Celebrity chef

In UK, Chefs are treated as celebrities. In a sense that when they are walking on the street, the girls will screaming at them and ask for autograph sign; People would pay big pounds to eat in their luxury restaurants; and some of them even get the chance to sing in the celebrity X factor in front of Simon Cowell even though they are tone deaf.

the cough *tone deaf* cough chefs

This proves that Brits are definately food lovers, to an extent that they even worshipped the chef. One of the high profile chefs in UK is Gordon Ramsey. I am not quite his fan as he is one of the rudest man on earth. If you did watched his show ‘The F word’ then you will know what am i saying. the vulgarity is too exaggerate, in a sense that i’m not sure he is swearing because he was obliged to swear as that is what the show title implies, or he is expressing his emotion.

The F chef

Every week Ramsay gets new non-skilled chefs to create starters, mains and desserts for 50 customers, and they have to prove themselves as worthy chefs with 150 customers paying. Well, the chefs recruited came from all walks of life, Oxford cough *nerdy* cough students, mechanics, plumbers etc. Cant deny the fact that the chef has his own character, as well as his food. Some of the unique food he cooked includes the pigs which he fed with expensive alcohols (what the heck!!), the eel fish dish and etc. Well, Its enjoyable to see his show if you have high resistance towards vulgarity.

Compare to Ramsey, jamie Oliver’s show is a better choice for friday night show. He had transform from the naked chef to the serious canteen chef, took over responsibility for running the kitchen meals in Greenwich school for a year. He was cursed by the students , the collegues, he was depressed at some point but that was the starting point of his school dinner campaign. The response was so great that the UK Government pledged to spend £280m on healthy school dinners. However, his also receives a great deal of critism when he killed a lamb live in the ‘Jamie great escepe’ series.

The winner of “Most Inspiring Political Figure of 2005″ in the Channel 4 Political Awards 2006.

Chefs in UK not only sing, swear like uncivilized, also active in political moves. no wonder they are so much famous than our own malaysian cough *not so* cough favourite-chef Wan.

Celebrity chef???? i’m not so sure.

The tale of the piggy and the noodles

Setapak prawn mee. That is where this bad tale starts and has a nice ending. Went there with my mom on the way to town to have lunch. This area has a reputation for absolutely gastronomical prawn mee. But it becomes a guessing game because there are 3 kopi tiams that sells prawn mee.In the end we choose the first one.

This lady single handily deals out bowls of the noodles and this was what we had :

Prawn mee and curry mee. Both of them turned out to be dissapointments. There was nothing significant about the both of them except that the curry mee had too many little cili padis that for the first time made me unable to finish the gravy right down to the bottom of the bowl.

Walking away from the kopi tiam after facing a sad lunch, we stopped by a teo chew shop that sold chinese confectionary. I haven’t had this biscuit in a long time . It’s made from pork oil and pork fat and stuffed with either lotus or red bean. It also comes in cute animal shapes

This little piggy went to the market and this koala bear was lost

They both tasted nice but the piggy was way better. These little things costs RM 2.50 and RM 1.50 respectively. They definately made a happy ending to lunch.