Today I learned that my Kang Kong, water spinach, smelled like mowed grass. And that you’re spose to discard the part below where it snaps and cut stems length wise, and cook hot a few minutes to be safe and not chewy. Also learned how to cook the 400g box of mixed mushrooms, 5 kinds, unlabeled other than the weight, and you’re also spose to cook those shrooms to be safe, and some other storage and methods for both.
Also learned more about best methods for the paper thin sliced raw meat you make shabu shabu with. I hadn’t seen the shabu shabu slices in mainland markets, but, here it is prevalent and a reasonable price, frozen. I’ve experimented with lamb, beef and pork. Saved a velveting glaze formula that makes it more consistently tender, to learn later.
Also learned that it is a holiday tomorrow so I get another day off from administration before probably a couple days of moving admin, then most of it is done. Gotta plan ahead here, not just holidays, but every other Monday is austerity day off for government workers I think. IDK, but it feels like won money when I can have a more free day verses do admin.
And learned my air con does turn all the way off sometimes if I run eco 81 degrees. Any less feels cold and refined coconut oil starts to get solid. A plus is up the hill here is closer to where I grew up in coastal southern California. Its cooler here a couple miles up the hill, where the pacific trade winds make a perfectly clean air breeze almost always. Down at the lagoons it is like a sauna usually. One day I was breaking a sweat just talking to the hotel staff in the open air lobby when I first got here and the staffer said that was as bad as it ever gets. Up here it’s nicer than I thought. I had avoided the area after I heard it had a tendency to be more expensive. There’s just more bigger houses than a village with a lot more people. So it might seem a little more expensive, but, I got a price that’s a fraction of the mainland rent, half what I was supposed to budget for. That budget-for price is if you want a place in a week, otherwise hunt for a month maybe get lucky like It seems I did.
Anything you might wonder about this; don’t be shy. Since so many things are different than the mainland, how you comment to the blog may be helpful.
