What is the meal the old man Kumada is eating?
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lucyferris — 14 years ago(January 14, 2012 02:05 PM)
What is the meal the old man Kumada is eating?
He was the guy pretending to be a rich professor and stealing people's wallets
who gets arrested and asks for one more taste of his meal.
It looks delicious! I have to know! -
rainofwalrus — 14 years ago(January 31, 2012 11:53 AM)
looks like "mu shu pork."
image:
http://www.asiabistroal.com/wp-content/gallery/mu-shu-pork/asia-bistro -montgomery-al-mu-shu-pork-05.jpg
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lucyferris — 14 years ago(February 01, 2012 03:39 PM)
Hi there,
Thank you for the reply rainofwalrus but by the looks of the picture you linked to it isn't that.
I made a little GIF to show how it looks exactly
http://i40.tinypic.com/2i9toa0.gif
It looks like duckwith some sort of brown sauce (BBQ?) that goes on a little wrap-type-thing.
Thank you for your help
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rainofwalrus — 14 years ago(February 02, 2012 05:55 AM)
well, I cannot say whether it is mu shu duck or mu shu pork. but since your local chinese resturant will only have mu shu pork, I gave you the more popular option.
the sauce is hoisin sauce. but that, alone, doesn't mean it's duck. even from your gif, thanks, it could be roast pork or duckI've have roast pork that looks identical to what's in the film.
and don't worry about discrepancies in the overall dish, mu shu will "look" different in every restaurant.
^_^
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lucyferris — 14 years ago(February 03, 2012 06:48 PM)
Hi there,
thank you for your reply ^.^.
With a little more research I am now sure it is Peking duck.
The meat was defiantly a bird as it was on the table in the film (couldn't include that in the gif, sorry) and according to my research is eaten exactly as shown in the movie.
"first, pick up a slice of duck with the help of a pair of chopsticks and dip it into the soy paste. Next, lay it on the top of a thin cake and add some bars of cucumber and shallot. Finally, wrap the stuff into a bundle with the sheet cake (a thin pancake)."
Now, to recreate!
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realart — 14 years ago(February 08, 2012 01:07 PM)
That may be regional. In every Chinese restaurant in the Boston area and the San Francisco area I've been to, the peking duck comes with small pancakes or small "buns" (buns being a bit thicker than a mushu pancake.)
