fried quail eggs and the BBC Chronicles of Narnia

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These bite-sized eggs are my favorite streetside snack lately. they're quail eggs fried up in the sort of ableskiver pans they use to cook a number of different foods here. The guy generously oils the little cast iron hemispheres and cracks a quail egg into each one. A couple minutes of cooking and he pops them out with a spoon and drops them onto a bed of shredded cabbage in a styrofoam bowl. When you place an order, he sets a couple of fresh, hot eggs on top and spritzes the whole thing with a spray bottle (like the ones we use at home to punish karl) of soy sauce. The result is a rich, salty, protein-rich snack, all for about 30 US cents.

quail egg vendor
(squid-on-a-stick vendor in the background)

quail eggs by the river

On an un-food related note: I spent Sunday in my neighborhood doing laundry at home, swimming at the school pool with a group of (strangely un-supervised) second graders and buying groceries at the market. In the evening I nestled down in my sweltering bedroom and watched what is, perhaps, my number one favorite childhood movie (well, series of movies) ...

The BBC's 1988 production of The Chronicles of Narnia!

I have to watch it in hideously low resolution 9-minute segments on youtube, but it's entirely worth it.
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