How do you have your steak?

Fair point!

I do it all myself at least! Don’t get a servant to do it…

To be honest the steak probably costs more than the equipment!

 

To be honest I have no qualms about spending extortionate amounts on food. Cooking is absolutely one of my passions and I’m very much a “live to eat” person.

 

I leave the cows in the field where they belong #friendsnotfood

 

I don’t eat meat anymore, but I have previously been a medium guy.

 

I actually much prefer a high quality burger to a steak. Not a massive meat eater these days, but I find turning a good burger down very difficult.

 

Heading down that road too , no idea why , just drifted into it.
Maybe because there seem to be a bit more meat free varieties of food here in Singapore than when I used to live in UK.

 

That's quite surprising, as whenever I've been to Asia I've found meet free options quite limited. Thailand was not bad for that, especially on the coast as there are loads of fish options. But trying to go meat free in China would be an absolute nightmare I reckon.

 

Fish is meat.

 

Ml

Agreed completely. I didn't really word that very well, did I?!

 

Me too. Also depends on the cut - one of my favourite things to cook at home is skirt steak (when I can get hold of it), and I like that fairly thinly sliced and then barely touched with a smoking hot pan.

 

Well done, no mooing allowed.

 

I have a strong stomach and will try pretty much any food, but sea urchin is the most disgusting thing I've ever tasted

 

I'm also up for trying anything, but when my missus and her sister went out for sea urchin recently I politely declined, meeting up with them in a bar afterwards to discuss the experience. The way they described it didn't make it sound any more appetising than I'd imagined it to be. I think it's the texture that I'd find most offputting.

 

I’ve seen better wording from Hemsworth Tyke

 

That's quite a serious accusation!

 

Some parts could be a challenge , but Shandong , Xi'an and Szechuan I think got very good vegetarian options.
Dont forget Asia got India and Southern India majority vegetarian , and until recently Southern Indian was the largest demographic of South Asian in Singapore so they have plenty of places here offering meat free goodness.

 

Our best place for proper meat free food in Thailand (and not just fish and seafood as opposed to animals with legs @Wellsie ) was definitely Chiang Mai, which seemed to have a heavy Indian influence.

China is a huge country of course, and so categorising food as "Chinese" is about as helpful as saying "European" is a food type. However, I have a funny story about two ex-vegetarian friends who were travelling to Beijing on the Trans-Siberian. They'd been warned that in many parts of China even the concept of vegetarianism is pretty alien to most people, so they were pretty wary about taking great care over what to order. Bearing in mind they'd just been in Russia, where otherwise vegetarian soups are often made with meat stock, but at least they had me and my wife to check their restaurant orders very carefully. Anyway, as luck would have it they ended up chatting with a very friendly Russian guy on the train who happened to be a translator between Russian, English and Chinese. They explained the situation, and he wrote down a number of phrases in Chinese to help them -

"we don't eat meat"
"we don't eat chicken"
"please do not give us fish"

etc......

Armed with their phrases, they were looking forward to their first meal in China when they stopped in Harbin, the first city over the border. They walked into a cafe, and showed the bits of paper to the lady. She smiled, nodded and went into the kitchen. About 20 minutes later, she returned with several dishes, most of which smelled very meaty, and contained objects which were difficult to define exactly but definitely bore a resemblance to poultry innards. To this day they're not entirely sure exactly what went wrong, though they assume that the giblets probably didn't count as "meat" in the mind of the lady. For the first few days in China they just ate rice, before finally succumbing and going back to an omnivorous life after several years as veggies!

 

For years I had them well done but after a work mate persuaded me to try it medium rare and it was one of the best decision I ever made, so much more tasty and succulent

 

I’m not of the view of some that overly criticise those who like steak well done (and their definition of well done is generally somewhat different to what well done means in the better restaurants too) - but I couldn’t ruin a good cut of meat by having it over cooked and tough.

Depending on the establishment and the cut I vary between rare and medium - medium rare is generally fine. If it’s a rib eye I go medium, and if I’m having steak in a generic boozer for example I tend to ask for rare as any mention of the word medium tends to end up with your steak not even having a hint of pink left in it