Chinese food is great, interesting, different - different from "Chinese" food in Australia. Sometimes we just need a familiar taste, we get to craving something like a piece of bread (without that weird sweet taste all the "bread" here has), or a bowl of stewed apple and custard ... all those old favourites from long ago.
We purchased a little oven recently. Just big enough to cook some bread and maybe a roast or some biscuits, a few old favourites.
We search the shelves of the various shops that sell some "western" foods or ingredients. We have bought endless packets of white powders and brought them home to try out to see what is flour (self-raising or plain?), or baking powder, or sugar ... we accidentally bought "m.s.g". instead of sugar once.
So Peter was very excited when he found this supply of custard powder, so we will never run out!
Oh, and that's our new oven too.
We also finally found some baking powder ... but only in the same size as the custard. And some vanilla flavour - but it's a tin of white powder, not at all what I'm used to using.
I did manage to make some scones. And this is my first batch of bread rolls.
And those funny little ball things are a fruit, but I don't know what it's called. Inside they are sort of translucent white, with a biggish black seed - quite nice.
Despite all that we went out to lunch today. We have found that Champion Pizza do my favourite spaghetti bol (well "Italian mince noodles"), and they have an incredible pepper steak which along with a fruit salad plate and a glass of wine is only 22 kuai (less than $4).
Mmm sooo tender!
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