In the 80s and 90s, my parents used to go to Richmond and buy bags of fresh prawns to boil up and eat with Maggi sauce mixed with sesame oil. When I was older, I’d realize that what we were in fact eating spot prawns! So the big hot local sustainable BC seafood product of the last decade or so had always been part of our family. 😀
Spot prawn season just started yesterday, so I bought some fresh live ones for myself. I went to The Fish Counter on Main St. (beside Portland Craft) and they had a tank of them. Besides great fish & chips, they also sell sustainable Oceanwise seafood. I’ve bought sidestripe prawns from here before, and they tasted pretty good sashimi-style. How would ultra-fresh BC spot prawns compare? Well…our local sidestripes are good but these spot prawns (only available a couple weeks out of the year) are amazingtastic! If you love that crunchy texture and clean, sweet taste of raw prawns, then you should get some spot prawns fast!
Continue reading Local BC Spot Prawn Sashimi with Deep Fried Heads. Cuz it’s awesome. →
We received a wonderful cookbook (Quintessential: Authentic Vietnamese Cuisine) from Helga earlier this year, but we hadn’t gotten around to actually cooking from it until now. Wicca used the Pork Ribs Braised in Fish Sauce (Sườn Ram) recipe as a base, then tweaked it to suit her palate. We didn’t really intend to post this as a full recipe at the time, so I don’t have photos of the ingredients, prep, etc, but I hope this will inspire you anyways! Just check out the Instagram posts that I did that night. It was delicious!
Wicca’s tweaked recipe is below. Enjoy!
Continue reading Tweaking a Recipe: Pork Ribs Braised in Fish Sauce (Sườn Ram) →
Instagram has been great for me once again. Seems like the more you put in, the more you get out. Last week, I had posted a photo of some sad-looking nachos from Browns Social House where I voiced my displeasure:
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Kin Kao on Commercial Drive was the first Thai restaurant in Vancouver to serve Sour Cured Pork Ribs that are fermented with cooked rice for a few days then deep fried. I love the sour tang (similar to flavours in some kinds of charcuterie), and it’s excellent with beer! (You can read my review of Kin Kao here.)
Recently, Longtail Kitchen started serving their own version that had a more pronounced sour tang:
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Continue reading Flirting with Danger: Thai Sour Cured Pork Ribs with Brett Beer →
I know “Chunk Beef” isn’t perfectly grammatical but I like the way it sounds! You know, as opposed to “ground beef”, “chunk beef”! I’d love for people to walk into a butcher and ask for “chunk beef”… Continue reading Powered by Natural Gas: Chunk Beef Chili →
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