Food and Drink | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity
The Hottest Tables in Saigon
Travel+Leisure portraits Anan’s Peter Cuong Franklin and Å By Tung’s Hoang Tung and mentions a couple of other fine dining restaurants.
Having been to Anan twice I’ll add some of the other places to my list.
How to Mix Every Cocktail
New York bartender Jeff Solomon shows how to mix every cocktail.
And by every cocktail we mean not every cocktail, because that would be insane. Today we’re gonna focus on classic cocktails. These are the drinks from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that are still popular today.
The Story of Nearest Green
Emmy-Award winning actor Jeffrey Wright narrates the story of Nearest Green.
This beautifully shot short film tells the extraordinary legacy of the first known African-American master distiller. It’s a story of honor, respect, and an unlikely friendship, that would forever change the whiskey industry. Perhaps the greatest American story you never heard.
I Loved Shanghai
Seems that I love Shanghai moved to a new location. There was still a small light in the old place, the interior and a blackboard: “Bar for Leasing”.
Tomato and Egg
I stumbled upon this picture of a common dish around here (although I’ve never seen it with onions):
While I still don’t like the version they serve in the Tongji Cafeteria, I’ve eaten quite good ones in the meantime.
Su-Lin, the cook and photographer, posted the recipe in her blog. I haven’t tried it yet but you can do it. And if you want to enjoy the real Chinese experience just get tomatoes that are not yet ripe or contain black spots or holes and don’t cut them away. :-P
Animal Oil
A friend said all the noodle people use animal oil because it’s cheaper. Aaaaaaarg. Bu hao. Hen bu hao. I will never be able to eat noodles again. We had just found a noodle woman a few weeks ago and last week I thought she used animal oil. Now I know…
Chinese Candy
Made of vegetables
Wood, Water and Stones
Fake tree
Waiting for the worst food so far.
I’ve been gnawing on one of the wooden things in front without any effect before I finally gave up. The other dishes weren’t much better.
Funny thing to pump water. We thought we’d help them by using it but it actually cost one Yuan.
Rainy Hongkou
In front of the Rainbow City Lifestyle Mall.
Feihong Road and an entrances to the metro station Linping Road.
Wood and Food
We just said we want something without meat and something with. I always said yes when the man, seemed to be the owner, asked about tofu, corn, etc. as I eat all of them. I never intended to order all the things… A great deal too much food for two persons and not as cheap as it could have been. But very delicious.
The 3 Kingdom Restaurant
The upper thing was also yellow, I have no idea why it’s green on the pictures.
Every table has its own fume hood and barbecue grill.
So many people are running around in the restaurants but no one takes care of your clothes. You always have to put them over your chair. I did it and then someone came and put this thing over my coat to “protect” it. Weird.
Free appetizers.
Gou rou, dog meat. No one wanted to order it and I only eat dogs when I can kill them myself. :-P
A waitress cooked the vegetables at another table, away from the meat.
The barbecue was changed very often. The waitresses came with a new one, put the meat on it and took the used one away.
Korean cutting the meat.
You eat the things wrapped in a lettuce leaf.
No idea why our Koren friend poured her tea in her rice.
Dessert
Air conditioning with jet engine
Cleaning
Just a Little Bit
My vegetarian food didn’t even comply with the Chinese definition as I could spot the meat easily. The waitress said it’s just “a little bit” but they finally cooked the dish again.
Mifan. I could eat tons. And I begin to understand why Chinese like it that much.
Waitresses standing around. As all Chinese restaurants this one also had personnel en masse.
Just Around the Corner
Old and new. The World Financial Center.
I think my house is the second one on the right. (Update: Ok, it’s not.)
Mr. Snoozleberg
Someone had translated the menu of a restaurant to German. The last line reads: “Guten Appetit wünschen zwei der drei!” Only two of the three want us to enjoy our meal.
“Good Night Mr. Snoozleberg” on a Korean friend’s atree.
Even the waitress and a boy were engrossed.
It took some time to figure out how to get to the next level.