I was feeling like a change yesterday. I definitely wanted rice and stuff but It needed to be something other than Thai. misia had posted about some Hunanese dishes that she had cooked a while ago and one of them had caught my eye so that's where I headed.

I ended up with three dishes; smoked bacon and beancurd stirfried with dried chillis, a Hunanese variant of red cooked pork (reputed to be Mao Zhe Dong's favourite dish) and, by way of contrast, blanched gai lan with an oyster/sesame sauce. I had planned to do sweet and sour lotus root (from Habeas Brulee) but lotus root appears to be out of season. It was a good combination of flavours and textures though I would have licked a bit more of a chilli kick in the bacon/beancurd dish. I suspect the problem was the chillis I used rather than the recipe though.

( Smoky bacon with smoked bean curd )

( Chairman Mao's Red Cooked Pork )

( Gai Lan with Oyster Sauce )

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