Posts by Soon Lee
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to BenWilson,
Curry leaves? I love them. It's a key ingredient for adding authentic flavours to many spicy dishes.
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Susannah Shepherd,
Your reference to South Africa reminded me of bobotie which turns out to have an Indonesian origin. The first bobotie I ever had was in New Zealand and was made from a recipe in the Edmonds cookbook.
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Bart Janssen,
And in fact, curries are an example of fusion cuisine because it incorporates chillies that originate from the New World, just as Italian is equally a fusion cuisine when it uses tomatoes, and any European dish that uses potatoes. Virtually everything is fusion if you go back long enough.
I grew up eating curries so have no recollection of my first time. I do however remember my first curry in New Zealand, which was from a Chinese takeaway and was literally chicken chow mein with a spoonful of curry powder stirred in during cooking.
My first curry with at a Kiwi friends's was not much better. I had been invited to dinner, on arrival was greeted by friend saying, "You like this, Mum's cooking a curry." It was indeed "curry", made with store-bought Indian curry powder, sausages, sultanas and, *shudder*, apples.
Thankfully the intervening years has seen a real growth in the availability of authentic options.
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Thought I'd seen that name before. You can still stream the reading of his story "Wulfsyarn" from the RNZ National site.
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Marriage equality