Monday, November 20

born.from.an.egg.on.a.mountain.top

Just like Monkey, I am on a quest too. It's a mission to find some decent asian food here in London. I think it's going to be a recurring theme that I will be whinging about.

In our short time here we have had some really bad stuff. I don't think the iron chef's here have heard of the word "flavour". I mean, either all the dishes taste the same as each other (ie. bland), or they get the ingredients totally wrong. Passing off egg noodle/soba noodle type thing in salty water as ramen is just not on (tip: don't go to Taro). I mean it was that bad I couldn't eat it. And what's the deal with cutting the chicken feet in half at yum cha (they do that at every place we have been too). Ripped off!

So we've come to lower our standards now ... if it tastes average then it is really good. We've found a few places that are pretty good: this thai place in Angel, japanese place at Piccadilly Circus and a Superbowl type place on the edge of chinatown in the city.

In the end, I am pretty sure I know where this quest will end ... in our own kitchen eating the food that we've cooked ourselves. Time to ask my parents for all those seclet Ly Inn recipes ...

4 comments:

ness said...

Haha. Why are you looking for Chinese food in London? You should be checking out the curries. If you wanted decent Chinese, you should have gone to Vancouver. UBC. Then we could all have the latest edition tshirts.

Meanwhile, why is your blog called eight minute? is that a personal thing...

Eddy Kiko said...

Why? Cos I am chinese and need my frequent fix of MSG.

Erm I think I will pass on the UBC tshirts ...

Anonymous said...

I'll make sure i'll have a nice bowl of Ramen for you over here. Might even send some more pictures next time.

Anonymous said...

Great, more aussies taking our jobs and a blogger,surprise surprise.
didn't we shipped you guys out 200 years ago and told you not to come back?
Hey you asian or something, that explains the eight minutes title. My lady friends tell me thats how long or short you guys last, not a good look island boy