Photos of my latest trip to China and Hong Kong - couldn't get to Macau
sadly to photo the famous Fernando roast chicken

Sadly I forgot my camera for 2 other meals and I was asked not to photo the
Dimsum at the China Club in the old Bank of China building - the food there
is very nice and the old Shanghai ambiance with waiters in Starched white
tops. I don't approve of the Mao Kitsch display - why has the world worst
dictator become a style icon - could you imagine doing that with Hitler?
Anyway enough politics - looking at the photo's makes me hungry...

Sadly some of the meals I was not able to dictate all the dishes - so I did
not get to go for some of the more unusual things that I like - but other
western people have problems with...

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enjoy and comments welcome
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William Lack

The beef is very very finely sliced and becomes almost translucent and
crystaline and is crunchy - the sauce such as there is very thick and
syrupy - it is sweet, has an orangey tang with a slight chilli bite. The
dried chillies and ginger are the only other things in it.

The beef is dark like beef jerky, If it is deep fried before hand then
coated with the sauce - I don't know - Fushia Dunlops take on it in her book
on Sichuan cooking was not very successful in my view, there are other image
of another trip sadly the flash this time has made it difficult to see
clearly

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William Lack

When I say that the beef is crisp and crunchy - I really mean it - if you
take a piece and try and bend it, it will snap! hold it up to the light and
you can see a light thorough it!

I assume they must freeze the beef to cut it probably using a ham slicer
type machine .... and it is a beef red/burgundy colour

No leek in the recipe, dry chilli also paper thin - ginger and that it!

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William Lack

William LACK wrote:
> The beef is [...] crunchy
> If it is deep fried before hand then coated with the sauce - I don't know

if it is crunchy as in potato chips then it must have been deep fried.