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An in-depth look at a gourmet restaurant dish that may cost you your life. This article is really cool because each fish contains enough poison to kill 30 adults. And there's no antidote. Yet thousands of people still eat it every year and a few die as a result. Worth checking out.
January has been a month of abstinence for me. Not exactly a diet, but no booze, no coffee, no cows’ milk, no crusty bread, no hard cheese and no red meat. Despite constant cravings, I’ve eaten well. I’ve learnt to love goats’ milk, become a master at steaming and poaching – particularly fish – and a whiz at making a meal of salad.
Fish is nutritious and easy to cook. Chinese, especially, must have a fish dish during special occasion meals, such as reunion dinner during the Chinese New Year. Fish, in Chinese is pronounced as "Yu", which means "abundance".
Swensen's is launching its latest promotional menu to coincide with the Lunar New Year month of February 2008, with a contemporary rendition of fish meals, which is supposed to bring luck and prosperity to diners. The "Prosperity Catch" promotion will run for the month of February 2008, at all 22 Swensen's restaurants in Singapore.
The first time I met Malcolm Jolley we had beers on the patio at the Beaconsfield and talked about various story ideas that I might write about. One of the things I suggested was a piece explaining staff meals. He thought that people would be interested to know what a restaurant employee eats. They are not usually eating the same things...
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