By Chewxy, on November 23rd, 2009%
This was my favourite star constellation when I was younger:
Continue reading Orion
By Chewxy, on March 16th, 2009%
Most people who know me knows I love tea. Now you know too. I appreciate tea not the way Kevin Rose imbibes his tea (feel free to read his tea resources though). The San Fransciscan way simply isn’t for me. No, me, I prefer something more traditional, and way less of the American bastardization of what tea is (case in point: Starbucks chai…most wtf drink ever). I list among my favorites, longjing (龙井), puer (普洱), and when available, piluochun (碧螺春) rather than just generic “green tea”.
Now, amongst the three of those, I have most plentiful stock in longjing, and I drink it every day. Longjing is also very versatile. Asides from plain drinking, I once accidentally discovered it to be awesome to be used in cooking (I accidentally dropped some loose leaves into a salmon steak while marinating it once – putting it into the oven was awesome).
So, this morning, I took out a T-bone steak to defrost. It was a rather old meat. Not old in that it has past its use-by date, but old in the sense that the fridge doesn’t do a good job freezing the meat. As such, the meat looked stale. It probably wouldn’t taste good if I just cooked it thus. The solution is simple – marinate the meat! Continue reading Tea Bone Steak
By Chewxy, on December 7th, 2008%
While my dear Silkrose went to look for good food, I cooked good food (that’s a lot of oo’s in the sentence – if I feed an Ood… oh bugger that). I made Hokkien Prawn Mee, Penang style.
And here are the recipe and instructions (+pictures). What you need:
- fresh tiger prawns, shell included.
- pork ribs (no replacement possible for pork, the taste would be very different and horrible)
- Hokkien noodles
- shallots
- various spices – 1 handful of peppercorns, 1 star anise, 1 cinnamon stick, 10-12 dried chilli, a bunch of cloves, 2 tablespoons brown sugar (not raw sugar)
How to cook? Continue reading Hokkien Prawn Noodles
By Chewxy, on June 13th, 2008%
To break the monotony of my Kyoto observations (there’s more to come), I’m going to post pictures of toys I bought from Japan, and a comic sorta thing. Be aware though, it’s not safe for work. Lo and behold:
Continue reading Toys From My Kyoto Trip [NSFW]
By Chewxy, on February 25th, 2008%
I got 2 new whiteboards. One for my room and one for the living room/lounge. I immediately wanted to do a Randall Munroe, but held the thought for a party, as Sean had pointed out that a party ain’t fun without a whiteboard. Surely advice from two very smart people (one’s my age and had already worked for NASA, and the other’s a cosmologist – go figure) couldn’t be wrong!
And they weren’t! Here on in, I chronicle the story of my whiteboards in mostly pictures. Here’s the whiteboard a few hours after Australia Post dropped it at my door:
It’s still plastic wrapped and all. My housemates have already doodled on it.
Continue reading The Case For Whiteboards
By Chewxy, on January 26th, 2008%
Right. I had a local showing of my movie, Web of Lies in my house two days ago. Almost everyone I invited turned up (save a few exceptions, and 2 cast members were unavailable). Not much is needed to say. I’m not that satisfied with how the movie turned out (the boom microphone picked up way too much bass), but here is the story in pictures:
Continue reading Web of Lies Local Premiere Party++
By Chewxy, on January 16th, 2008%
