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These came from Tai Pan restaurant in Doncaster East,  and we got two each of the  Lotus seed paste + salted duck egg, and mixed nuts and seeds and Chinese ham versions.  The square one was the nutty seedy one, and the round one was the lotus seed paste and duck egg one.

Roast Pork:  Served with apple sauce (made by Decay while we were waiting for the oven to do its work reheating the pork),  carrots, peas, and scalloped potatoes (from the freezer stash, leftovers packed from when we last made scalloped potatoes)

There's quite often some rather odd things to be found at your local Asian grocery, even for someone who know about pork floss, and dried cuttlefish, and other random things.  So, when I saw salmon jerky (brought to you by I Love Sushi) at one of the Asian groceries we go to, I figured it would be fun to pick up some to let Lumpy (the jerky connoisseur!) try it out.

Here's half a chicken, roasted. 



And here's some roasted carrots, potatoes, pumpkin, and pork.  Mum tells me that it took a lot longer than anticipated to have the vegies and pork cooked through, because with all the stuff involved in the photo shoot, stuff was on and off the heat a lot. 

That's rather a lot of meat to get through ... I had one of the potatoes already for part of my dinner, and X and I shared a bit of carrot and pumpkin before he went to bed too (:   I think some of this is destined to become lunch, and dinner, and I'm not sure what else, over the next few days! 

Had a trip to the Asian grocery on the weekend to pick up some dark soy sauce for X's Gran, and also picked up a box of this Choco-Banana Pocky, because you know we can't resist out-of-the-ordinary flavours of Pocky around here (:

X and I shared this Pocky flavour over a couple of days (it had two servings in this box) - he quite enjoyed it, and made a bit of a mess with Pocky bits everywhere.  The stick was chocolate biscuit-ish, and the coating was kind of like white chocolate, with brown stripes that were vaguely chocolatey.  I think the banana flavour was only in the smell after the package was opened.  Seeing as X is a bit of a banana fiend, there have been many bananas peeled in this household, and the scent of Choco-Banana Pocky was definitely recognisable as banana.  

Linky from workmate.  Cupcakes put together to look like hamburgers ...