Back in the U.K, I was never really a milk person. Sure, I’d have it on cereal and my tea but I wouldn’t drink it straight, heat some before bedtime or even have milkshakes that often.
In England, milk is incredibly easy to get hold of, fairly cheap and of high quality. The only thing you’d ever have to think about when buying milk in the U.K. is whether to buy skimmed, semi-skimmed or whole.
As usual, it was something I took for granted and didn’t appreciate until I came to China.
Chocapic + Milk = Breakfast Heaven
One day in what must’ve been my first few weeks in China, I was longing for some cereal for breakfast instead of dumplings (Chinese people don’t generally eat cereal for breakfast). So I went to the local supermarket to buy some along with some milk.
To my delight, I found that Chocapic - a superior cereal only available on import in England - is freely available on supermarket shelves in Beijing and I picked up a few boxes and made my way over to the dairy section for some milk.
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This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now and will provide much needed content for this ‘blog’.
Lists of stuff that’s been sloshing around in my head but not been able to muse about. Here’s the first one.
Ovens. One of the key features of an English kitchen any kitchen is mystifyingly absent from kitchens here in China.
The ‘oh-ven’, as they say in the Salisbury area, is one of those things that we’ve grown up using on such a regular basis, that we’ve probably taken them for granted.
But, as the “top chefs” on ‘Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook’ would probably testify they are THE most important culinary contraptions for any self-respecting cook.
Actually the reason isn’t so mystifying.
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Early October - Swine Flu’ed?
After getting home from an evening jog around Sai Kung one night, I stepped from the humid and balmy night into my Gran’s freezing air-conditioned living room (Hong Kongers like to recreate arctic conditions indoors).
The sudden change in temperature caught my immune system unawares and one night later, I was lying in bed with a vicious fever.
Worried that it was something like H1N1, I saw a doctor who said that it was a possibility but nonetheless gave me tons of conventional drugs to fight the fever, blocked nose, phlegm and tight chest I was having.
3 groggy days later, I got on the plane and managed to make it past Mainland quarantine checkpoints without too much hassle.
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