Meme of fours

[vilakins]

From shimere277 and kalinda001:

4 films you can always watch: (counting series as one)
- The Truman Show
- The Stunt Man
- The General
- Star Wars (original three)

4 towns you have lived in:
- Wellington, NZ
- Dovrat, Israel (near Afula)
- London, England
- Frankfurt, Germany

4 shows you like to watch (and none of them are on the air right now!):
- Babylon 5
- Blake's 7
- Farscape
- SG1

4 websites you visit daily:
- LiveJournal
- GMail
- Google
- UserFriendly

4 favourite foods:
- gado-gado
- vegetarian samosas
- chocolate (esp if containing ginger)
- crème brûlée

4 places you'd like to be now:
- Vanuatu (sun, sea, beach...)
- Italy (food, culture, beauty)
- Germany (language, culture, joy)
- England (B7 fans, cons, easy access to Europe)

Comments

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

What's gado gado?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

This: vege salad with peanut sauce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gado_gado); yum!

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

oooh that sounds good. hmmm...I wonder if there's an Indonesian restaurant here.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Sure to be!

BTW I see you advised steverogerson on a good Taipei bar to go to. :-)

[sorsha-khan.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm *decides to try on unsuspecting cousin/housemate* Looks great - you may start a new trend ;-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's an old one in Indonesia! I love it because it's tasty, it's veges, it's not all lettucy but is really satisfying as a meal in itself, and the sauce is delicious. You can add fried tofu cubes or tempeh, or sliced hard-boiled eggs for extra protein; I prefer the tofu.

BTW in Indonesia, if a meal is called 'special' as in 'special nasi goreng', it has a fried egg on top. :-D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've added links for that and a couple of other foods now.

And it's time for dinner--whitebait fritters! Bet you haven't heard of that one! Take a look here, in the NZ section (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitebait). They do look like worms before they're cooked (the ones in the pic are not our whitebait; they're huge; ours are teeny), but they're white and delicious and crispy when they are.

I draw the line at huhu grubs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huhu_beetle) though (the larval stage of the beetles). Maori kids I was at school with ate them though. :-P

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

Love crème brûlée. A place here (Dan Ryan's) does a really good one.

Whitebait fritters...does sound like worms but looks ok.

Huhu grubs...yeah I would give a pass on that too.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Crème brûlée? Beats all other desserts. I cannot go past a crème brûlée on the menu.

When whitebait are cooked, they're like little white strip of fish, which is really what they are. Hee; my mother's cousin always cut their head off first: such a picky job, esp when the average fritter has about 30-50 of them in it.