[Sca-cooks] Food items?

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

the courthouse in Philadelphia is also right on the edge of our Chinatown..
good food there!
Kirsten Houseknecht
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Philadelphia, PA     USA
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AEllin Olafs dotter" <aellin at earthlink.net>
To: "SCA Cooks" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 11:23 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Food items?


> I've been on jury duty this week, so of course I've been hanging out in
> Chinatown. (You didn't know that follows as the night does the day?
> You've never been to a courthouse in the County of New York... it's
> right on the edge of Chinatown. And we had long lunches, this week -
> things were slow.)
>
> Now, New York's Chinatown is not by any means exclusively Chinese, these
> days. I lunched in Vietnamese restaurants, to try a cuisine with which I
> am totally unfamiliar. Besides, they had  Rice Dishes - meat and
> vegetables over rice with tea and sometimes a small bowl of noodle soup.
> Tax and tip included hovering close to $5.00. Can't beat that. It's
> good, too. I didn't add the myriad hot sauces, because I liked the taste
> of the sauces used for the cooking.
>
> Anyhow, I nudled around the shops a bit, looking for Interesting
> Inexpensive Things that I could easily carry. Found good prices for
> things I am already familiar with, and will return to a few...  But
also...
>
> I am now the proud possessor of sliced dried galangale. I remember a
> discussion of the impossibility of grinding dry hunks of the stuff, and
> presume that's why it is sliced very thin. Now I need to figure out what
> I am going to do with this.
>
> I also  have a cylinder of sugar. It's from Indonesia. The label says
> Gula Jawa, which might be the product and might be the brand, and
> there's a sticker on it that adds Sudah Disaring BERSIH.   What does
> this tell me? (Anahita??)  It says the ingredients are Arenga sugar and
> Cane sugar (which doesn't tell me much more than the Indonesian...
> what's Arenga? OK, Cane, I know.) Comments? Information?
>
> Last week, in just over  one day, we went from a high of 60 to a high of
> 90. Add this to the wettest June on record... we're not baked, we're
> steamed...
>
> AEllin
>
>
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