I Wondered why the "Scallops" were so cheap!?!!

[anat0l]

Speaking of fried goodies, are dimmies (dim sims) called that elsewhere?
Swimming costume- bathers, but now budgies.
The rubber sandals - thongs - other places I think flip flops or jangles(?)

It's "dim sims" pretty much everywhere I went in Australia. In other circles it's "dim sum" (and pronounced as such), which is closer to the Cantonese pronunciation of the food item.

"Budgie smugglers" as it is now were called "Speedos" when I was a kid, and still are now. Suppose that's a borrowed Americanism...

The rubber sandals are known as thongs or flip flops. Most Asians, as I'm aware of, just call them slippers. The New Zealands like to call them jandals ("Japanese sandals").

Incidentally, I suspect that some of you call Potato Cakes "scallops" because they are shaped like the shell of the mollusc.

You're perhaps right on that, but as I said we clearly called them "potato scallops". A "scallop" in and of itself was asking for the sea mollusc. Certainly, a menu in a nice restaurant with an entree of seared scallops is not offering you some browned potatoes!

 

[amaroo]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Growing up in Victoria


Swimming costume- bathers, but now budgies.

As mentioned up-thread, I grew up with togs - QLD. As I got older they morphed into D*#k Stickers

 

[drron]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Those potato thingies were just scallops in the 50s in NSW.But sixpence would buy you a brown paper bag full of chips.A much better deal.

 

[woodborer]

It's "dim sims" pretty much everywhere I went in Australia. In other circles it's "dim sum" (and pronounced as such), which is closer to the Cantonese pronunciation of the food item.

I have to confess that the item sold as a dim sim by Australian fish and chip shops is not something I have encountered outside Australia. (see Dim sim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, although they claim it appears in NZ as well).

 

[anat0l]

I have to confess that the item sold as a dim sim by Australian fish and chip shops is not something I have encountered outside Australia. (see Dim sim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, although they claim it appears in NZ as well).

Interesting.... I never thought about the "distinction", I just thought that the chippie fried product (or often found in the hot snack section) was a siu mai - albeit often a lot bigger. And then called "dim sim" rather than "dim sum", which gives people a bit of a false impression when they go to have yum cha for the first time.

 

[JessicaTam]

Interesting.... I never thought about the "distinction", I just thought that the chippie fried product (or often found in the hot snack section) was a siu mai - albeit often a lot bigger. And then called "dim sim" rather than "dim sum", which gives people a bit of a false impression when they go to have yum cha for the first time.

Dim sims are definately an Aussie invention. Just like the Chicko roll - which contains beef, not chicken.

 

[juddles]

Dim sims are definately an Aussie invention. Just like the Chicko roll - which contains beef, not chicken.

True - chiko rolls have beef and lamb, but not chicken. That chicken myth still flourishes - even the ¨oficial¨ Wikipedia entry for Chiko rolls makes that mistake.


This article has the best short history of Chiko Rolls and their creator:

http://www.cooksinfo.com/chiko-rolls

 

[juddles]

...chiko rolls have beef and lamb....

should have read beef OR lamb - they were originally based on lamb (mutton), but at some point in history the meat content was migrated to beef.

 

[drron]

Seriously.There was meat in a Chiko roll?Not as I know it!:shock::shock:

 

[Deleted member]

Well I never knew all that. I thought it was a vegetable concoction.

 

[anat0l]

Well I never knew all that. I thought it was a vegetable concoction.

The meat may not be great quality but if you tried giving that to a vegetarian to claim it as such, they would assuredly deserve the right to kill you.

 

[cove]

For scallops I go for these at the Sir Stamford in Circular Quay in Sydney or at the Seafood restaurant in the Mezz in Mount Hawthorn (in Perth).Both know how to make the scallops melt in your mouth.

 

[Major]

Seriously.There was meat in a Chiko roll?Not as I know it!:shock::shock:

It mainly contained cabbage, carrots and other unidentifiable vegetables

 

[amaroo]

For scallops I go for these at the Sir Stamford in Circular Quay in Sydney or at the Seafood restaurant in the Mezz in Mount Hawthorn (in Perth).Both know how to make the scallops melt in your mouth.

Have a soft spot for Bather's Pavilion Bathers's Pavilion iPhone site

 

[whatmeworry]

"Budgie smugglers" as it is now were called "Speedos" when I was a kid, and still are now. Suppose that's a borrowed Americanism...

The rubber sandals are known as thongs or flip flops. Most Asians, as I'm aware of, just call them slippers. The New Zealands like to call them jandals ("Japanese sandals").

Speedos were originally an Australian brand.

In Croatia, thongs are called Japanke.