Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Garlic Ginger Paste
If you're looking for good food and you're unfamiliar with the area, just look for a tiny hole-in-wall restaurant that's jam packed with locals. Such is the case with a personal favorite of mine, a Chinese take-out extravaganza called Bento Express. When I'm not satiating my craving f0r wonton soup, I'm trying to deconstruct the relatively simple ginger garlic paste that I have fallen in love with. Now for those of you saying, "Whats in a GARLIC and GINGER paste? Don't strain yourself, sweetheart." I'd like to say shut up, smart ass, I'm getting to that. The paste is a bright green color, so I'm considering wether that means they use the stocks of the garlic? It's unclear. I have acquired a sample to bring home and I believe that it's most likely put through a food processor since the peices are all a generally uniform size, which is extremely fine. It could be hand chopped if the maker was some sort of super cyborg chef robot from the future... which is a possiblity that has not been ruled out as of yet.
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It's true. I have seen the garlic and ginger sauce, and it contains arcane and mysterious ingredients. Is it vinegar? Is it soy sauce? Is it something we don't dare think about? If you figure it out I would love to know the secret...
ReplyDeleterice wine?
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I'm trying to think of ingredients here but that's all I'm coming up with.
incedentally, rice wine is very versatile and delicious. we use it in every stir fry. (mark bought some on accident, thinking it was sesame oil HURR WE KNOW CHINESSE)
and by "here" I did not mean the brooklyn stereotype "here," I meant Taiwan. owo
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