The Edible Couple

Here are some extremely brief, even uncapitalized (gasp!), field notes from , who as you know is fighting guerrilla food warfare in China…

“tonight, we had the most beautifully steamed fish - some sort of sea fish, a grouper or something - beeeautifully done.  the fish was a fat and chunky fish but every inch of it was cooked just right - nothing hard, nothing raw, everything was like…feathery.  haven’t had this sort of perfection in years.  and the oil soy sauce thing was not too salty either.  then there was roasted pigeon, and then a clay pot with crab and vermicelli, and then your favorite type of chicken (yellow skin, cooked in broth) served in this wooden barrel thing with the broth, and this cantonese soup cooked the right way (over a slow fire in a specially-shaped pot) - winter melon and a type of dried cuttlefish — and then there were fireworks on tv…right over our table.”

“we had a long dinner - ate at this elaborate southeast asian resto - and then i spent a long time picking dvds.”

“you shoulda come along last night
it’s like my kinda restaurant
beautiful presentation
menus are hand written and illustrated - each one is different
like a book
lots of small dishes
we had this tea
taiwanese ppl opened it - there’s a distinct design aesthetic in the ambience and the food styling
pickled daikon cut into fan-slices, stacked on a tower - looks like a tree trunk
tofu pudding
not good  - worse than bad panna cotta”