We were tired from all the climbing during the hike, so our tour leader decided to call for a break at a forest shelter. He set down his picnic basket and whipped out many things from the rattan chest: one flask of coffee, one flask of tea, cups, saucers, teaspoons etc. The most amazing thing that he laid out was a huge serving of carrot cake. Everyone in the group took a slice of cake each and I could swear there and then that it was the most amazing piece of cake I have ever had.
Sadly, I have never had a chance to try out this dish in Germany during my previous trips to this land of sausages. The closest to this dish that I have ever had was the Bratkartoffeln (stir-fried potato slices) which was always available at the Wochenmarkt in Frankfurt. I can still recall the irresistible whiff of fried potato fragrance whenever we approached the market stalls. This lingering aroma must have frozen in time in my mind, thanks to the prolonged winter back then.
This was my first time making curry chicken from scratch – chopping up individual spices and then blending all of them into a paste. This set of ingredients is almost identical to those of the ‘Malay Spicy Ayam Masak Merah‘: candlenuts, galangal, lemongrass, chillies, shallots etc. It was therefore amazing to see how a similar set of ingredients could churn out a different dish altogether.
This is a simple dish of rice fried in Korean style. It is just one of numerous other Korean dishes which takes advantage of the range of seasonings and flavours of the traditional fermented vegetables – kimchi – to enhance the flavours. The sour, at times spicy, taste of the preserved vegetables works wonders at making this an easy meal to chew on and digest. The bright red colour of the rice also helps to open up one’s appetite at the meal.
이드라마는 아주 좋아해요!
This romance-comedy has its story revolving around a sassy lawyer who helped to turn the life of a college boy around when she saved him from a murderer. That, in turn, led to her family and her own life being continuously threatened by the murderer after he was released from the prison. On the other hand, the college boy, who had the special ability to ‘hear’ someone else’s thoughts by looking into one’s eyes, had fastidiously decided to stay by the lawyer’s side to protect her and to repay her kindness. The combination of the lawyer’s wit and the boy’s special ability eventually helped to tide them through all the dangerous episodes in their life.
