My meal

This is one of my meals. I had the staples to a Chinese meal, white rice, Chinese vegetables, roast pork ribs, and chicken wings.

The white rice like any white rice you have eaten tastes basically the same. However the way I prepare it is that I put a little more water in the pot. This makes the rice a lot fluffier and moist. I like eating rice that is like this because with the added water the rice temperature is much higher than dry rice and has a certain touch to it. When placed in the mouth it not only warms me up but gives me a little sensation to it. It’s almost like a certain foreign ingredient is added to it that gives it this kick. Maybe it’s the taste of the past meals left in the pot or the metal in the pot that gives it this extra kick.

The vegetables, like I said before is a staple to the Chinese meal. No matter what day it is or what meal it is a meal isn’t complete without a healthy portion of steam vegetables. The way these vegetables are prepared is that we boil it in a pot with water salt and a little of oil. This brings out the natural flavors of the vegetables, lets it cook quicker, than and as well as gives it a little taste. When boiling you could stop it when ever you want to the ideal time for it is about 5 to 10 minutes. However this was topped at 2 minutes. This gives it a nice crunchy taste. We then pour out the water and drain the vegetables. We stopped it prematurely because we don’t want to over cook it in the wok. This was stir fried with a little of oil and oyster sauce. This gives it a bit more flavor. When eating this at first I tasted a little blandest from the vegetables. This is the vegetables natural taste. Then later on it started to taste the ingredients mixed in the oyster sauce gave it a sweet taste that made it delight able.

The fried chicken wings, even though is not a staple, it is a special dish that my father made. It is mixed in a secret batter that he uses to make it taste different from other restaurants, and stands out from the other chefs. Once mixed properly the wings are put in to the fryer where it should fry for 15 minutes or until it floats up. By floating up this means that the batter, skin and a small portion of meat have been fried so much that it is mostly air. Upon tasting it the wings have a crunchy felling to it that made me happy. Whenever I eat something crunchy it makes me happy whether its meat or vegetable. It first has a cinnamon no wait pepper no way garlic. It’s a weird taste that makes it seem mysterious. Even if you could taste the ingredient you can’t pin point which is which and what is what till now I still can’t tell what it is with just tasting.

The next is roast pork this isn’t the like the barbequed kind. This is cooked all at once and is cooked in a different way. It’s first cut open then the skin is roasted this makes it so the heat reaches the inside as well as the out side. Like fried food the pork is cooked until the skin is crisped. The taste of it is bland and really has the taste of meat. It’s probably seasoned but I don’t know with what. It is usually dipped in hoisen sauce where it takes in a sweet taste. It is also accompanied with a light sour taste but it’s like the taste isn’t really there.