Thursday, June 21, 2007

Curry review

In the past year (this school year in France, I mean, since it's ending in 2 days ;) ) I've tried 3 kinds of canned curry that I bought here, in an Asian mini market. (yes, they have Asian mini markets here!) Since I've been talking about putting up more pictures (and also because I have more free time now :P) I shall grace you with a photo of...the can! lol

Anyway, this is the one I just tried, as you can see, it's green curry. The other two that I tried were red curry (hehe, doesn't sound very interesting, huh?) and mussaman curry (don't ask me why it's called that...) The thing is, the red and green curries taste almost the same to me...only the colour is different! And another difference is, in the red curry there are pumpkin pieces, and in the green one there are bamboo shoots. Wondering what that is? I wondered too (but I think I've eaten bamboo shoots before, just...cut up differently?) Here's a photo with the bamboo shoots...

and as you can see, there are some red chillies as well. And some green veggie that I don't really know. And...drumroll, please... kaffir lime leaves (that's daun limau purut, isn't it?) I had to add the meat myself, but everything else was in the can...

The mussaman curry was more...Malaysian. It had potatoes in it, and it was almost like the chicken curry with potatoes that we usually find. I think that in future I shall buy that again...but maybe not the green or red curry. They're not bad, but just not as good.

But now I'm waiting for rendang :P (sigh...can't find that here...)

Just a little digression: Whenever I buy kiwis, they seem to take so long to be ripe! My mother told me once that to make kiwis ripen faster, we have to keep them with apples.(don't ask me why!) This time (for the first time, I think) I bought these 2 fruits at the same time, but I think of this now, when I just ate the last apple yesterday...talk about irony!

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