really not bad at all! Heard about its high nutritional value, especially in protein… =P
fried silkworm pupae!!!
2. honeyed sweet potato 蜜糖地瓜!! Gosh… this was super nice!! There’s this coating of honey, which makes the sweet potato pieces stick altogether… so you have to dip the sweet potato into a small bowl of water, in order for the sticky strands to harden so that you can separate the piece of sweet potato from the other pieces… I really loved it! Wonderful snack/dessert… yummy!!! =D once again, found a picture of this dish online...
honeyed sweet potato 蜜糖地瓜
3. huge pork bones/ribs or mutton bones/ribs… I didn’t try this… but it was an interesting dish… the waitress laid out plastic gloves for all of us, and basically you just wear the gloves and pick up a huge piece of that pork or mutton and just chew on it… basically saves you the trouble of dirtying your hands while eating such stuff… it was probably cooked with soya sauce or something… coz the colour reminded me of the typical braised pig’s trotters 卤猪脚 we eat in s’pore…
4. cucumber… the people here seem to like cucumber quite a lot… you often see it cooked with some meat, or taken raw like a salad… the unsliced cucumbers were just on the plate, along with some paste (probably some bean paste that tastes sweet and salty?) as a dip for the cucumber. It reminds me of the jap appetizer we had at ikoi jap restaurant… coz the paste that went along with it looked similar in colour…
anyway, a point to note about the Chinese banquet-style dinner here… the filling carbs dishes are only served towards the end of a meal… we were already very full when the waitress walked in with 2 plates of steamed dumplings (饺子) and some corn bread thingy… the dumplings were too salty for my liking, while the corn bread was rather dry, coarse and tasteless… =S
over dinner, there were the usual smoking and drinking as well… not that I joined in… but still, guess my lifespan’s been shortened by another 5 years…hmm… actually, 2nd hand smoke is worse than 1st hand smoking right? Darn…I should’ve just grabbed that cigarette from them and smoked it on their behalf instead! =S then maybe my lifespan would just be shortened by 3 years… hahaha…
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