Today was a very humbling day. Once again, we took forever to get through a conceptually simple product in this week’s class. However, whereas last week’s ham sui gok looked a-ok in the end, today’s BBQ pork buns (cha siu bao) look horrible. They taste alright, but they look horrendous. Other than to close friends [...]
Today is the last quick, easy day in this course. That’s what Chef told us at the start. The remaining weeks, particularly the last two classes, we’re going to be up to our gills with demos and work. Indeed, today’s demo dishes and hands-on dishes were quick and easy. Quick though they may be, they [...]
My classmates and I keep saying that the folks who make dim sum in restaurants are underpaid. For about $3 or even $2-something for something like ham sui gok (“salt water corner-dumpling”), we are getting a helluva deal. This class covered just 2 items, both in fact very similar to one another, but we all [...]
Speed. Man, I love speed. I love it on the ski slopes, I love it in a car. I enjoy watching fast cars, and I enjoy the sound of a nice engine at high revs. I also enjoy speed in the kitchen, but far too often that speed eludes me. Today, I cleaned up and [...]
Sometimes you learn a lot even though you don’t get your hands dirty. That’s what yesterday’s class was like… almost. We got our hands dirty, but our hands were just about the only tools we needed to use. Yeah, I was a little disappointed that I didn’t get to cut anything. On the other hand, [...]
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