{"id":2511,"date":"2013-11-22T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T01:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2013-11-22T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T01:31:29","slug":"mortar-pestle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2511","title":{"rendered":"Mortar &#038; Pestle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-IMG_20131122_085931.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20131122_085931.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-IMG_20131122_085931.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m becoming more and more &#8220;auntie&#8221; or Ah Soh or \u5e2b\u5976 (or however way you want to call it) as I age &#8211; I bought myself this mortar and pestle set as a birthday gift last week. Kitchen contraptions now send me into bouts of delirium. <\/p>\n<p>This Ching He Huang (a British food writer) set was very expensive (HK$445) compared to another which was going for a quarter of its price. But I was a sucker for the pretty design &#8211; the sinewy grains of the brown bamboo bowl on which the well cut and sleek mortar sits is a good contrast of the wood and metal elements. The mortar can be removed from the bamboo bowl so that the latter can be used as a serving bowl for snacks. Neat. <\/p>\n<p>The flat surface of one side of the pestle also prevents it from rolling around &#8211; another thumbs up to the product designer. I also liked the set&#8217;s small size and light weight, making it easier to store and carry. <\/p>\n<p>Verdict: Money well spent. (But it&#8217;s really just me being a sucker for good design.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m becoming more and more &#8220;auntie&#8221; or Ah Soh or \u5e2b\u5976 (or however way you want to call it) as I age &#8211; I bought myself this mortar and pestle set as a birthday gift last week. Kitchen contraptions now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2511\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[48,185,183,184],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-shopping","tag-design","tag-kitchenware","tag-mortar","tag-pestle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}