My Nunavut style Chinese meal.

 From September 2022-June 2023, I worked for the Nunavut Department of Education as an ESL, ELA or Grade 9 teacher. I did all three in 9 months.

Sanirajak, Nunavut formerly known as Hall Beach was established around 1956 as a DEW line site. By 1993 with the huge budget cut to the military, the DEW line site was modernized and downsized to become part of the NWS, one of the NORAD components.

The town frew up around the base and has 2 stores. COOP and The Northern Store.

I usually went to the Northern to get food.

Nunavut is very isolated from the rest of Canada. There are no roads connecting the communities or to the rest of Canada. Everything comes in by Sealift or flown in.

The Arctic has its charms. It has a harsh climate and 2 interesting times of year. No daylight and then 6 months of it.

After awhile as a single guy living up there, you really wanted toctry and liven up your food.

So I ordered in about 300.00 worth of spices, sauces to make what I enjoy.

So I ordered Pad Thai from VH and Butter Chicken sauce also from VH.

My parcel arrived. The Inuit girl at the post office noted itxwas the biggest parcel they had shipped up.

I was like, how much sauce had I ordered.

Both the Pad Thai and Butter Chicken were in a case of 12 bottles.

Oops.

Anyway, I decided to make a proper Chinese take out meal. I lucked in and had Basmati rice from the store and a rice steamer from a coworker. I had frozen Asoan vegetables. I was craving Sweet and,Sour chicken balls.

So what did I do?

I bought a box of chicken nuggets, fired them into my air fryer I had bought at the store then drowned them in VH Cherry sauce the store hadn't sold.

My Pad Thai I made with frozen vegetables, shrimp and spaghetti.