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Burmese Fusion Catering Menu

Happy Birthday Rowena!!! It was my ex coworker and a good friend and a foodie birthday. She had asked me specifically a theme of Burmese Cuisine. However, we did collaborate ours thoughts and ideas and came up with this particular menu of which bring her friends together to celebrate together and have joys and concluded with a perfect menu. Happy Birthday to you. May you celebrate more. Please Check her @ragrinds ( https://www.instagram.com/ragrinds)   Taste of Burma Did you know Burma is surrounded by Indian and Bangladesh in the west, China in the north, Thailand in the East and South Easte of which make the Cuisine so exquisite? Picking up Wines to pair with Burmese food is not so difficult but Burmese food is subtle cuisine to pair with unless you know the background or the root. To know more, please ask @AlohaBurma.        This is Pork and Shrimp dumplings inspired by Chinese dumpling and I served with Hot and Sour "Tom Yum" soup fr...
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Hyatt Regency. Nov 28. 2010.

First Day at Al Dente Hyatt Regency Guam! After two days of oreantation ( Nov 22/23, 2010), I had to wait to get to work because I didn't have the Health certificate from Guam. The interesting thing is although I have Serve Safe certificate from NRA in the US, I am still not allow to handle the food at the restaurant. Anyway, I got the temporary one and went to work today no knowing anyone there except I have met chef Jo at the interview day as well as executive chef Josef.   I got to work place before 3 pm and got my uniform and wore it and took that pic above in the locker room. I still need to get my locker. Today I couldn't get because the HR is closed for the weekend. After that, I went to clock in.    Then I went up to Al Dente and met sous chef Jo and met other kitchen staffs. They all welcome me as it is my first day. They all are young except the head chef Edge. I still do need to orient in the kitchen : I was assigned to work with comi chef at cold station ...
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Home Made Fish Sauce

Today is Oct 13th 2014. It is Monday that we normally do menu development for our restaurant but we close every Monday for Oct.        I shared the story about how we make Fish Sauce back home_ He smiled and told me, " you look so excited to talk about fish sauce". Of course, I know exactly how I made it and experience start from the beginning in the rain. I do value that at least "Tapos is not only the fish sauce commercially coming from the bottle".There are variety of fish sauce from different south east asian countries : nước mắm  Vietnam nam  pal        Thailand ngan byar yee Myanmar nam pa         Lao teuk trei       Cambodia.                      Although it may called  different names in different countries, it should be similar to make one out of fish. Some may use Anchovies, some may use squid, some may use som...
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