We had heavy and persistent rainfall over two weeks.
Even if it stopped, it has been very humid and uncomfortable.
I have been reluctant to go out, not only because of the virus spreading but because of this weather.
That is why I am writing about Chinese dishes I have experienced overseas with photos of Chinese dishes I made at home.
You can find Chinese restaurants anywhere in the world.
Many of the cooks are Chinese or Asian origin and we can enjoy authentic Chinese dishes wherever we go.
Nevertheless, the savor of the dishes differ depending upon the regions, that is, the likes and dislikes of the local people.
As I wrote previously I went to a Chinese restaurant in Oxford, where a chocolate cake, pudding, and the like was served as a dessert. It might be common in Western countries, however, in Japan these desserts are not favored after oily Chinese dishes.
Instead, cold desserts are popular, such as an-nin-do-fu (a milk jelly with almond flavor), mango-pudding (jelly), or oriental fruits like lychee.
An unforgettable dish was a Beijing duck ramen in London.
Beijing duck is very fatty and usually wrapped with rice paper.
The ramen, Chinese noodles in soup, is typically served with sliced roast pork and Chinese bamboo shoots in Japan.
A Beijing duck ramen was an eye-opener for me and a friend of mine used to go to that Chinese restaurant to eat it every summer.
In London I have had a ramen with grilled meat.
It was chilly day and I enjoyed it. However, I have never seen one in Japan.
Chinese restaurants are everywhere in the world and helpful for Asian tourists when they wonder what to eat or they cannot eat local foods.
I went to Sligo, Ireland about twenty years ago as a private group tour.
Sligo was a small town having a few restaurants. The tour members were to have dinner individually, and it resulted in we converged in a Chinese restaurant outskirts of the town.
We made orders individually. However, it turned out that what we had chosen were either curry or chukadon, a bowl of rice topped with chop suey. And both of them looked almost the same, only differed in a seasoning— curry powder.
Anyway, the dishes were not bad. We all enjoyed the dinner.
I have had authentic Chinese dishes in Hong Kong when it belonged to Britain.
A friend of mine and I went to a Chinese restaurant soon after we arrived in Hong Kong, and we ate several dishes including mabo-dofu, fried tofu with ground meat in a spicy sauce seasoned with chili pepper.
It was very very tasty and we enjoyed it.
However, the mabo-dofu had contained so much pepper and garlic that we had gastrointestinal disorder. For the rest of our tour, we could only eat digestible foods such as noodles and fruits.
On the way home, we agreed“we should have had the Chinese dishes as the last dinner”.
Anyway, trying Chinese dishes around the world is very interesting.
Now, the rainy season is about to end.
The summer is beginning, and the Olympic games are about to start.
What’s happening next?
