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We’re proud to bring you a guest article written by our friend Mike, from Lynn, Massachusetts.  Mike is a frequent reader of this blog (as well as a long-time personal friend of The Bushman) and he knows our readers love articles about food!  So, please enjoy Mike’s first guest article:

The 2009 Phantom Gourmet BBQ Beach Party

Photos and article by Mike01905

Its time again fro the Phantom Gourmet BBQ Beach Party. “The Phantom Gourmet” is a TV show in the Boston area.  They review restaurants throughout most of the 6-state New England region and they review everything that is food related. Whether its Chinese, Sushi, Pizza, BBQ, Seafood, Bakeries, Candy shops, and anything else you can think of, they’ve reviewed it.

For the past 3 years, TV show has sponsored their BBQ Beach Party. They visited various BBQ Masters around the USA and invited the best of those that they visited to come to Boston to take part. The first 2 years were held at Boston City Hall Plaza. This year they held the event in 2 locations. On June 19-21 they were at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Ledyard, CT and on June 26-28 they were at Suffolk Downs in East Boston, MA.

Now I’m not much of a writer… but here is my article that MJ wanted me to write on the 2009 Phantom Gourmet BBQ Beach Party. I think at this time I need to give MJ’s “food warning” for this article.

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Photos by MJ Klein, and anyone else who grabbed my camera!

We had been wanting to do another roof party for some time, but lately we’ve been battling bad weather.  All during the week we were watching the weather forecasts to see if the approaching typhoon would veer off and spare us.  It did!  The party was a “go” for launch!

The clouds looked threatening, almost like they were saying that they weren’t going to give up so easily!  But the threat of a storm turned out to be mostly more hot air.

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Photos by MJ Klein & Hui-chen

Hui-chen and I are off on another adventure in Thailand. By the time you read this, we will already be there.  Of course we’ll have some new blog articles about our trip and you can be sure there will be plenty of photographs!

Now for today’s article.

We’ve all heard about visiting the large cities in China.  But have you ever wondered what it would be like to visit one of the more remote areas of China?  Recently we’ve been talking about our trip to Hegang which is in the Black Dragon Province of far northeastern China.  Hegang boasts a population of about one million people and yet it has a smaller town flavor about it.  Hegang is also way off the beaten track so the presence of foreigners in that town causes quite a stir sometimes.  In this article we’re going to show you what it’s like to go out for a night in this sleepy, coal-burning industrial town in the far northeast of China.

That’s Hui-chen in the bottom right corner of the photograph.  Others in our group are waiting on the food to arrive.

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Photos by Hui-chen and MJ Klein

The other day I was sitting at Shao-hui’s place when Shao-hui herself came over to me and mentioned that it had been some time since we had a grill party in front of her place, and that she would like to have another one that week.  Well, I don’t need a personal invitation like that, but it sure was nice hearing Shao-hui say it.

The day to have it turned out to be Thursday, and faster than you can say “mu tan” we had the charcoal lit!

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Photos by MJ Klein

One of the great things about Dutch oven cooking is the fact that anywhere you can build a fire is anywhere you can cook a delicious meal.  I carried my 12″ Dutch oven down to Kaoshiung over the holiday because I knew there would be an afternoon where I would want to relax and cook.  This is the story about what I cooked.

I started out by cutting up onions.  I also had baby carrots and small white potatoes so I didn’t need to cut those items up.  The only other things that I had which needed to be cut up were some mild bell peppers (shown later).  This type of cut shown here is one that I learned from a Chinese master chef back when I was being trained for restaurant work.

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Photos by MJ Klein

Hui-chen and I had a few opportunities to check out the new KRT while we were in Kaohsiung.  We also took a look at the “Dome Of Light” in Formosa Boulevard station.

Approaching the station, we saw these bikes in the rack:

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Photos by MJ Klein

Hui-chen, her 2 sisters and I decided to finally walk over to the new Dream Mall in Kaohsiung and ride the ferris wheel on top of the building.  This article contains quite a few photos but there are even more on my Flickr photostream.  Clicking on any photo will take you to the Flickr photo page.

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Photos by MJ Klein

Blogger Andres and his lovely wife Karen visited us recently, bringing along superbaby Olivia of course.  Since they had never been to the Hukou Old Street area before, we decided to show them around.

This is the main drag, and believe it or not, this crowd is light compared to most weekends.

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Food and other photos by MJ Klein

After the wedding, we went down to Kaohsiung to visit the family.  Ping-chen suggested that we check out a Korean style restaurant for lunch.  It was a great suggestion!

The sisters check out the menu

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Food and other photos by MJ Klein

We’ve been experiencing connectivity problems with our blog server, so please forgive the posting infrequency of late.

We decided to head over to Hsinchu City to a place we’d heard about in the Sogo Department Store. It turned out to be a good decision.

First course out of the kitchen was these bao-zhe.  A bit different and very tasty.

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