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Its Business as usual for Laocook.

I have managed to repost most of the photos from the posts that were recovered by Darly, with a few exceptions (mostly from October 2006), most of Laocook is back. :)

Anyway, lets move on.

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Summer Rolls. Sheets of Vietnamese Rice Paper, filled with vegetables and poached Spring Chicken, served with Basil Oil and Sweet Chilli Sauce.

Light and extremely easy to eat, especially if you add crushed peanuts to the sauce! ;)

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The Amuse Bouche for last night ,Titanic Won Ton.

Okay, there is an evident sense of humour in the kitchens :-P

Chicken Won Tons, folded in to boat shapes then deep fried. Caramelised Onions are added to a light stock along with some Chives.

All we need now is an Iceberg and annoying soundtrack

Sadly some of the photos that accompanied some posts cannot be found, and as you know, I am having to repost all the photos from last August. The reason for this is that a few of the photos were taken especially for the site, and uploaded to the server (for safe keeping!).

Therefore I have decided to “crop” the site a little and remove some posts. This will mean that there will be some chronological gaps on the site, and some posts will have some parts removed.

For new visitors, this will not matter much (and you may wonder what this and the last post is all about!), but for regular visitors, I can only apologise.

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You know when people tell you to “Back Up” your work, “just incase something bad happens”, well guess what!?

The server hosting Laocook.com and our sister sites received the follow message.

“Your server has experienced a rather severe RAID / Hard drive malfunction and will need to be restored from available backup data. A new OS is being prepared at this point in time and we will begin a restore from backup when the initial preparations have been completed.”

Hmm, okay, that is unfortunate and we are down. But our hoster prouds itself on its extensive backup facilities. All will be well..at least..that is what we thought until we got the next message from our technician:

“Unfortunately during the restore we noticed that the backups for the server were all corrupt and unusable…”

Hmmm, several 4 letter words spring to mind ;)

Luckily for us, Darly found a few RSS Feeds and was able to bring back some of our pages. She also did a Back Up of nearly all the sites last August (before changing to Server “Titanic” ;) )

Working all through the night, she has painstakingly put back together the majority of Laocook.com, though we are sad to say that most of your comments (since the last Back Up) have been lost.

However, we are still here and ask you to be patient whilst we repost the missing photos, and piece back together the site and restore it to what it was.

In the meantime, the site may look a bit jumbled up :?

Yum Yum. ;)

A Yum (or Ngum) can be referred to as a Salad, or a cooking techique/ method. Most meats can be used, but Seafood is most common. The dressing is based on Lime, Chillies, Fish Sauce and Sugar (Sourness, Spiciness, Saltiness and Sweetness.)

We prefer to use lightly cooked Squid or Cuttlefish, the texture is almost noodle like.

The version that we serve has the addition of Pineapple and Red Peppers. The former giving the dish a tropical taste and the latter giving the sauce its nice Red colour. Its very easy to make, especially if you have a Food Blender available.

Its a great dish at anytime, especially refreshing in the Summer.