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Fried Cucumbers
medium micro quest 30 min +50 XP
Have you ever had Asian-style fried cucumbers? No? It's delicious. Your task — try them. Cook them yourself, find them in a restaurant, ask a friend to teach you. Photograph the plate before and after.
Why this matters
A fried cucumber sounds like a mistake until you taste one. Half an hour to test one of your own no thanks.
What to do
Take a couple of firm cucumbers, split them lengthwise, scrape out the seeds and cut them on the diagonal. Salt them, let them sit ten minutes and pour off the water, otherwise they go limp. Get a pan properly hot, add a spoon of oil, garlic and dried chilli if you have it, then the cucumbers. Fry on high for a couple of minutes, stirring: they should take colour but stay crunchy. Splash in soy sauce, toss once and take them off immediately. Photograph the plate before and after — the second shot is usually the convincing one.
Afterwards
How many simple things have I skipped only because they sounded strange?
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