Carrying on the theme of attempting more Chinese recipes, as I am still waiting on the red rice wine to ferment further, I thought I would try and make one of my favourite dim sum dishes called Lo Mai Gai, or steamed glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaf with meat filling to give its fuller English translation.
The finished product...
Read on to see how I made them.
Don't know who he is but I like his blog.
I used to remember when I was a kid that my mam would have a huge glass jar of pink rice in liquid that I knew was alcoholic (if just slightly) but was great when warmed up, just like some adult liquid rice pudding.
After all these years I thought I would give it a go. Not sure what spurred that thought but I duly Googled some recipes and it all looked pretty straight forward. Cook some glutinous rice up, crush some rice wine cakes and red rice yeast, mix the rice with the powder mix, throw into a jar, stir every now and again, and hey presto.
This is what it looks like so far.
It might look like I blended some hamsters but it seems to be coming along pretty well.
However, my parents are down in 6 weeks time and that is when it should mature so they can give it a once over. I am sure I will get zero marks and disapproving comments about what an idiot I am and how I don't know how to make it and how I should have left it till mam came down. Usual usual...
You can see more examples of Ken Fong's fashion design work here on his own web site: kfdesigns.weebly.com
We are all proud of my little brother, Ken Fong, who has passed his fashion degree at UCA Epsom.
He was also picked as part of the university's show as part of Graduate Fashion Week. Me and Angela went up to Earls Court to watch it all on his big day. Well done. I never knew you could work so hard and get up early :-)
This is the footage of his part of the show. Fantastic to see his name up in big letters.
Here are some reviews and blogs that feature Ken's collection at Graduate Fashion Week.
Gordon and Angela Fong - living in Southbourne, working hard, enjoying life, travelling the world, eating great food and drinking some nice tipple along the way.
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