Thursday, April 15, 2010

Breakfast of Champions

My favorite Chinese breakfast by far, and something that I think could
sell well in the United States, is a dish called "chaun fin".
According to Lee, the name literally means cow intestines. And the
reason it is called that, is because it looks like cow intestines
(specifically, the folds in the food are reminiscent of the rugae
found in mammalian digestive tracts).

Anyway, chaun fin is just rice noodles. The cook has a small shop on
our street with this bizarre oven that holds four trays in it. The
cook takes a tray and pours the liquid rice mixture on it. Then he
can add meat (rho) or egg (daun). He puts the tray in the oven and a
minute or two later pulls it out and the rice liquid has hardened a
little bit into a spread out layer. He then takes a scraper and
scrapes the food off of the tray and into a bowl for you.

I have a video of the guy doing this, its pretty impressive how fast
he is when he has a lot of customers. Anyway, here are a couple of
pictures of it.

Nick

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