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This is a picture of one of Britains cultural gifts to the world*** warning those prone to excessive salivation may choose to look away ***It is simple fare, just two hunks of bread lovingly embracing a suitable number of rashers of hot fried back bacon (preferably smoked)The bread should be mass produced thick sliced white breadNote - This is not a “BLT” (where the bacon is cold - Bacon Buttie HAS to be hot)That’s it nothing else…….. simple and perfectThere are variants….. some socially acceptable some that indicate a lack of cultural maturityAcceptable VariantsButtering the breadAddition of Red or Brown sauceAddition of a soft fried egg (but not for our bearded friends) - NOTE this may result in an egg banjoToasted breadSubstituting a roll/barm/cob/bap for sliced breadUse of Brown BreadUnacceptable VariantsBread described as “rustic”, “organic” or “artisan”Melted CheeseUse of Streaky BaconCremated Bacon - Bacon should not produce shrapnel when bittenBrioche BreadSmall flags impaled into the buttieSliced cold tomato or similarUse of substitute “meat” - “Bacon Grill” is posh spam NOT baconDespicably Barbaric (with a slight whiff of “French” to it)MayonaiseMustardPickled veg of ANY descriptionAddendumThere have been multiple comments/suggestions to this recipe - many of which frankly are unspeakable acts of vandalism to this cultural icon

The food only women can cook.It’s not sexist, it’s Nyonya cuisine. The incredible precise techniques necessary to create the food that gives Nyonya cooking its revered status within Peranakan communities.Peranakan men are called Baba (uncle), women are Nyonya (auntie) - it’s not by chance that the spicy, piquant cuisine is named after the females. The matriarchal recipes are passed down from one generation to the next, and are expected to be mastered by the women in the family. I was made to cook some of the dishes when grandma lost her sight - I was 10yo.There were no recipes, it’s all in the head, by memory. Grandma barked instructions on the spot. Seemingly straightforward dishes like herbal rice required a precise blend of herbs and spices, pounded by mortar and pestle and mixed by hand to ensure the perfect temperature and consistency of the rice.Grilled fish were taken up a notch by being wrapped in banana leaves and grilled under hot charcoal to preserve the aromatics, and served with a sour, spicy sauce made from calamansi limes (juiced by hand of course) and belacan (shrimp paste).There were no juicer/blender then - even if we had, it’s not allowed - which is believed to compromise flavours. Instead, coconut milk was squeezed from hand-grated coconut meat by hand, and spice pastes are pounded in a mortar and pestle.Nyonya cuisine is slowly dying. Young Nyonya women are reluctant to learn old-school techniques, the technical practices that define Nyonya cooking - the endangered part of its culinary heritage.Addendum:Nyonya restaurants in Malacca (Melaka) - one of the major abodes for Peranakans - thrive to this day by tweaking recipes to cater to tourists and offering vegetarian dishes - which is unusual because most Nyonya dishes are meat based.I have eaten at a few authentic Nyonya restaurants in the historical city and generally they are good, some dishes excellent. Owner chefs are women of course, trained by their mothers and grandmothers in the kitchen in their youth - where “agak-agak”, the Nonya term for estimation of ingredients used, was an important part of cooking. Typical, no written recipe.

Hmmm… I wonder if this question came from someone conversant with the Chinese language. In Chinese, the two characters together representing Brazil are 巴西. The first character, 巴 (bā), is also found as the first character in the Chinese word for Pakistan (巴基斯坦). The second character, 西 (xī), means Western or Occidental. However, rather than having anything to do with West Pakistan (now simply Pakistan), or even more remotely, to Pangaea, when all continents were one, I suspect that these two characters (bāxī) together created an approximation of the phonetic rendering in Chinese of the country name, “Brazil”.Addendum #1 (29 June 2017) to my 22 June 2017 response to Brazil-Pakistan & my personal editorial comments:Upon first reading this Quora post one week ago, I too thought that the OP needed a remedial lesson in geography. However, I tried to give the OP the benefit of the doubt and think of a reason why someone might have honestly formulated this question. So I provided a hypothesis that the question might have been a confused but sincere inquiry formulated by someone with a working knowledge of Chinese. With additional information about the OP and his other “questions” that has been revealed by Quora, I now wish to retract my hypothesis where I attempted to come up with a rational explanation for this strange inquiry.Now we’ve learned that Quora has determined, as have a number of respondents to the question, that this Brazil-Pakistan connection inquiry might be a troll question (see Quora’s comments at the top banner of this thread, below the question). On learning of Quora’s take on this question, I reviewed the other 230 questions of the OP and, indeed, many are frankly bizarre and nonsensical. Some are even reminiscent of computer generated random associations.One can speculate on the reasons for this behavior. That said, it is a sad day when so many well-intentioned Quorans have devoted considerable hours and energy of their own time trying to respond to the inquiry blasts of this individual, who appears to need assistance beyond what we can provide within the framework of answers on a social media forum. Fortunately, it appears that Quora monitors have also recognized this. The OP’s account has now been banned.Quora serves a noble purpose for getting information from knowledgeable experts into the hands of sincere people with legitimate questions. Let’s keep it that way and not allow the forum to descend into the nether world of troll control!Addendum #2 (4 July 2017) to my 22 June 2017 response to Brazil-PakistanSeveral commentators, despite learning later of the “troll” nature of the OP’s question, had really nice comments about how I “connected the dots” between Brazil and Pakistan and wanted to know what the logical thought processes were that allowed me to arrive at that “insight”. I want to take this opportunity to thank those of you who were kind enough to take the time to write those comments.Truth be told, my most complete response to how I discovered the possible linguistic connection that might have led someone to be confused about what is an apparent geographical, historical, and political non-sequitur to most of us, was my response to the comments of correspondent Felipe Régis. For those of you who asked about my hypothesis on the putative “Brazil-Pakistan connection”, I have reproduced my response here in this 2nd Addendum. So my thought process went like this:“It’s a bit of a long story but an interesting one. I wish I could say that I am fluent in English, Portuguese, and Chinese but, alas, while my Portuguese is improving, I know nothing of Mandarin. But, as it happens, I was reading a different post on Quora, “Fascinated with Brasil”, where a young Chinese man said that his parents had taken him in the city of Shenzhen to a Brazilian Churrascaria [barbecue restaurant]. He included the Chinese characters in parentheses (巴西烤肉). Well, who knew that they had Brazilian steakhouses in China?! That aroused my curiosity because he used only those four characters to describe a Brazilian style rodizio [a specific type of Brazilian restaurant where all of the waiters continuously circulate to all of the tables with unlimited quantities of food for customers to choose from].”“I wanted to find out what those characters meant so I first divided them into two parts and ran them through Google Translate Chinese (simplified) → Português. Here’s what I found: (巴西 = Bāxī = Brasil [Brazil]) and (烤肉 = kaoròu = grelha [barbecue]). So that made perfect sense, describing a “grelha brasileira” [Brazilian barbecue].”“Then I was curious to see what the individual characters represented. So I also ran them through Google Translate Chinese (simplified) → Português. And here’s what the translate result gave me: (烤 = kao = assado [grilled]) and (肉 = ròu = carne [meat]). So that too makes perfect sense, right? “Carne assado” [grilled meat]. But the real surprise came when I put the other characters into Google Translate. Here’s what it said: (巴 = Bā = Paquistão [Pakistan]) and (西 = xī = occidental [west]).”“Right after doing that analysis, I happened to notice the Quora question about the Brazil-Pakistan connection. Normally I would pass by a question like that because, on the surface, it seemed so silly. But having just done the character analysis I described above, it was like a bolt of lightning struck my brain and I was able to understand why some person with a knowledge of Chinese might have posed that question. Unfortunately, as you know, the rest of the story did not have a happy ending, with the post suspected by Quora as being a troll question. This was confirmed when I looked at the OPs other 229 questions and saw that he had been banned by the Quora moderators.”“You know, I’ve been a physician for many years. In medicine, we learn the “art” of arriving at a diagnosis not only through patient history, textbook knowledge, laboratory data, and physical exam findings. There is also an element of intuition in the process that comes from our own experience as doctors. This is also true in the scientific method in general where sometimes a good hunch leads to an improbable but amazing discovery. So I think I’ll look upon this Quora experience under that positive light, rather than being “bummed out” by having been deceived by a troll.”As I mentioned to another of the commentators on my post in this thread, in the English language, when something good comes out of bad starting materials or information, we say it’s like “turning lemons into lemonade”. I hope that, looking upon my sincere response to this troll question in that light, readers will at least have learned something positive about how we can analyze data or situations for meaning, no matter how absurd they may at first appear on the surface. :-)