Comments on: Culture shock — the ‘dumpling’

By: andrea

andrea — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:02:09 +0000

Tutu, your long link broke my nice box!

Troy, I definitely mean p-ah-sties (the one with minced meat inside), not p-ay-sties! I like cheese and onion ones the best.

By: Tutu

Tutu — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:24:27 +0000

I know what I’d prefer to nibble on…

mmmmm… pastry filled with mush…. mmmmm

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:31:19 +0000

Aren’t pasties those thinks that strippers put over their nipples? :)

Or are you talking about the Cornish Pasty?

By: Tutu

Tutu — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:44:52 +0000

Watch out for them dumplings… chinese ones can poison you…

…and british ones, if cooked like my mum’s and thrown with some accuracy, can knock the crap out of you!

Edited the long URL into a hyperlink.

By: andrea

andrea — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:14:05 +0000

Shauna, I HAVE noticed Chop Chop (I pass it on the bus every day), and have thought on more than one occasion that I must check if they really are the dumpling kings!

Terry, the recipe, excepting the milk, sounds good, though not very dumpling-like!

Jerry, we did spot the soup dumplings and other paus at the Asian supermarket, but we have no steamer and we don’t cook, so until we sort out that pesky cooking thing, no real dumplings for us (unless we go to Chop Chop!).

Boo, I discovered the Tootsie Roll in Singapore, if you can believe that. It was only sold in those ‘US’ party decorations-type shops in Centrepoint at the time.

TuTu, I MISS Chiko Rolls (mm mm mm, junk food)! I’m not keen on Lamingtons because I don’t like coconut.

By: Tutu

Tutu — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:26:35 +0000

…and I forgot… fresh baked Lamingtons for desert!

By: Tutu

Tutu — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:26:01 +0000

Aussie Dim Sims, are just funny shaped fied dumplings and are good! You need to get your chops around a real Aussie Chiko Roll… or fresh baked Sausage Roll (with lashings of tomato sauce)… or Big Ben Meat Pie (with lashings of tomato sauce)… or an Aussie Hamburger complete with beetroot and pineapple…

…I’m hungry now… hey Boss! I’m going on leave to Australia again!

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:29:38 +0000

Boo, Tootsie Rolls are like chocolate taffy.

By: Boo

Boo — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:18:16 +0000

Hee hee hee. I would defend the dimmie - but I really can’t do it!!

And what exactly are Tootsie Rolls? I’ve never known - they sound delish tho…

By: Jerry Lim

Jerry Lim — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:59:24 +0000

What about Australia’s ‘Dim Sim’? That is truly horrid!

Find an asian mart, they sell the frozen 饺子, doing what you prescribed - steam, fried. Best still, when bite into, squirts soup into your mouth. Hmm hmm!