Chief Comments Canton

Now we're no food blogger - we don't have the necessary sensitive tastebuds to isolate each and every herb and spices used in the dish, nor do we have the handy notepad to jot down the taste experience, but we do have the ever-handy camera to take shots.

Altho'...like the Chief even asks, why do we take photos of food in the first place? No idea. Just because.

So last week we finally got the bug for movies, especially since the summer movies are starting to trickle in.

Angels & Demons? Good but not great, our attention to the movie was more to noticing the differences (vast differences!) from the book. Still not too bad and pretty straightforward, but like Da Vinci Code, will never be as good as the book.

Night At The Museum 2? Lighthearted fun. Please leave common sense at the front door - not because of the fact that things come alive, we're okay with that, but because of the things they do. The singing cherubs had us in laughter with their songs, tho'!

Star Trek? Must say it's good. Even tho' we kept making fun of how, when people try to elicit a emotional response from Spock, we kept pointing a finger and making sawing noises a la Sylar. We do wonder why are their uniforms rather baggy, tho'.

Oh yes. Food. Just before Star Trek we'd to do dinner, and as dinner goes we both found ourselves at Canton-I MidValley. And like we said, we're no food blogger...so we asked the Chief to comment and we mulled over it.

The Chief finds this slightly lacking...oh dear, we can't remember what it actually is now. Char siew pau comes to mind, but that's not it. There just wasn't enough meaty filling and it crumbles to bits.

The fried rice with chicken slices and salted fish, now, would have most people reaching for their glass of water after one spoonful. Too salty for the Chief, but we liked the dish.

The char tau kuey on the other hand, was easily the best dish we had. As the Chief puts it, firm crispy skin but once you bite into it, melts in your mouth. We tried a piece, it did exactly that, but also proceeded to burn our tongue.

Of course, the rice and char tau kuey didn't seem enough to fill us up, so we decided to get a bowl of congee to top it up. Smooth. Good for dumping in all that salted fish, except we didn't.

Their flower teas are really just plain decorative, bitter teas. We'll stick to the choices from Winter Warmers next time.

And of course, dessert. Since both of us love mangoes...we could have done without all that flakes, tho'.