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Spicy Apple Salad with Deep Fried Drumstick and Pandan Rice
Spicy Apple Salad with Deep Fried Drumstick and Pandan Rice
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Wacky Foods (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Nikon D70
Location: Enmore NSW Australia
Date: Sep 28, 2004
Aperture: f4.8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/80 sec
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Sep 28, 2004

 Ingredients
Spicy Apple Salad
* 2 small green apples finely sliced
* 1 carrot finely sliced
* 4 cherry tomatoes halved
* 1 tbsp of dried shrimps
* 1 tbsp of crushed peanut
* 3-4 chilli (optional-I put 8 in this)
* 2 garlic cloves
* 2 tbsp of fish sauce
* 2 tbsp of lemon juice
* 1 tsp of palm sugar
Deep Fried Drumstick
* 2 mieduim drumsticks
* 1 tbsp of fish sauce
* 1 tsp of pepper
* 1 cup of flour
* Water
* Vegetable oil
Pandan Rice
* 2 cups of jasmine rice
* Pandan essence
* 1/2 cup of coconut milk
* salt
* sugar
* water
* Fried onion
Direction
1. Marinate drumsticks with fish sauce and pepper for 1/2 hour.
2. Put jasmine rice in a rice cooker, add water just for the rice level then mix coconut milk, 2 drops of pandan essence, a pinch of salt and sugar. Mix well and add water to the level of the rice cooker instruction. Turn the rice cooker on.
3. Pound chilli and garlic then add fish sauce, lemon juice and palm sugar into the mixture to make dressing.
4. Mix together apples, carrot, tomatoes, crushed nut and dried shrimps.
5. Mix flour and water then coat the drumsticks. Deep fry in vegetable oil.
6. When the the rice is cooked, set the drumstick on the side with the salad topped with the dressing. Garnish the rice with fried onion.

It was simply cook it, shoot it and eat it.
Yummmmm
In PS: level, curve and colour balance. No cropping

Statistics
Place: 83 out of 154
Avg (all users): 4.9866
Avg (commenters): 6.9333
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Avg (non-participants): 4.9579
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Votes: 298
Comments: 15
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1
 10/05/2004 07:44:23 PM
Very nice- almost looks like an advertisement
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Fujifilm FinePix S7000
 10/05/2004 05:02:41 PM
Lovely photograph and composition - however how is this wacky? Or is it just me that can't see it...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D300
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G DX VR
 10/05/2004 02:26:02 PM
Really nice photo! I don't really have any critique to offer, looks great! 9
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 10/05/2004 11:18:30 AM
mmmm this looks yummy..I like the composition, maybe could do without the plate of food behind it, but it's not a big problem. I think with a wee better lighting it could rock, or maybe it's just because of resizing that it looks off.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 10/04/2004 07:28:10 PM
Creative and very well executed! Sharp. Nice interesting but not too overwhelming background. This looks like something from a quality cookbook. "Wacky Foods" cookbook at least.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D200
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8D
 10/04/2004 02:40:35 PM
My only suggestion would be to focus on the single plate and the wine and forget about the plate in the background. Since the foreground is so much the focus everything looks centered this way. Just a little different crop would make the image much more powerful IMO.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/04/2004 02:21:28 AM
The off-centeredness throws me off a bit, but overall this captures the food so nicely that I have to rank it high. The food looks delicious and uncommon, and the depth of field and colors make me hone in on that flavor-encrusted, sharp food. It really is appetizing.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSC-P100
 10/02/2004 04:43:43 PM
Good capture...looks like in restorant.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D70
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 10/02/2004 10:34:28 AM
Nice shot, but it's a bit overexposed, i think. The food looks delicious!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D70s
Tamron SP AF 17-35mm f/2.8-4 Di LD Aspherical IF for Nikon
 09/30/2004 12:23:41 AM
The food is different. Great background. Nice color. Good job.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 09/29/2004 10:28:28 PM
Doesn't seem wacky to me. I do like the way it was photographed.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSC-F828
 09/29/2004 08:16:29 PM
This could be a terrific table top photo, unfortuenately, your depth of field falls off before, rather than after the rice...
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  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony Alpha a6700
Sony E 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS
 09/29/2004 03:16:12 PM
sounds and looks very tasteful to me, don't understand what is wacky here, but it is sure not everyday. some slight loss of detail in the rice.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Panasonic DMC-FZ20
 09/29/2004 01:49:28 PM
That looks yummy not wacky :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-550D Rebel T2i
 09/29/2004 08:10:46 AM
Damn that looks good.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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