Garlic bread vs prawn toast?

[Spymaster]

Quality is key in both cases, but unless really overcooked, sesame prawn toast is always slightly yummy (and can be utterly delicious).

Garlic bread on the other hand can be rendered inedible just by cooling down a bit. I particularly loathe those individual slices (4 per portion) beloved of Pizza Hut and their copy cats. Too dry by far.

Tbf, prawn toast is frequently overcooked and when it's like that it's a dry abomination. Well made and eaten straight from the kitchen (as opposed to a delivery) it kicks garlic bread's arse though.

 

[xenon]

Prawns aren't fruit. They're aquatic crustaceans, related to slaters.

I thought they were insects. Sea insects. Or I think someone told me that’s what they thought once.

Anyway prawn toast is better than garlic bread. That is just simple objective fact.

 

[ska invita]

Home made garlic bread: thick wholemeal toast, big chunks of garlic in olive oil wacked in the oven for a bit - killer

 

[Yossarian]

Apparently it's originally a Japanese 'fusion' dish and got into the Cantonese dim sum repertoire from there. Not all Chinese food is ancient. Last time I was in Beijing I was repeatedly sneered at for trying to order stuff that had been fashionable ten years before and everyone was eating mashed yam with blueberry jam :sickface:

It's not part of the usual Cantonese dim sum repertoire now, if it ever was - think it might be one of those dishes that fell out of fashion in their homeland but survived in takeaways people opened overseas. Sponge cakes are a totally normal dim sum dish though.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Home made garlic bread: thick wholemeal toast, big chunks of garlic in olive oil wacked in the oven for a bit - killer

Exactly. And how many times do we all make home made prawn toast?