So... Whats for lunch?

[Sportsdude]

yup ultimate teen hang out with a bunch a friends, now its the taco bell for some reason.  

[Lise]

Morning all. Lovely day today. It isn't going to last. Rain is coming....... possibly over the weekends. Ho hum.

  I made a wonderful nyonya cake yesterday, kuih talam. Wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. Nyonya is part of my heritage, somewhere down the line, it's possible I come from the marriage of two cultures, Malaysian and Chinese.

  Anyways, so proud that I could make this cake. I thought it would be impossible but I found the ingredients and thought I'd try them out.

  Kinda looks like this one here: [A href="vny!://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Market/7773/kuihtalam.html"]vny!://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Market/7773/kuihtalam.html[/A]

[Sportsdude]

oooh yummy lise.  

[P.C.]

I don't know which impresses me more.  That you made this exotic dessert, or that you actually found Screwpine Juice. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c008.gif" border=0]

[Sportsdude]

I didn't know there was such a thing as screwpine juice? hmm interesting.  

[purelife]

Morning everyone.  

  Yes, I'm curious as to where you found pandan leaves?  At T&T?  I think that I've had those.  Those are tasty.  

  May I come over to have some?  

[Lise]

Hehe. No, no, seriously I found screwpine or pandan. There's a place in Vancouver that sells it. I had to literally hunt all over the net to find this place. Cheongs or something like that. So you can imagine how estactic I was when I finally found them. I shouted 'YES!!!!' in the grocery store as I waved the leaves in the air. My husband just shook his head.

  It's a pretty exotic taste but I grew up with them so I was pretty darn excited to taste this flavor again.  

[Lise]

Nope, couldn't find it at T&T but I found these puppies at Cheong Lee Market, along with fresh turmeric roots. Still on the hunt for galangal and candlenuts.... these herbs are a tad harder to find.

  [SPAN id=business_name][FONT size=+1]Chong Lee Market[/FONT]
[/SPAN][FONT size=-1]3308 22nd Avenue East[/FONT]
[FONT size=-1]Vancouver, BC V5M 2Z3[/FONT]
[FONT size=-1] [NOBR](604) 432-6880[/NOBR]

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[purelife]

Cheong's?  Is that near Nanaimo/Boundary area?  I've been there if that's the same market you're talking about.  There's a Little Caesar's there as well and it's near a corner, right?  

[Sportsdude]

 haha thats funny lise.  You sound like the best cook ever. You and P.C. should have a cook off.
   

[purelife]

Ok, that's the Cheong Lee that I've been to!  I didn't know that they sold exotic exotic ingredients.  That's nice to know.

[Lise]

Yep, that's the one purelife. They got them in the freezer section. I found plenty of herbs and spices in packets that I was looking for. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it was so crowded and parking was a b*tch.

  The people there are super friendly though. I asked them about candlenuts and they spent like 15 mins trying to find it for me even though they didn't know what it looked like.

  I don't think I can do a cook-off against PC.... not unless I want to be whipped to shame. She's a much better cook than I am.  

[Sportsdude]

I dunno you two sure know your stuff when it comes to cooking.  I'm hopeless when comes to cooking.  All I can do is quesadillas and thats it.  

[P.C.]

I don't think I can do a cook-off against PC.... not unless I want to be whipped to shame. She's a must better cook than I am

  I don't think that's accurate Lise.  We cook VERY differently than each other, but I think we're BOTH adventurous cooks.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c033.gif" border=0]

[Lise]

Ah thanks but I still think you're a better cook than me.......