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Pâté chinois
Last night we had delicious pâté chinois for dinner, along with poutine (from Becker's), sardines on toast, broccoli/tomato/zucchini salad, and pumpkin pudding for dessert!
We invited our friends Edwige and her boyfriend Eiki, and also Tomoko's sister Yuko. We also had a bit of a ping pong tournament. :)
To the uninitiated
Pâté chinois is a sort of pie with three layers: corn, meat and potatoes, and it has nothing to do with Chinese.
Poutine is french fries with cheese and gravy sauce.
Both are Canadian meals. However pâté chinois, when translated into English, becomes "shepherd's pie", but I heard that the UK's shepherd's pie lacks the corn? which is essential to good pâté chinois!
Make sure you try out these two next time you're in Québec!
In Tokyo, poutine can be found at Becker's, a fast food chain!
Check out their full menu here.
Posted on August 22, 2003 at 08:24 | Tweet
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