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Forums > Food & Drink > Hot dogs in KM

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You may have bought a catering pack or budget burgers. Frozen catering and budget burgers are generally terrible and to be avoided, even back home. They are usually either full of filler (cardboard) or as tough as Ghandi's sandals.
BTW cooking from frozen is 100% ok.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Consider making your own bread, it's fun.

Crossover from the yogurt making thread.

I have been using the whey, leftover when making Greek yogurt, in my bread.

The whey is heavier than water, and the recipe needed a tweak as the fist attempt did not rise too well. Although it was delicious.

Recipe tweak.
Only added 75% of the salt this time.
Checked consistency of dough, before the proving cycle of the bread machine, and added an extra 2 tbsp water, as it was a bit dry.

This has risen perfectly.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Consider making your own bread, it's fun.

I have seen the bread flour in Metro, and I think I saw some in Paul's Shop.

As for yeast, you need to experiment. After much experimenting, I have found that for the yeast I use the recommended quantity works for me. I think the yeast I get here may be less active than that used in the manufacturers handbook.
The other critical thing is water. Too much water and the bread will rise like a balloon and then collapsee leaving a crater in the middle of the loaf.

I think the wheat dietary fibre flour is only about 0.5% added fibre.

I bought the sack of T65 bread flour from Kirkpatrick (see above). Nearly finished now. I think he said he bought it from TaoBao.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Burger and BBQ recipes.

Basic burger patties recipe.

Go to the market and find the beef seller. Pick your favorite cuts of beef. Usually all the same price/kg. A bit of fat makes a better tasting burger, but some like lean. Up to you.
The seller will grind/mince the beef for you.

Basic Recipe
-Ground beef
-salt and pepper to taste.

Mix it all up. Shape patties in the hands and squash a bit to get them to hold together.

Cook.

Alternativley freeze raw patties individually on a tray, and after frozen you can bag them. They cook from frozen the same as store bought ones.

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You probably couldn't get a mandate to redevelop an area and build an underground shopping mall. Especially if it causes major disruption.

There is an existing mandate to build bomb shelters, and there are added benefits to both the infrastructure and opportunities for business that can be captured too :-)

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My university and tertiary students only had lectures between 8am and noon, Many didn't even turn up for lectures, but would turn up for exams. There is an old joke in China, that university is hard to get in (Gaokao), but easy to get out (very hard to fail). I was told by my Dean, in one provincial level uni., that if SS failed and exam they would resit up to twice and would be given an automatic pass after the second resit.

At a tertiary college in Kunming, I had about 30 regular SS out of 60 on the register, but 110 turned in exam papers. Half of them scored less than 30% (and I had pretty much told them the answers and where to find them (in the PPTs I gave them). Lo and behold, I was told by management that the SS all had to pass, including the guy who got 9%.

The problems of students staying in the dormitories, not working and playing computer games has been in the Chinese news several times in recent years. Unless the authorities have got a grip of this recently, I doubt it will have changed.

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A reasonable choice of lumber that has improved over time. Fancy hardwoods like walnut, and mahogany are in abundance. There are some plywood and rubber-wood boards available. There are also some kiln dried imported softwoods and merbao available. Some of the lumber is very green, so look for the kiln dried if you need stable timbers.

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Echo everything said by others.
Breakfast great and the serve from 8am. Most other places say 9am and they still are not ready.
Sandwiches are cheap 22-32, and really packed full of filling. We got some sandwiches for a day out, the only mistake I made was ordering two, as this was too much. These are seriously good sangars, and they are wrapped in alu foil.

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In fairness to Metro, they are a wholesalers, and not really a supermarket. Hence the need for a card, which can be got around.

They have improved in the year I have been away. They now carry a more consistent range of imported foodstuffs and they also seem to have sorted out the mported milk supply.

They have a wider range of electrical appliances now, there is a coice of more than one toast. There is also a better range of seasonal non foods, like clothes, shoes, garden furniture and camping gear.