Oh Andrew, how deprived you are! But don't you like
Chinese food? How does it compare with the Western
versions?
Candice
--- andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Now will you guys STOP! I'm in a town in the
> arse-end of nowhere where I
> can't buy butter or cheese or 'normal' milk or
> cinnamon or ... or ... or ...
> When someone in this foreign teachers community goes
> to the Big Smoke
> (Beijing or Shanghai) they go with a shopping list
> from the rest of us. I
> have a cupboard full of various coffees coz you can
> only buy Nescafe instant
> here - made in China. Yuck.
>
> ... so dreams of apple pie float in my head (to
> paraphrase something ... an
> echo a la another thread) ... Next time I'm in your
> town, Joanna, I demand
> scones. Bewdiful.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 26/03/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I forgot about the cheddar. Also nice.
> >
> > Flan is the default desert in Latin America,
> including my
> > neighborhood. They seem not to make pies in our
> sense. They dio make
> > empanadas, in American turnovers, in British
> pasties.
> >
> > The best savory pies I've ever had were in any
> bakery in Australia.
> > They've raised it to an art form. 15 or 20 kinds
> is not unusual. One
> > of the best and least common that I had was claret
> and camel pie.
> >
> >
>
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