{"id":151,"date":"2010-06-09T22:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-06-17T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T18:58:09","slug":"food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/a>In the last couple of days I have been on a long surburban bus ride, wanderered unknown streets, visited a beauty parlour\/weight loss centre, hospital\/doctors surgery and eyed food on display in streets.\u00a0 Sometimes I have done more than eye it.\u00a0 And I have taught some classes too.<\/p>\n

Today is a picture story about food because I don;t know enough to write about it.<\/p>\n

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On Sunday I went to the vegie market beside the canal which I missed the previous week.\u00a0 \u00a0This woman is making buns.\u00a0 This sort of set up is very common.<\/p>\n

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These 3 photos show a man cooking the food you see in the photo above.\u00a0 He worked like greased lightening to squeeze the dough through his hand & into the oil via a spoon.<\/p>\n

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The next shows the reult of the first cooking.\u00a0 It contains a dollop of brown sugar which provides the hint of colour.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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This woman is kneading dough and making buns in these photos. She has small packets of what I think is tofu which are usually placed in the buns.\u00a0 I didn’t stay for the final result.<\/p>\n

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Above are two of the stalls along the canal.<\/p>\n

The canal road \u00a0soon reached an intersection with a large tree-canopied street filled with food and other stalls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The photos are not particularly clear.\u00a0 However, the stalls they show are very common.\u00a0 The street is remarkable for the enormous deciduous trees which meet overhead.<\/p>\n

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This baked potato stall was on the corner of another large street.\u00a0 These stalls were very common a couple of months ago but this is the first I’ve seen for a while.\u00a0 On the other corner was a woman selling kebabs from a stall exactly like the one I used to visit and which then disappeared.\u00a0 She had the kebabs I like and we bought a couple.\u00a0 We were told the meat came from an ox.\u00a0 Hers didn’t taste as good as the other womans.<\/p>\n

In looking for the bus stop we found another market street.\u00a0 The first photo shows a very elaborate kebab cooking stall.\u00a0 It is easily visible from many bus routes and I was glad to encounter it when on foot although the light was going.<\/p>\n

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Before we passed these restaurants and stalls we also passed to a man lying in his wooden bed on the footpath.<\/p>\n

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I took this photo months ago.\u00a0 It is here because I found the kebab seller.\u00a0 When we were near the college I went through the entrance to the residential area where I’d met Baby the dog and had a meal the previous day.\u00a0 The kebab seller had relocated there and as it was evening she was at\u00a0 work.\u00a0 We bought some\u00a0kebabs but ate them before I could photographed them.\u00a0 She said they were pork.\u00a0 Theu don’t look like pork either. I’ve now had three opinions on their origin, chicken, ox, pork and I don’t actually believe any of them.<\/p>\n

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This and the remaining photos are from today.\u00a0 There is a street close to the college where market stalls, especially food related ones, abound in good weather.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a common kebab stall.\u00a0 I’ve never patronised one as all of the meat appears to be manufactured and that doesn’t appeal.<\/p>\n

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This man has a very modern manner of cooking his pancakes.\u00a0 All of the others I’ve seen have been cooked over a drum.\u00a0 The one with green vegies inside it is usually pretty good although the last one I ate had little flavour.<\/p>\n

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More footpath food stalls.<\/p>\n

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Above is the stall on the back of a tricycle and the contents of the containers.\u00a0 The ones on the left in the vehicle are hot foods, the rest are cold.<\/p>\n

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Hotpot restaurants are popular.\u00a0 This one is setting up for the evening.\u00a0 It consits of a bowl of stock; sometimes two with one being very spicy and the other milder.\u00a0 They sit over a gas burner as here or are kept hot with parafin.\u00a0 Sometimes you get a pot to yourself and other places its a communal pot for the table.\u00a0 You choose various vegies and meats along with noodles to dunk and cook.\u00a0 Its a challenge to fish out the noodles with chopsticks.<\/p>\n

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This is the only stall with a queue.\u00a0 We discovered a couple of our students at the head of the queue so I got to sample the food.\u00a0 It is like a big pancake covered with sesame seeds, some green chives maybe\u00a0and tastes a bit spicy.\u00a0Like all of this sort of thing it is sold by weight.\u00a0 It is cut into small pices and sold in a paper bag with a very long toothpick implement as a utensil for\u00a0 eating.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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You can see the bread on the scales and the toothpicky implement. It was quite tasty.<\/p>\n

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These were just some of the teas on sale.<\/p>\n

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Sunflower seeds, different varieties and sold for human consumption.\u00a0 They are extremely popular.\u00a0 They are larger than the ones I feed to my galah.<\/p>\n

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Pickled foods<\/p>\n

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Some sort of steamer, probably for\u00a0some sort of buns.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Peking Duck stall.\u00a0 Now I know what it is I will return and try some.<\/p>\n

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waiting for business<\/p>\n

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Rice kebab in its cooking container.<\/p>\n

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Cook with the unpackaged kebab.\u00a0 It is dunked in the sugar visible on the tray.\u00a0 It tasted pretty good.<\/p>\n

This photo is here in response to a comment.\u00a0 It came from the hole in the wall\u00a0restaurant I frequented in Tianjin a month or so ago.\u00a0 I had eaten there a couple of nights and on the occasion of the photo I had entered and put my head in the doorway of a room off the hallway while looking for staff.\u00a0\u00a0 A man was there eating something that looked pretty good so I told the newly emerged waitress that I’d have the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The photo shows what I received.\u00a0 It was cooked\/kept hot with a small paraffin burner underneath. \u00a0When I put my glasses on I discovered that the meat was crinkly\u00a0and not\u00a0the expected chicken.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0I ate some of it and there was nothing the matter with it apart from not knowing its source.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0However, it wasn’t tasty enough for me to abandon my scruples so I picked around it eating the vegetables minus the equivalent of about 5 years worth of chili intake.\u00a0 My thought was that it had once been someone’s intestine.\u00a0 Not a good thought for an Aussie raised on muscle meat.<\/p>\n

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