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Skriven 2006-06-09 10:14:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CAROL SHENKENBERGER
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 CS> I was able to show him I knew by picking up a pot, and putting other
 CS> things in there that he had which would make a good soup base with
 CS> them then putting the little baggie on top (grin).

Great idea, one that I hadn't encountered before. 

 CS> His eyes popped open and this lovely smile developed and he offered

When you make it clear that you actually want to communicate,
people generally become more tractable, even friendly at times.

 CS> with a little ingenuity.  Anyways, i now have this fine powder to add
 CS> to it that looks a little like what I imagine crushed dried fishskin
 CS> might be like and it smells a bit like seaweed with a vaguely fruity
 CS> undertone and is very very HOT.  He demo'd that you use just a pinch at
 CS> a time for a pot of soup.  I am pretty sure it's mixed seaweed, dried
 CS> fish, and some sort of hot horseradish-family item?

Not familiar with this particular one, but as you know all the
Asian countries have various togarishi-like seasoning mixtures.

 CS> For the others, if you go to Asia, when shopping bring a pencil with
 CS> eraser and a small pad of 3x5 roughly sized paper for use with
 CS> imagination and note taking ;-)

This is also a good idea, but you can't take full credit for it,
as it's been used since time immemorial. The most poignant example
of pencil-pad communication is that between Beethoven and his
friends and visitors, in the 1820s when he had gone stone deaf.

 CS> Oh another good buy there, not food though, was a nice soap.  I love
 CS> my nice smelly soaps!  (Carol's soap making interests me immensely!). 
 CS> On a ship with limited room, you find the high grade 'good stuff' is
 CS> all you want to ever get.  I'd tell you the name but I can't.  It's in
 CS> Thai script.

What does it smell like?

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 CS> find good times when we are off work and this Sunday is a 'off day
 CS> underway' with a chili cookoff.
 CS> I'll see what the chili cookoff underway offers in an hour or so. 
 CS> Might not be enough left to share since there are close to 3,000 people
 CS> underway right now.

How'd you do?

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

      Title: CHICKEN WRAPPED IN LETTUCE - LARB GAI
 Categories: Poultry, Chicken, Main dish, Thai, Oriental
      Yield: 4 servings

      2 tb Soy Sauce
      1 tb Fish Sauce
      2 ts Lemon Juice
      1 ts Water
  1 1/2 ts Sugar
    1/2 ts Black Pepper
    1/4 c  Vegetable Oil
      2    Large Garlic Cloves, Minced
      2    Whole Chicken Breasts,
           Boned, Skinned, Cut
           Into 1/2 inch Chunks
    1/2    Medium Onion, Thinly Sliced
      1    Small Red Bell Pepper,
           Slivered
    1/4 c  Packed Mint Leaves
      2    Serrano Chilies, Sliced
           Lengthwise
      8    Butter-Lettuce or Other
           Leaf-Lettuce Leaves

  Directions: Combine soy sauce, fish sauce, lemon juice, water, sugar
  and pepper in a small bowl; set aside. Heat wok over high heat. Add
  oil and heat. Add garlic and stir-fry 30 seconds. Add chicken and
  onion; stir-fry 1 minute. Add bell pepper and chilies; stir-fry 2
  minutes. Add soy-sauce mixture; cook, stirring, 30 seconds. Stir in
  mint; cook 20 seconds. Spoon onto a heated platter. To eat, tear
  lettuce leaves into pieces, spoon some of the chicken mixture onto
  each piece, wrap and eat. Source unknown

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