Project Miner

Our friend Veronica loves good food and cooking, and in November we got to see where part of that love must have originated.  Veronica had a birthday (don’t worry, V, I won’t out your age here) and her parents came down from NY to help celebrate.  Katy and I were lucky enough to get an invite to the gathering, where her parents cooked some traditional Chinese birthday dishes.  I won’t make myself look stupid by trying to name them, but everything that I ate was fantastic (which was everything other than the seafood, because I’m picky like a four year old and hate seafood).  The deliciousness (is that a word?) of the food was aided along by a spicy sauce-like addition Veronica’s Dad brought along with him.  It can only be described as looking like black oily flecks of sludge, and only described as tasting like spicy heaven.  Seriously, it was amazing.  It was seriously difficult to stop myself from just eating a spoon full of it, which I’m sure I would still be feeling.  The taste is hard to describe, but it’s, well, spicy (in a garlicky kind of way, but also a red chili pepper kind of way) and kind of smokey and oily and did I mention delightful?

Well, Veronica’s Dad’s Daughter is pretty awesome also…  A few weeks ago (errr, months ago?  I still have no concept of time) Veronica and Josh came over to drop off some extra fried rice, and as a side, she says "oh, and I brought you some of my Dad’s spicy sauce".  NAAARF.  (Side note: friends who make great food and bring you the extras, friggin’ ROCK)  That night, they ended up staying to play some Rock Band and we all ate most of the fried rice, but thankfully there was still plenty of sauce to keep around. 

Tonight, we ordered take out from our favorite Chinese place nearby – Hong Kong Harbor.  We ordered pork fried rice (not as good as Veronica’s, but good) and chicken lomain (lo-main?  lo main?  something).  Both are good, but become fantastic with Veronica’s Dad’s sauce of the Gods on top.

Here are some pics of the sauce, maybe you can "see" how it tastes?  I don’t think that makes sense, but whatever, here’s how it looks…