2010年11月10日

Bonanza Coffee Heroes-best cafe in Berlin





In summer, one of the best things in Berlin is to go to Mauer Park: flea market, outdoor KTV, different performances from all over the world in one park...afterwards, a cup of coffee at Bonzana Coffee Heroes, which is said the best coffee shop in Berlin. Why? as far as I see, it's fresh: they roast the coffee beans on site with experts (looks like). Normally, coffee beans should be packed/sealed in max. 3 hours after roasting to keep the crema. Other critical elements are also included: freshly ground and brewed, good coffee machine from Italy, good water...
In winter, it is still open till 7pm, except Wednesday till 3pm. "Don't die before trying".

2010年10月30日

Bachforelle in Chongqing style






In Vienna, you can get fresh and good quality fish from some Merkur&Billa (supermarkets), especially fish from the beautiful lakes in Austria. However, how people cook fish here is very limited, frying in butter for most fish, boiled or smoked salmon. People normally don't buy those fish with many bones as they don't know how to eat that, or they eat in good restaurant where the waiter/waitress serves the boneless fish.
In Chongqing, we have two rivers, people like eating fish, carp, grass carp, crucian and some special species from Yangtze River. Many different ways of cooking fish were/are invented, such as the water boiled fish are popular around whole China.
Due to lacking spice & ingredient from Chongqing, I use the available stuff here to cook fish: soya source, black bean source, fresh chilly(small&spicy one), garlic, onion, green onion, ginger, and one or two kinds of vegetables you like, can be zucchini, tomato, paprika or celery. So it's a kind of Chongqing style to cook fish, with much less chilly & Sichuan pepper. The fish I brought is Bachforelle (brown trout?) from the Alps lake. Then the taste :)... please try it yourself.