Monday, 1 October 2007

First cooking experience

IW: Perfect
EW: Perfect

Today is my first time cooking pasta. My friend bought a huge bag from tesco. Can probably last him for a month. I was put in charge of cooking the fussili and heating the instant sauce. Alright, I admit that I didn't actually need cooking skill for this but still...Anyway, my friends decided to prepare other chinese dishes - fried ham with potato, fried tofu and fried leftover vermicelli with a kind of plastic vege coz the pasta sauce wasn't enough to feed 4 persons.

As we were cooking, we realised there weren't enough cooking utensils and used the utensils around the kitchen (some of which were borrowed with permission from a Thai flatmate). Some time later, a flatmate came in to cook his lunch and he started looking at what we were doing. Actually, he was looking at the utensils we were using as some of it belongs to him! When he pointed out that this and that utensils belong to him, we really felt bad and my friend started apologising and cleaning his utensils. But he was very nice and said it's ok THIS TIME. So, in order to compensate, we invited him to join us and he spent the rest of the hour watching us demonstrating our cooking skill. And, he shared his japanese rice with us, which he cooked using the microwave and ended up being soggy.

Comments...
I think I have a very different taste bud from the chinese. While I thought that the pasta was a bit too sour, they thought it was bland. And the fried vermicelli too salty, they thought it was just nice. Difficult...It horrified me to see the amount of salt they pour over the dishes.

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