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merc

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:04:53 +1300

You don't get the visions that way...

Che Tibby

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:03:08 +1300

i'm holding out in my insistence that aro st bakery is better than moulin.

on another topic. those broad, dried black fungus you can buy from yan's supermarket in hopper st. i steep them in warm water, and add them to a garlic-chicken dish i make (a recipe not even…

Tony Kennedy

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:55:42 +1300

The Moulin Bakery, near the bypass? Real good stuff.

Baguette heaven – tilting at windmills is somehow appropriate for PA

Manakura

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:28:05 +1300

For all the crackers that wanna waffle about... well waffles, click here:
http://loveforwaffles.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-repsonse-3.html
The peeps over there might be happy for y'all to colonise their netspace with stupid insular discussions about European food, but I seem to have this vague memory that the blog that generated this thread was about…

Juha Saarinen

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:50:06 +1300

Oohh... is guoba like Japanese okoge?

I know of a Chinese guy in Malaysia who'd fit the Marley bill, at least when it comes to dreadlocks.

Chris Fung

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:35:24 +1300

Just because I want to see this thread continue, I will add my appeals for more recipes but only because I am still in search of decent guoba outside of China.

This is the one made with the rice crusts from the bottom of the pot.

I once had to…

Chuckie L

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:48:20 +1300

This white guy prefers reading your politics. Don't give a shit about food.

Kumara Republic

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:33:18 +1300

Upper Willis St, it's still there too thank crikey.

The Moulin Bakery, near the bypass? Real good stuff. Courtenay Place (just round the corner where I work) needs more bakeries like it.

Che Tibby

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:02:41 +1300

what-ay-what?!

where did my comment go? it went:

shhh.... i'm separating the wheat from the chaff

but is now gone!

and don't blame me, blimmin mr. austin started this. now there's a man who should try the freons at the aro st. bakery.

as for waffling, i think a bunch…

Ben Austin

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:25:25 +1300

If one must be an unconscious cultural patroniser, I'd far rather it be over issues of pancakes, waffles and other sweet, baked goods.

Oh and yeah, that bakery on Willis St is pretty good, although I've always been a little more partial to the rhubarb cake from the Bretzel bakeries.

the E

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:16:14 +1300

that Vietnamese French bakery

Upper Willis St, it's still there too thank crikey.

Tze Ming, your blog was so full of mouthwatering descriptions of exotic fare that I for one resorted to waffling on in my own little glutinous comfort eating zone. I couldn't even find the rice-paddy hat "e"…

kmont

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:13:44 +1300

He, he, bleached flour-based revenge indeed.....
Speaking of late chinese new year greetings, postshop is giving away these little red new years envelopes, I assume to Chinese customers. I got slipped a couple as I was buying up large on year of the pig stamps sets to send to Japan.…

Russell Brown

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:03:49 +1300

I don't know what I did to deserve this thread... oh that's right, I called Che a 'big cracker'!

There must be somewhere that serves big crackers for breakfast. Perhaps with smoked snapper on them.

But that political cookbook is a really good idea. Think about, take notes as you…

Russell Brown

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:01:57 +1300

Anyone tried that French crepery (that sounds a bit wrong) on Manners Mall? Manners Mall certainly never smelled so good.

No, but my friend Kerry took me to that Vietnamese French bakery one hungover morning. That's bloody genius that place.

PS: I hasten to add that valuing ethnic minorities solely…

Tze Ming Mok

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:03:34 +1300

I don't know what I did to deserve this thread... oh that's right, I called Che a 'big cracker'! This must be his bleached flour-based revenge.

Jeremy Andrew

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:42:44 +1300

Would you like a smoke and a pancake?
You know, a flapjack and a cigarette? No?
Cigar and a waffle? No?
Pipe and a crepe? No?
Bong and a blintz? No?
Then there is no pleasing you, Mister Powers!

the E

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:42:39 +1300

pardonez-moi, make that creperie.

the E

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:39:39 +1300

Anyone tried that French crepery (that sounds a bit wrong) on Manners Mall?

Manners Mall certainly never smelled so good.

A civil war is raging amongst the food service industry, between those who believe in freedom and light, and those who would deny us pancakes or waffles on demand.

It…

Stephen Judd

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:13:52 +1300

No, waffles can only be made available with a certificate from a doctor confirming that the diner's health is at risk.

Heather Gaye

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:05:21 +1300

waffles on demand

That phrase totally deserves its own political party.

Ben Austin

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:48:49 +1300

I can have divided loyalties on this I think. To be honest though, my first love was the humble pikelet.

Che Tibby

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:39:16 +1300

hmmmm.... pancakes?

weren't you a waffle man?

[writes "Ben Austin" on 'the list']

Ben Austin

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:29:36 +1300

It is worse than you think. A civil war is raging amongst the food service industry, between those who believe in freedom and light, and those who would deny us pancakes or waffles on demand. Their tentacles reach deeply into the media and organs of government too, why you would…

Joanna

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:19:03 +1300

I miss the waffles at the old Mezze in Auckland, the ones served with Chorizo, roast apples and possibly bacon as well...

Che Tibby

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:04:49 +1300

no worries man. i'm becoming increasingly convinced that the 'tendency' of wellington cafes to only offer pancakes at breakfast is in fact a vast conspiracy the likes of which requires exposition by the non-paranoid and most together of us of which i possibly could be the only one who's onto…

Ben Austin

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:57:30 +1300

Che, your good deed shall not be forgotten!

Che Tibby

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:47:51 +1300

sweet mother's kitchen on courtney does a perfectly passable waffle breakfast.

put down whatever you're doing, and RUN MAN, RUN!

Ben Austin

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:35:47 +1300

Anyone else encountered that internet fad of posting recipes for waffles when the poster thinks the discussion thread is an obvious troll? It is killing me, my craving for waffles is reaching previously unexplored heights and I’m pretty sure there are no waffle restaurants in Wellington.

merc

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:04:06 +1300

Look, can't we leave politics out of food! But then, The Little School Cook Book appeared by Chef Key...

Juha Saarinen

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:37:41 +1300

A political cookbook would be the thing. No, no, no need to thank me for such a splendid idea... stole it from the anarchists.

Che Tibby

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:09:29 +1300

bet it was andrew llewellyn.

Danyl Mclauchlan

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:54:20 +1300

__Last year at an Asia:NZ lunch, I met one of those white-guy journalists who always comes along to meet the natives. He made an immediate impression by telling me that he liked it best when I blogged about food, and that I should concentrate on that (rather than all that…

merc

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:24:28 +1300

Tze, you better put out your own cookbook, I will buy it. You do both food and politics really well, don't ever let the bastards grind you down (not that somehow I think you would).

Sichuan food is not a crowd-pleasing coconut-creamy curry nursemaid. It is an angular, vinegary taskmistress…

Mellopuffy

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:00:20 +1300

Ooh please can we have all recipes, especially the noodles. Also – any recommended black vinegar brands? – and will I be able to find in either Dunedin or Chch food markets?

Juha Saarinen

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:51:59 +1300

and the local pop-star-turned-writer known as the Tibetan Madonna

FREE TIBET

From Madonna at least.

And you're cooking... most definitely so. :)

Heather Gaye

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:38:14 +1300

Sichuan pepper... zing!

OH! OH! OH! That's what they were! The first day of my holiday in Beijing, I had a fishy soupy thing, chewed on one of those blighters and spent the rest of my meal feeling like I'd stuck my tongue on a lemon-flavoured battery. Traumatic, but perversely…

Gareth Elliott

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:39:35 +1300

I myself prefer it when you don't blog about food or food related topics because then I don't get hungry. Well, stomach hungry anyway.

Public Address

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:39:35 +1300

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