Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-06 Thread Bhairitu
The restaurant I went to yesterday doesn't have any black bean sauce dishes on the menu. What regional cuisine is that from? Most Chinese restaurants where I grew up in the northwest were Cantonese. Later Szechuan restaurants began opening as well as Mongolian. Thai seems to vary quite a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-06 Thread jr_esq
Bhairitu, It's a Cantonese dish, I believe.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-06 Thread Bhairitu
Like chop suey many of the Cantonese restaurants had westernized variations for the white devils. One of my favorites as kid was almond fried chicken. The Cantonese restaurants usually made with deep fried chicken topped with gravy. But other restaurants it's just stir fried chicken with

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-05 Thread Bhairitu
Speaking of which, I decided to try lunch at the Chinese restaurant at the top of the hill. Back in December of 2012 it closed as the folks who ran it retired. Then a new management took it opened it in January but they also closed last December. Their food was never popular and they seemed

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-05 Thread jr_esq
You should try pork ribs with bok choy and black bean sauce, and served with rice. If you haven't tasted it, you should try it. That's one of my favorite Chinese dishes. Also, Jupiter, a watery graha, will be exalted this summer in the sign of Cancer. So, it's not likely that a drought

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-05 Thread Share Long
I'm lesser yang in Chinese medicine and thus pork is supposedly very good for me. But I will have to love it from afar. Unless I undergo some personality transplant! Anything is possible. But some things are simply way more probable! On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 6:47 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-05 Thread Bhairitu
I've had other black bean sauce entrées. One local restaurant had an interesting noodle dish with black bean sauce. Chinese food ain't all that special to me because I can actually cook up some of it myself. Madame Wong's Long Life Chinese Cookbook is especially good for recipes and

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-05 Thread jr_esq
Share, I'd bet that there's probably at least one Chinese restaurant in Fairfield, IA. You can request for this dish even if it's not on the menu. When we were passing through a little town in Idaho, I was surprised there was one Chinese restaurant there. And, the owner and his family

[FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-02 Thread Bhairitu
Punxsutawney Phil calls for 6 more weeks of winter: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/02/groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil-calls-for-6-more-weeks-of-winter/ Happy shoveling snow! But we Californians have our own problems:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-02 Thread Share Long
noozguru, in FF we once had snow on May 1. So if we have only 6 more weeks of winter, yay! I've gotten it down to a routine, dressing with 2 layers of everything! On Sunday, February 2, 2014 12:33 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:   Punxsutawney Phil calls for 6 more weeks of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-02 Thread Bhairitu
More on the California drought: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/us/severe-drought-has-us-west-fearing-worst.html Bhairitu reporting from New Ethiopia. On 02/02/2014 10:33 AM, Bhairitu wrote: Punxsutawney Phil calls for 6 more weeks of winter:

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2014-02-02 Thread Share Long
so noozguru, now you have 2 new languages to learn: Ethiopian and of course, Mandarin (-: On Sunday, February 2, 2014 12:46 PM, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:   More on the California drought: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/us/severe-drought-has-us-west-fearing-worst.html

Re: [FairfieldLife] Your Dystopian World News Report

2014-02-02 Thread Bhairitu
They are telling people to be careful driving in the rain. There are lots of spinouts causing accidents. I say these people can't drive in sunny weather let alone rainy. I skipped going for my waterfront park walk and the downtown farmers market. Being a former Seattlite that might sound