Lunar New Year's Eve dinner: Chicken

Another fresh new year is hear, let's stuff our bellies with wonderful food and have a good sleep before living another year! The biggest event on Chinese New Year's Eve was the dinner with family. The meal was comprised of many delicious specialty food for the occasion. The dinner had soup, fish, vegetarian dish with 12+ ingredients, a chicken, and other tasty oily dishes. Chicken was one of the star dish (is expensive in HK). This chicken along with liver, gizzard and a fatty heart was steamed and was consider big and fat. It's served with ginger and spring onion sauce. Perhaps, in America we are used to seeing huge, boneless and skinless chicken breast, however those are nowhere to be seen in the wet market here in Hong Kong. The chicken was picked before the kill, then was feathered in the morning; we cooked it later the same evening. It's chicken with real chicken flavor, and tasty bones you can suck on.

perfect for winter: clay pot rice

Is cold and breezy in Hong Kong (not as much as in Philly) and all I want is a hot fluffy bowl of clay pot rice. So along with my cousins, we went to the place on top of a wet market where people are loud and rude, and smoke friendly. However, their clay pot rice was just what I need. I ordered the pot with Chinese sausages. It took around 35 to 45 min. for the pots to come, take time to cook, then when they arrived the server lifted the lids and poured some soysauce in and covered them. We let them sit while the sauce and juice all went into the rice for another 15 min. or so. And the taste was so perfectly warm and delicious. All I need was the rice; I didn't care much about the sausages, the rice was golden.

off to Hong Kong for the Chinese New Year!

Since I will be out of the country for two weeks, a week in Hong Kong and a week in Seoul, I will not be able to post often. But perhaps, if lucky, I will post some of the wonderful tasty food on this trip.

AD: japanese manner poster

pretty things: pitchers

1. whale pitcher by Jonathan Adler 2. Heffer pitcher 3. Owl pitcher from ModCloth.

some food and game fun 3

Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, is a socially irresponsible game that put baby Upa (the player) in horrifying, deadly situations. Looks quite fun, and the sweet stage is definitely tasty.

PACKAGE: MLK milk

Designed by Depot WPF Branding Agency. The brand visual identity consists of black and white graphic patterns which were taken from the real environment of a small milk farm. Lovely design, makes milk interesting and perhaps will attract more consumers to drink milk.

PACKAGE: abella honey

Abella is fine artisan honey produced and estate bottled in Galicia, Spain. “Abella” means bee in Gallego, the language spoken in Galicia. The branding is elegant, and I love the free-form, beveled effect of the jars. Designed by Bonnie Miguel, these Italian artisan jars are the perfect vessels for the sweet Spanish treat.

Edible tiles

Katja Gruijters did a series of edible lace experiments. These lace tiles are made of chocolate, confectionery, shortbread and shortcrust pastry. Just too beautiful for eating.

ironchef 2011 first round!

Home's Iron Chef 2011 begins! First round Elizabeth vs. Kien. Secret ingredient: pomegranate. Kien made a wonderfully light noodle dish, slightly sweet with a pomegranate sauce. Unfortunately was just the wrong season to make a summer dish. Elizabeth made a complete tasty, hardy meal; pan seared salmon on top of fluffy bed of couscous complimented with refreshing beet salad, pomegranate cream and yogurt sauce.

Winner >>> Elizatbeth! YAY! Thank you guys for an awesome meal! cheers !!!

meat carpet!

Check out these meat carpet here.

science cooking

Meat America show

Although I am not a big meat eater, but I really like this meaty series by Dominic Episcopo called "United Steaks of America". You can see his work now at Bambi Gallery, it is an artery-clogging, heart-attack of American spirit all in one meaty package.

pretty things: tea cups

These beautiful cups and saucers are from D-BROS. I especially like the "from down till dusk" and the "waltz" series.

Bread shoes!

 

Twin brothers and designers R&E Praspaliauskas have designed a collection of shoes made of bread. Every pair is unique and comes with a best suitable, hand-picked cardboard box. Get them here.

holiday cookies

Love these holiday sweater cookies from I am baker. I already miss the holidays!
Happy New Year! May everything be wonderful and sweet.