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Q: What will be your first meal when you get back home ?
well it is time for me to leave China again (7th time)
and head back to the real world or what I am used to.
Its funny to think that the only time i drink is when im in China
except for the first trip when i wished i was drinking
things would be different if i had a purpose here and then maybe i would enjoy my time in.China instead of
feeling like im doing pennants
the first thing i do on Sunday morning when I get home is cook stake and eggs
some of the meals in China are fantastic and some a little .....ahh....well not as plesant
thanks for helping me pass the time
and I look forward to reading your posts from the safety of my home in Australia
In 20 days from now I'll be having a pie at Raymond Terrace in Newcastle on my way up to Foster. Probably a curry pie. Even the very thought of it has me reaching for the olive oil.
royceH:
Hahahahaha....... Good one Phil! Bloody pussers.
The place I'll go to isn't Freddo's...can't remember the name of it but the pies are real good.
I know another Freddo's joint further up the highway. I think it's north of Kempsey...Fredrickton. Not sure. They've got a statue of Marilyn Monroe out the front.
Home now is China but the first place I hit when I go back occasionally to my small home town just outside Manchester (UK, not the USAnian one!) is one particular fish & chip shop. This place has been making the best fish & chips In the town for nearly 45 years & still has queues out of the door most evenings. Great to have good fish & chips & to catch up with the two guys who run the place.
I now live in Guangzhou.....this fish & chip shop is called Kongs and has been run by the same Cantonese family for 45 years....the oldest brother was born in their ancestral home village......in Panyu, south of Guangzhou!!!! It's a small world! 
Lord_hanson:
Hotwater, you're from t'north too? I'm a Lancastrian, where are you from?
Hotwater:
I can claim to be from Cheshire but I only have to travel 4-6 miles to be in both Lancashire & Derbyshire. Small (ex-) mill town called Hyde.
I am looking to have a few friends for dinner, some fine Chianti, fava beans...
In 20 days from now I'll be having a pie at Raymond Terrace in Newcastle on my way up to Foster. Probably a curry pie. Even the very thought of it has me reaching for the olive oil.
royceH:
Hahahahaha....... Good one Phil! Bloody pussers.
The place I'll go to isn't Freddo's...can't remember the name of it but the pies are real good.
I know another Freddo's joint further up the highway. I think it's north of Kempsey...Fredrickton. Not sure. They've got a statue of Marilyn Monroe out the front.
In 20 days from now I'll be having a pie at Raymond Terrace in Newcastle on my way up to Foster. Probably a curry pie. Even the very thought of it has me reaching for the olive oil.
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I really fancy a UK Chinese meal. A nice tasty chicken bean sprouts with no bones and no cockroaches 
I crave a prime rib.... and some good sauce/gravy... maybe a small roasted potato, but more likely just another piece of "raw" meat., blue.... rare.. warmed up on the edges... delightful garden salad. mmmmm delicious!!!!!!
A soul food picnic. Mac&cheese with baked beans, smoked ribs chased with Lemonaide. Peach cobbler for dessert and some fig bars as a midnight snack! Wasn't planning on going home anytime soon, but now I'm hungry.
the waffle house for a ham,egg, cheese on rye bread, pecan waffle and coffee
A bacon butty for breakfast with HP sauce. Pie and chips for lunch. Gammon steak for my tea. Maybe a scotch egg for a snack. A few pints of scrumpy too. Pork pies, Cumberland sausage and last but not least Lancashire hotpot. Not all in the same day of course.
Hotwater:
Amen to the bacon butty with brown sauce! That's my weekend breakfast in Guangzhou! There's one place here that sells decent back bacon & bread rolls (unfortunately not oven bottom muffins!).
Lord_hanson:
Back bacon in China? I found scotch eggs. It turns out they make them too, they just add loads of sauce. I ask my wife to make them with the sauce, great with a few beers.
Poutine and a slurpee.
If you don't know what they are... you are a hollow person indeed!
royceH:
I've got nothin in me. Look through my ears and you can see the bird across the street.
Maine lobster tail, mashed potatoes, and unlimited salad bar at my favorite restaurant with some white wine.... MMMM
royceH:
Yes, I could go for that...and right effing NOW!
Are you from Maine? I know about a Col Chamberlain from Maine.
Onion soup,prime rib and a caesar salad with a bottle of Mouton Cadet Cabernet Sauvignon
brown bread and Dutch cheese. the most normal things are what you end up missing most. great to start washing away the Chinese food oilslick from my system. can you believe i suffer from bloody GOUT after 3+ years of oily Chinese food?! i'm only 32, and i'm not even that fond of meat, but every morning and evening my heels become painful to walk on. i already asked my mom to make sure she has bread and cheese when i arrive.
royceH:
You sure it's gout? Painful heels are not a typical symptom of gout. But that's not to say it isn't. Have a blood test.
I find that the best thing to do is to masturbate. Call it an old town cure-all.
ambivalentmace:
make sure its not the beer instead of food, i had heel spurs 8 months after i got here, some sort of acid in the beer causes calcium to leak out of your bones, i quit the chinese beer and the heal spurs were gone in 3 months.
coineineagh:
you're right. i later found out heelspur was the righy diagnosis. i didn't know it was from the beer. And i thought the beer was one of the few decent things about China.. im 3 months out of China, and the symptoms are gone.
A dozen oysters at Jack's Oyster House. I'll follow them up with either the Maine lobster or the New York strip steak. Maybe both for some surf and turf. I'll wash it all down with a cold Saranac pale ale, or maybe two;)
Ummm - hard to say!
My preference is probably a good hamburger - Aussie style (but I don't mean an "Australian" burger). Somehow, the burgers just aren't the same... I think it's the size... I'm used to wider burgers back home, not taller. Oh, and steak burgers... all (naturally) with beetroot.
Good fish & chips is good!!! Sea Perch! Coral Trout!!! (crumbed, not battered) with real chips... not those thin fries things
Or, as the guys said, a good pie! (although, my local good supermarket now has Kiwi pies in ... and I've been able to get my hands on some other pies from some small places - and there's some guy in YangZhou (near Nanjing) that makes Aussie pies and will deliver.
But I tend to eat fairly normally anyway... maybe today it'll be steak and eggs for breakfast 
MissA:
My dinner tonight will be tiger prawns, Tassie salmon, a mixed green salad and I've bought potatoes, which I'm debating with myself what to do with. I'm never moving anywhere I can't get good seafood again.
royceH:
@Shining; yeah, what's that with the hambuger getting taller and taller? Reckon they originated in downtown Wankerville.
Beetroot on a hamburger? Are you kidding me? Of course!! If it hasn't got beetroot on it it fails the REAL test.
@Miss A; Guess we won't be running into each other any time soon then...
BUT...... I'm going to be at my Mum and Dad's in a few weeks and they live in Forster. They've already teased me with what's in store when I get there.... oysters and prawns and stuff. From the co-op. The fish we'll have to catch ourselves...that's Dad's style.
My flight gets in at 6-something in the morning. I'll be headed straight from the airport to Cracker Barrel. Momma's French Toast Breakfast (French toast, scrambled eggs, bacon, coffee) 
cooter:
Still suffering the Chinese breakfast for now....6 more days.....
iHop or some breakfast place like that sounds good. But I think I'd look forward to finding cheap and healthy foods in the supermarkets... like discounted meats and greek yogurt for starters.
Bacon, eggs, and toast. scrambled. No, the eggs. Scramble the eggs. The eggs, moron. No one scrambles toast!
royceH:
Could happen. Ever seen a Chinese joint do western food properly?
The Buffet House. Huge selection of great tasting food. And, the next day, my favorite Mexican restaurant. I miss eating a great grilled thick BBQ steak. Grinders, sliders, beef dogs, Chicago style pizza, Butter and salted popcorn at the movie theater, root beer, real chocolate ice cream, time at the after party hangout in Denny's with some friends, Cheesecake Factory, donuts with cold milk, turkey with all the fixings, honey glazed ham with all the fixings, nachos and cheese, soft pretzels, American Chinese food, sour dough bread, and so much more. Damn, I miss variety.
El Salvadoran food! I want some papusa's! And a bunch of other central and south American dishes!
First night I'll be zonked but maybe stumble out to eat at Odessa Restaurant in the Village . Next day lunch in Midtown , Indian food for dinner.
I can tell you what I had:
Day 1: mum's lasgna. Sticky date pudding.
Day 2: dad's massive barbie breakfast: homemade bread, eggs, beans, mushrooms, sausage, hash brown, tomato. Couldn't eat lunch: dad's mixed grill barbecue and mum's potato salad for dinner.
Day 3: Mixed berry porridge, chicken avocado focaccia toasties for lunch, mum's roast lamb dinner with all trimmings.
Vegemite and cheese on good oat crackers, and lots of good sav blanc were consumed in the meantime.
Then I went on a diet :(
Whatever my mom will cook for me. If she still loves me, it will be beetroot soup with mushroom pockets
