Hey! That's the recipe that made me want to try the dish in the first place! So I can at least say that what I ate did have fernbrake, red bell peppers, and carrot, but none of the rest. And it certainly didn't have the sauce -- and even the sauce thing they brought out "on the side" couldn't have been more than a tablespoon or so. I mean, I know television isn't really real, but still, what I saw people eating on television seemed to involve a lot more sauce, enough that you could mix everything up and then eat it with a spoon. Sigh.
I'd try to make it at home -- the problem is that not knowing what it should taste like, I'd have no idea if I just made something really good or totally screwed it up. (Which would be fine, if it were always me, but knowing me, I'd screw it up and think it tastes good, then try to eat it in a restaurant and not like it at all, and not be able to hide my confusion and end up insulting my hosts, and that wouldn't go well, so best to eat the real thing and learn its good parts instead of eating the fake and not knowing the difference.)
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Date: 9 Jun 2011 09:10 pm (UTC)I'd try to make it at home -- the problem is that not knowing what it should taste like, I'd have no idea if I just made something really good or totally screwed it up. (Which would be fine, if it were always me, but knowing me, I'd screw it up and think it tastes good, then try to eat it in a restaurant and not like it at all, and not be able to hide my confusion and end up insulting my hosts, and that wouldn't go well, so best to eat the real thing and learn its good parts instead of eating the fake and not knowing the difference.)