Food/Cooking thread

[Dubai]

Love it. Cheers, sounds really clever

[Delboy]

Pleasure

Win the comp. Next stop Masterchef! I'm not allowed to enter, but can gladly coach/provide advice from a number of sources ('scuse pun )

[Dubai]

Only thing is the peaches and asparagus were going to add colour, what about having a "spring roll" with the asparagus and peaches so you get both? Almost a deconstructed spring roll and a spring roll

[Dubai]

Or spring roll on bed of peaches and asparagus?

[Delboy]

It could work, but you loose the element of surprise and risk unbalancing your plate.

You could look to your third ingredient being Pak Choi; should grill quite nicely and provide colour.
 

[Claw75]

I had a dream about this last night (my subconscious is rubbish at choosing exciting dream action). A girl i went to school with and haven't seen for over 20 years was also entering the comp, but it was being done in two waves - she in the first, dubai in the second. I'd gone down to rail dubai, but spotted this girl and went to have a chat with her. "oh yah", she goes, "i'm doing chicken oysters served in oyster shells and...." and proceeds to reel off dubai's entire menu.  I say nothing but am outraged at this blatent plagiarism and seek out the judge (Al Murray), to grass her up.

I woke up before the winner was announced

[Delboy]

How did you get on Dave?

[Dubai]

Came 4th will do mini trip report when indoors in morning.

[Woodsey]

4 quid including some fried noodles and a diet coke 

Fooking loverly with some of the dipping sauce they gave me, dunno exactly what it was as they couldn't speak any English and my Thai is shite, but it was the usual Thai flavours with a bit of chilli heat thrown in

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Om nom nom nom 

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[paulhouk03]

Was the prawn heads juicy

[Woodsey]

Was the prawn heads juicy

Rofl, however I had the same tonight with some locals and they were wtf at me leaving the heads and troughed the lot down in no time 

[GreekStein]

Was the prawn heads juicy

Rofl, however I had the same tonight with some locals and they were wtf at me leaving the heads and troughed the lot down in no time 

assuming the sauce was fish sauce with chopped chili?

[Woodsey]

Was the prawn heads juicy

Rofl, however I had the same tonight with some locals and they were wtf at me leaving the heads and troughed the lot down in no time 

assuming the sauce was fish sauce with chopped chili?

100% not last night, I'm sure there was probably some in it as there always, but i hate the predominant flavour of fish sauce lol. More likely Lemograss/coriander/chilli sauce type thing.

Had a different sauce with it tonight, asked for a chilli sauce with the same dish and it was sour as hell and couldn't eat it (was seperate to the food luckily). Eventually got the waiter to understand that I wanted a sweet chilli sauce and I got something bordering what I wanted and that was fine.

The funniest thing is my bird knows what i do and don't like but it's still an effing minefield lol. It makes me stick to the same places and dishes I know because of that if possible.

[Woodsey]

Kapow Gai aka Basil and chilli fried chicken, really tasty and about as hot as I can handle. I was a pleb and ordered chips with it though   can't eat rice every day.

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Yam aka prawn and squid salad thing. Is ok but the sauce is a bit too sour for me.

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Stir fried mixed veg, I could happily just eat this, very tasty.

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[GreekStein]

Order a Pad kra pao moo woodsey! One of my favourites.

Where abouts are you atm?