Comments on: Paper Chef Lucky 13: Oooh, Fishy, fishy, fishy, fish…

By: Silvester

Silvester — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:21:48 +0000

from the jaws of death,

By: ChovyChap

ChovyChap — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:47:47 +0000

Very creative. I’d love to have seen somebody actually biting the head off one of the fish while eating your creation. I’d dare anyone to do it. Anyway, I can get them at a local Asian food store, so I might have fun making it and presenting them to some unsuspecting guests. See which of them is game enough!

By: mrs D

mrs D — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:34:06 +0000

Thanks Noodle! We had a ton of fun doing this, and I have to say we’re still quite in shock over the win! Now as for the Fosters… well, in our defense I plead:
1) it was lying about so we didn’t actually purchase it for the occasion.
and
2) Our tiny town, sadly, only knows one Australian beer.

(Yeah, we shoulda sprung for a bottle of Shiraz…)

By: 2-minute Noodle Cook

2-minute Noodle Cook — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:23:46 +0000

Everyone had lots of laughs over the creative writing in this Paper Chef entry. The beer and incense (citronella to keep the mosquitos and flies away during summer) are very Australian! Although there was some dispute of the brand of beer ;) Thanks for making judging such a wonderful experience for all.

By: mrs D

mrs D — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:27:03 +0000

Lady X — we didn’t search very hard mind you. I should note, also, that the Foster’s wasn’t purchased for the meal, but was a happy accident: Chopper’s predilection toward beer in cans + lack of time to take the recycling to the dump = empty Foster’s cans lying about.

Kalyn, you do realize that one of these months we’re all going to drag you kicking and screaming into the fray?

Ed. Koala. You’re scaring me. And that’s not easy.

Anthony, yes, I’ve mentioned the piss comparison to Chopper, but no luck. Myself, I prefer beer with a bit of density to it.

Also, beauty is truth; truth beauty, but sometimes a fish is just a fish. :-)

By: anthony

anthony — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:44:31 +0000

Fosters - it’s Danish for foetus and Australian for piss.

Like the anchovies
Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!

By: Ed Charles

Ed Charles — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:30:50 +0000

Love the anchovy garnish. My ambition is to eat a Koala.

By: Kalyn

Kalyn — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:07:27 +0000

Once again very impressive. I love the addition of the can of Fosters for the sake of festivity. There was once a time when several cans of Fosters would make me quite festive, but those days are long gone (sigh). Thanks for the birthday wishes. I must confess, these paper chef ingredients intimidate me completely. I am hoping sometime there will be a list I dare to tackle.

By: Lady X

Lady X — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:17:17 +0000

Okay, the fact that you actually searched for penguin vendors is so funny (and a little disturbing - just kidding)! I love how you used the dried anchovy as a garnish for your siu mai and well, that last picture with the Foster’s is priceless.

By: mrs D

mrs D — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 16:03:29 +0000

Hey everyone! Thanks for the great comments!

Kevin — so sorry to hear you couldn’t join in. We barely scraped the time to do this, what with Chopper’s new weekend work schedule. I mean, he has to cook for other people on Saturdays and Sundays. The nerve!

Stephen — We all got pretty geeky with it, eh? Notice how Chopper and I ended up in China even so. :-)

Hey Tricia — I didn’t see that link before. Cool! (Clearly my google-fu was inferior to yours that day.) I tried it though and we ended up with a big sea of blue, so in the end the atlas worked best since we could actually view a page with important things on it like longitude lines and names of tiny little islands we didn’t know existed!

Thanks, Katy — it’s nice to see you here!

Hey Sam — aww, you’re too kind. ::blush::

Jennifer — exploiting cute, fuzzy animals? Us? Oh, wait… um… I hate to say this, but we have an upcoming post with sheep, and well… Sigh. Yeah, you’re right. At least I no longer have a pet rabbit.

Hey Cookiecrumb — I thought they’d fall over too, actually. We tested just one first and discovered all it did was get a little bendy. Kind of like a miniature catapult for, say, unwanted peas or something.

Hee! Thanks, Sarah! (Y’know, I should have remembered French colonies from my stamp collecting days, silly me. All those pretty stamps with tropical fruit on them. As for the Crozet islands — cute penguin stamps? No, just pictures of big pointy rocks that cause shipwrecks.

Hey Brett, thanks! I had no idea about those fishies being served in bars. That is seriously cool, not to mention much healthier than Chex Mix.

Hi Elise! With sugar? Wow. I can’t begin to imagine what that would taste like. (No, I don’t think I’m going to experiment and find out. Not today, anyway