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Trivial Pursuits => Sports & Leisure => Topic started by: linnea on August 06, 2006, 05:17:29 pm
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Dammit. In Denver, there were a million places to get these delicious treats. Daifuku are a Japanese candy (wagashi) that is a soft, smooth outside (mochi, made from rice flour) covering a sweet inside that is anko, or sweet red bean jam. It might sound weird, but they are hella delicious. I found one place that sells them (http://www.maruwa.com/onlineshop/chilled/chilled.html) but it's like forty dollars to get it shipped! Yikes! Talk about ridiculous. My sisters brought some up with them, but I can't seem to get any of the shops here to stock them. Grrr. Maybe I should save up a bunch of money and buy like 4 dozen and have them shipped up.
Anyone else a fan of dessert? Post 'em here!
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Damn. "Daifuku" sounds like some Japanese villain/right hand henchman from an Austin Powers movie. "What's your name" "Daifuku" "Well that's not very nice" ad nauseum.
Japanese candy in general is a mystery to me. Once our school invited two nice Japanese ladies who brought in some food. I don't remember much about that day after I'd eaten some INSANELY sugary CUNT stuff. If the kids over there chow down on this stuff regularly they must be jumping off the walls. Insanely sugary.
Since then, I have never found any Japanese candy anywhere. Next time somebody sends me a mixdisc, pack some with it and you will get a tiny can of Dr Pepper. A beautiful exchange of sugary goods.
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Well, Wikipedia says that daifuku means "great luck", so maybe these liittle guys are eaten around New Years? I love them. I am dying for one right now. They do sell cans of anko at one of the little asian markets here, but eating anko straight outta the can isn't very satisfying. I also bought some rice flour and tried to make some...don't ever try that. It was disastrous. That stuff is unbelievably sticky -- unbelievably so -- and I cannot believe I managed to avoid clogging my kitchen sink drain with it.
They are so satisfying. They are this squidgy little cake that is soft and tasty. They have a lot of sugar, but they are fat-free, which is rad. Plus they probably have more fibre than most dessert.
My other favorite dessert is a chocolate milkshake from one of the local restaurants here. I have no idea how they make them so delicious, but I do know that I've never had a milkshake that tasty. They cost $5, but they are so worth it. Unfortunately, they have like...an entire DAY'S worth of calories in them. Kellichou got an awesome chocolate-avocado shake from there while she was here that totally rocked the casbah.
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never had a milkshake that tasty. They cost $5, but they are so worth it.
Did you just order a five dollar shake?
Milk and ice-cream, they don't put bourbon in it or nothing?
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Did you just order a five dollar shake?
Milk and ice-cream, they don't put bourbon in it or nothing?
<buddy holly> No...
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You'll be lucky if you get anything at all.
I don't think Buddy Holly's much of a waiter.
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Did you just order a five dollar shake?
Milk and ice-cream, they don't put bourbon in it or nothing?
There's a place up the street from me that has $5 Hot Chocolate. The sign says something like, "$5 Hot Chocolate. No Questions Answered. Savor the Mystery."
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You'll be lucky if you get anything at all.
I don't think Buddy Holly's much of a waiter.
Hypocrite (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,2938.msg70139.html#msg70139)! :P
(okay it's film and not literary but you get the drift.)
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Actually, it was Doc who posted the schmucky "I get it!" post, then Linnea followed-up. I was just keeping the stream alive.
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I tried froogle, and this place (http://veryasia.com/jafrrica.html) seems to be the most professional looking site there. Shipping (http://veryasia.com/shipping.html) would be like $17 to Alaska, though.
The idea looks really interesting, though. Bean paste-based filling might be lots better than our standard sugar amalgams.
Also: you have instilled a desire for milkshakes in me. I might have to journey to the Carvel now.
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There's a place up the street from me that has $5 Hot Chocolate. The sign says something like, "$5 Hot Chocolate. No Questions Answered. Savor the Mystery."
Where is this? I have to have it.
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Where is this? I have to have it.
It was at Common Grounds in Arlington. But Common Grounds turned into Murky so they might not have it anymore.
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I want that hot chocolate now, not enough places taunt you into purchasing their product these days.
And don't accuse me of the follow up post, I don't think Linnea was making a deliberate PF reference there.
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Did you check Hawaii? We have hell of such things as Japanese food items.
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I want that hot chocolate now, not enough places taunt you into purchasing their product these days.
And don't accuse me of the follow up post, I don't think Linnea was making a deliberate PF reference there.
I think you are right, Linnea was making the "I get it" post, after not taking the advantage to make a "joke".
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Okay, Doc's post was not re-referencing Linnea's source post, and thus is immune from the schmucky "I get it, see!" follow-up status.
Linnea's post, then, was definitely doing the IGI! thing, and then mine was just doing the ironic "I see what you're doing, and I get that you get it" thing.
I like to break these things down for the sake of Education.
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That's not even a breakdown.. that's.. that's gnawing on the bones of meta-wankery until there's nothing left and then coming back for the marrow.
Jeezus... good job on that.
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Talk about dessert please!
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Talk about dessert please!
Q: Why doesn't Amazon sell Pocky?
A: Apparently, just to piss me off.
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I was about to say "But you can buy Pocky in all the Asian markets," and then I realized, what century am I living in, thinking it is OK that someone has to go to a store.
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Q: Why doesn't Amazon sell Pocky?
A: Apparently, just to piss me off.
Super H Market, Fairfax, VAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. All the Pocky you wants.
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J-list? get yourself a nice Hello Kitty vibrator while you're at it.
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ex-girlfriend:"hey dan, look what my friend gave me!"
*presents hello kitty "massager"*
me: "um, wow. that's... why are you showing me this?"
she: "isn't it cool?"
me: "you're my girlfriend. so, um.... who gave you this?"
she:"val!"
me:"the girl you drunkenly cheated on me with?"
she:"um... yes?"
that girl gave me stories enough to last the rest of my life.
also, this Daifuku stuff sounds basically delicious.
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Say no more, lest you ruin the rest of the story for me.
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DESSERT.
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DESSERT.
Dessert (http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF066AD-Nunez.jpg#136).
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We've been here (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,2842.msg67065.html#msg67065) before.
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Dessert (http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF066AD-Nunez.jpg#136).
hahahaaa, I love that strip so much. Kellichou always says, "It was a delicious death, Braaaaak!" to me at random times, and that is the phrase that came to mind when I saw that PBF strip. fuck*ng win.
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Now that I looked up Daifuki, as near as I can tell, it's just a mochi ball with something inside. Is this correct?
If this is correct, I've had these about 100 times, been offered them about 1000 times and I can buy them by the metric assload.
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And this whole time I just thought Linnea was into lesbian schoolgirl hentai. (http://d-stage.com/shop/m/mdetail.php?seq=832&c1_s=5&c2_s=5_52&Joycartdstage=e5163993ab7cced2f1a0ac1574e66c28) Huh.
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DESSERT.
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I REALLY WANT SOME GODDAMN DAIFUKU. WTF, STOMACH? why do i crave foods which I have never tasted.
i had a dream where my dad was obsessed with eating this Somalian food, which consisted of a variety of peppers/spices, a tortilla, and meat. which had been basted (although, in the dream this meant "cooked") for 28 years. or days. it kind of alternated.
in the end, I showed my mom a report saying that no Somalian restaurant had ever passed health inspection-- and that this special meat was bad For Children. This involved yelling "28 anos? es mejor de mi!" and her correcting my grammar.
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Speaking of Daifuku - I believe we were speaking of daifuku? - red bean paste is practically the only thing in Japanese cuisine that I don't like, even though I have tried again and again. (OK, that and natto. But we were talking about dessert). This is very sad because Japanese food and dessert are two of my favorite things, so it is sad not to be able to enjoy most traditional Japanese pastry.
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Speaking of Daifuku - I believe we were speaking of daifuku? - red bean paste is practically the only thing in Japanese cuisine that I don't like, even though I have tried again and again. (OK, that and natto. But we were talking about dessert). This is very sad because Japanese food and dessert are two of my favorite things, so it is sad not to be able to enjoy most traditional Japanese pastry.
Don't eat natto (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000169.php)!
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Speaking of Daifuku - I believe we were speaking of daifuku? - red bean paste is practically the only thing in Japanese cuisine that I don't like, even though I have tried again and again. (OK, that and natto. But we were talking about dessert). This is very sad because Japanese food and dessert are two of my favorite things, so it is sad not to be able to enjoy most traditional Japanese pastry.
Yeah, I get you there. It's a great frustration because the flavor is fine, but I can't take the weird mealiness of bean paste. I think I need to work on my food-texture problems, especially if I get more serious about Japanese food.
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You're right, it is more the texture. Not only is it mealy but you're always running across, like, whole chunks of bean. This is so not what I want in a dessert.
I actually can't think of anything else with this texture in Japanese food. Natto has a differently disgusting texture but there, the flavor is also horrific.
On the other hand the Japanese are great at making their own unique versions of Western desserts (especially anything green tea flavored) so it's not like you have to go dessertless. It's just the more traditional sweets that are the problem.
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I just don't get natto. It seems like the worst food concept in the world, ever. Who would eat this? Was there some sort of famine in Japan that left people dependent on fermented soybeans for a while? Why would you ever eat natto if there was another food option?
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Well, I guess you could say the same thing about cheese and yogurt being disgusting concepts if you think too hard about it. But on the other hand, seriously, they really don't taste so much like vomit.
Also unlike natto they can be made into tasty desserts!
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Well, I guess you could say the same thing about cheese and yogurt being disgusting concepts if you think too hard about it. But on the other hand, seriously, they really don't taste so much like vomit.
Well, yeah, my disgust with natto is not that it is made using fermentation, it's that it possesses no trait other than vileness. I mean, ew.
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Natto does not sound pleasant. I love miso and other fermented soybean products, but Steve's blog entry made me swear off Natto forever. Jeezus.
I love anko, or red bean paste/jam. It is so good. I have never had a problem with its texture. As I probably mentioned before, they sell it by the can here, but it's not very satisfying to eat that way.
And yes, AD, it is a soft mochi rice cake surrounding a lump of red bean paste. So delicious. Please send me some (they are in the chilled section at the grocer's). I will totally PayPal you some money. It is so weird how they get it so perfectly smooth and round! It is a seamless, perfect round mochi cake that is somehow mysteriously filled with anko.
Since I tried and FAILED so valiantly to make daifuku, I have NO FREAKIN' CLUE how on earth they get them so perfect and uniform. Today I tried to get the grocery stores here to order some for me, and they wouldn't. Fuckers.
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Natto is the nasty.
Red bean paste - is that the same as Azuki beans? I get those with ice cream and shave ice here all the time. I love them.
I'll see what I cand find in a japanese bakery for you. I don't think they need to be chilled. I've just seen them in bakery boxes.
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Natto is the nasty.
No, cuitlacoche (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000344.php) is the nasty.
No wait, Bun Dae Ki (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000398.php) is the nasty.
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No, cuitlacoche (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000344.php) is the nasty.
No wait, Bun Dae Ki (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000398.php) is the nasty.
Holy shit, that guy's blog makes me cry. In horror. I had no idea that such foul things existed. I mean, my worldview and personal experience tells me that crazy shit exists, but I've never seen it laid out and explored so relentlessly before. A brave man, indeed. Yikes! I've got the heebie-jeebies now. ew. I'm itchy and freaked out, even more so than when my younger sister showed me her welts from the bedbug bites! Someone get me some fuckin' DDT! :(
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The pickled pork rinds entry made me laugh until I cried a little the first time I read it. It's also less horrifying than the two I linked above.
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No wait, Bun Dae Ki (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000398.php) is the nasty.
Strikes me that they're all just things we have an abundance of that no one can think of anything better to do with than sell.
"We have all these silkworms, but we don't need the moths... I know, we can sell them to gullible, drunk fuckers!"
"Hmmm, this corn's gone a bit nasty and rancid, and looks kind of like a decaying eyeball, what can we do with a field full of this shit... I know..."
I wonder if that one goes back as far as natto, which seems to be a fairly aged idea. Hell, I would add tofu to that list, let alone fermented soy beans. And you can at least take from it the fact that without fermentation they're really not a good idea anyway (what with the hormones and all). Necessity - I hope so - at least that's some kind of excuse for eating a bowl of jizzy beans.
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No, cuitlacoche (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000344.php) is the nasty.
Sweet mother of mercy, the contents of that can of cuitlacoche look exactly like the spoiled (expired?) paint I found in a few cans of scene paint back in high school when I was a theatre techie. That rotten, festering mess introduced me to a whole new world of olfactory horror.
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According to the Iron Chef episode natto is considered a health food. So it's something people agree is unpleasant to eat but apparently is good for you so some people suck it up and eat it anyway.
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According to the Iron Chef episode natto is considered a health food. So it's something people agree is unpleasant to eat but apparently is good for you so some people suck it up and eat it anyway.
Natto for example contains a compound Pyrazine, which not only gives natto its distinct smell, but also reduces the likelihood of blood clotting. It also contains a serine protease type enzyme called nattokinase[1] which may also reduce blood clotting both by direct fibrinolysis of clots, and inhibition of the plasma protein plasminogen activator inhibitor 1. This may help to avoid thrombosis, as for example in heart attacks, pulmonary embolism, or strokes.
Plus lots of Vitamin K apparently.
And as mentioned, unfermented soy beans should never be given to children, as they either induce, or contain larger quantities of oestrogen, which isn't so good. So all this soy milk is a bad thing. Also it's considered torture under the geneve convention!
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Nattokinase is my new favorite enzyme. This is all.
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Fuck yes.
I am eating a daifuku RIGHT NOW. It is the size of a silver dollar. I have five more, motherfuckers. There is a rad grocery not too far from here that has tons of 'em.
God damn it's good to be back in civilization.
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I know it's tempting, but now look what you've done. People are going to think Queue's back.
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Vist our flickr group, and you'll see that he is. Also, hobot.
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Vist our flickr group, and you'll see that he is. Also, hobot.
It's Q, he's back. In Flickr form.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Ustilago_maydis_de_2.jpg)
I wonder what the thought process is that goes from "What the hell happened to my corn crop" to "Mmmm, yummy!"
It probably is influenced by starvation.
(Huitlacoche, btw)
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Vist our flickr group, and you'll see that he is. Also, hobot.
I can't do that, Dave.
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Great, now I have to go read Steve Don't Eat It again. Thanks a lot Jaydub.
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No, cuitlacoche (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000344.php) is the nasty.
No wait, Bun Dae Ki (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000398.php) is the nasty.
Balut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut) is the nasty. And due to social pressure, I had to eat TWO of them.
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That is the grossest thing I have ever seen.
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Bad Dawg, you can't not tell us the rest of that story!
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Man, that's just awful. I guess that hardcore meatatarians don't bat an eye at boiling an embryo in its shell. YUCK.
Anyway, I'm gonna think good thoughts. Mmm, daifuku. Rice cake with adzuki bean jam. Delicious.
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i kind of want to eat a 1000-year egg.
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Bad Dawg, you can't not tell us the rest of that story!
It's not that exciting. You see, there are many, many, many Filipinos here in Hawaii and I had the good fortune to be the boss of a group of them. And, being culturally and cuisine-adventurous, and being polite (that is, not rejecting out-of-hand something I haven't tried that isn't obviously a health hazard or death-accelerator) I sat down with several of these fine, salt-of-the-earth types to try the Balut.
First off, it looks just as bad as you imagine. The kicker, though, is that there are those who let the thing develop a whole lot further - til it's got feathers and a beak - and then cook it and eat it. Thankfully, the balut I ate was generally a well along egg but still more egg that anything else. It did have substance, structure and texture that was obviously and alarmingly not egg-like.
So you carefully crack open the top, throw in a little salt and vinegar or hot sauce, and drink the liquid from the egg. Then you suck out the, um, contents of the egg and eat them in one bite or so.
Given the right social situation, I would eat them again but I wouldn't seek them out for the flavor. This is clearly a drinking man's food and I was at work when I ate them, so pre- or post-eating palate cleansing and more's the pity, too.
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A can for your Bourdain-like culinary fortitude.
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I was thinking Andrew Zimmern. I would love to travel with that guy.
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Oh, AD... good for you. I couldn't... just the idea of... just... no.
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my grandfather was telling me about how in Chile, people love to eat Ostrich eggs. He then commented that one of his friends preferred it when they were... he then got into a short discussion with my mom in spanish, at the end of which he said that the correct word in English was "fertilized." More meat, he said.
EW.
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I was thinking Andrew Zimmern. I would love to travel with that guy.
Last night he was eating a tarantula. (In New Jersey - disappointingly little exotic travel involved.) I will eat a lot of stuff that other people think is gross, but I draw the line at anything that is still hairy, which this appeared to be. Or anything, like in your description, that still has the feathers on it, no matter how little. Food should be naked, please.
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my grandfather was telling me about how in Chile, people love to eat Ostrich eggs. He then commented that one of his friends preferred it when they were... he then got into a short discussion with my mom in spanish, at the end of which he said that the correct word in English was "fertilized." More meat, he said.
EW.
I'm picturing a young Inev as played by Phillipe, and a Chilean grandfather as played by Liebot, and Inev is all covering his mouth with his flippers and hell of saying "Noooo!"
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I wish it had been like that.
Man, liebot could work some totally new rough chuckles if sometimes he had to ask someone what the proper english word was... it adds so much suspense.
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I ate a Daifuku yesterday. I was not initially prepared for the texture. It was pretty rad. Mine was red, and covered in flour. The ladyfriend's was black and covered in black sesame seeds.
I think it is important to mention that the only reason I ate the daifuku was because it was mentioned here.
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I ate a Daifuku yesterday. I was not initially prepared for the texture. It was pretty rad. Mine was red, and covered in flour. The ladyfriend's was black and covered in black sesame seeds.
I think it is important to mention that the only reason I ate the daifuku was because it was mentioned here.
Yay!!! I'm so glad you liked it. I fuck*ng love daifuku. They're so delicious. They also make some that have an entire CUNT inside instead of the azuku jam.
DAMMIT, Mi-wan just drank out of my water glass!!! :( I hate it when they do that. Thanks, dude, I really wanted to go downstairs and get a new glass.
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You don't let your cats drink out of your glass?
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Seriously, WTF? I drink behind my cat all the time. And he licks his ass. And I think he only does it because HE CAN.
And also you can get mochi everywhere here, and near as I can tell, Daifuku is a ball of mochi with something inside. In the freezer section of all the stores, they sell ice cream mochi, a ball of mochi with chocolate, vanilla or coffee ice cream inside.
At 7-11, you can pick up variety packs of mochi with different colors, fillings and on top. You used to be able to get coconut mochi mocha bars at Starbucks here but now they don't. I can buy sacks of Mochi Flour and send them out if anyone wants to try making some Daifuku.
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My cats won't let me go to the bathroom by myself. They watch me every time, because they think it's so fuck*ng funny that I have to use toilet paper.
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I finallyy gave up on trying to keep the cat hair out of my food. Now I just give one of them a few licks before every meal just to get it out of the way.
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I once ate something resembling this daifuku, I think it had some kind of white bean filling flavored with rose water or something (I don't know, it tasted kind of flowery?). I think purple yams would be good for this sort of thing.
Also, being Filipino, I find people's varying reactions to foods like balut and dinuguan somewhat amusing.
I might have to write stuff about non-horrible Filipino desserts later (I can do that right? It's allowed?)
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I finallyy gave up on trying to keep the cat hair out of my food. Now I just give one of them a few licks before every meal just to get it out of the way.
I hate having cat hair everywhere. It's the worst when white cat fuzz gets lodged in my eyes. That shit hurts like a bitch, and no matter now much I irrigate my eyes, it seems to stay in there. Ugh. Just the thought of it makes me crazy. Needless to say I vacuum a LOT.
RE: Drinking after cats. I dunno, I have probably inadvertently drank after one of the little boys slurped out of my water glass with their ass-licking tongues. They love the ice cubes. I try to protect my water glass but sometimes I catch them doing it and then I just get totally grossed out. Also, I do not share food with them. Having them lick off my ice cream cone would be cute, but disgusting. my little dudes eat only cat food. I don't feed them people food.
Lately I have been shutting the bathroom door. I can't peruse the latest issue of Vogue with Milan AND Lenny rubbing against my legs and demanding petties. I guess they figure, "Hey! Captive audience! Give us petties, mom!"
I once ate something resembling this daifuku, I think it had some kind of white bean filling flavored with rose water or something (I don't know, it tasted kind of flowery?). I think purple yams would be good for this sort of thing.
Also, being Filipino, I find people's varying reactions to foods like balut and dinuguan somewhat amusing.
I might have to write stuff about non-horrible Filipino desserts later (I can do that right? It's allowed?)
That's one of the things I loved about my community in AK. We had a huge Filipino community there, and god damn could the folks that I worked with COOK AWESOME FOOD. Lumpia is so grelicious. Anyway, I always admired the purple yam ice cream at the grocery store, and one of these days I'll have to find a Filipino market in Denver and buy some.
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Andrew Zimmern was eating balut on TV last night. Actually the concept didn't seem that gross to me - just a little chicken and hard boiled egg, when it comes right down to it - but he made it seem like it was pretty disgusting. And when he thinks something is gross you have to worry.
I don't think I've ever had Filipino desserts. Do tell.
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my cats do not get to eat anything which is not in their little bowls. I would not share food with them.
Also: my dog. Because he has never learned not to beg, despite the fact that we never give him anything. he does not realize that begging gives us a reason not to give him food.
basically my pets act like we are slowly starving them to death, though.
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Oh dear god. My best and oldest friend is Filipino, and I have eaten many a delicious meal, but never a really good desert. I suppose I've tried one too many a baked good that I thought was a desert but turned out to have pork in it. As my bestfriend always tells me "we're Filipino - there's pork in it." And pork is fine, but not when you're expecting custard. Occasionally her Lola would slip me cookies she'd brought back from the Philippines that were tasty though... but I was always worried I'd find a piece of pork. I'm not kidding. Filipino food is so good it makes me mad. Food's not allowed to have that much variety and flavor. It's not allowed!
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It's true, Filipinos have never seemed to consider putting anything other than pork (and, for some reason, raisins) in their empanadas. You'd think there'd be sweeter alternatives what with all the yams and fruit trees that are just growing in every other backyard.
There's also a variety of hopia (think mooncake) called hopia baboy which I always thought was strange because there didn't seem to be any hint of pork meat in it (baboy refers to pigs in both their live and butchered-and-ready-to-eat states). It wasn't until recently that I learned that the recipe involves candied (!) pork backfat. I don't think other types of hopia make use of animal-based fats though, at least I hope not. I am quite partial to the ube (purple yam) variety.
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It wasn't until recently that I learned that the recipe involves candied (!) pork backfat.
Here's where your $7500 ought to go - right into candied pork backfat.
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Seriously, WTF? I drink behind my cat all the time. And he licks his ass. And I think he only does it because HE CAN.
And also you can get mochi everywhere here, and near as I can tell, Daifuku is a ball of mochi with something inside. In the freezer section of all the stores, they sell ice cream mochi, a ball of mochi with chocolate, vanilla or coffee ice cream inside.
At 7-11, you can pick up variety packs of mochi with different colors, fillings and on top. You used to be able to get coconut mochi mocha bars at Starbucks here but now they don't. I can buy sacks of Mochi Flour and send them out if anyone wants to try making some Daifuku.
Damn, I want to come to Hawaii. That sounds delicious.
Also... I don't know what kind of crazy kitchen hoodoo skills you have...but I CANNOT abide trying to make mochi at home. It's impossible! It's this hellacious, Sisyphean task that is like trying to herd glue. I ended up with a disappointingly lumpy daifuku and threw it away out of rage. The smooth, perfectly encapsulated daifuku that get churned out by the factory are perfect and damn near impossible for the otaku home chef to replicate.
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otaku home chef
for some reason I am imagining you in such as a Mobile Suit Gundam t-shirt trying to cook Japanese foods. Maybe you try to make a mochi-mecha or something.
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Ladyfriend and I just made a god damned Red Curry, with some mother hossin' mochi-rice.
She also made a bad assed Tom-Yum soup. This is only related because of the mochi-rice.
-Edit: Sorry sir, I had been getting a tad familiar. I will see to it that this does not occur in the future.-
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I haven't closed a crapper door in years because it's more distracting/annoying to watch a little paw slide under the door and then curl up, grab the bottom edge of the door and yank the living shit outta it than it is to have an audience.
My dog is considerate about this. She'll lie down on the floor right outside the door. My 5-year old, on the other hand, appears to channel her inner cat. Lips pressed between the floor and door, she'll go on about "Why can't I come in?" and "What are you doing?". Little fingers appear and grab the door - furious cackling ensues. When kindergarten starts, I'm expecting calls from the principal.
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It's true, Filipinos have never seemed to consider putting anything other than pork (and, for some reason, raisins) in their empanadas. You'd think there'd be sweeter alternatives what with all the yams and fruit trees that are just growing in every other backyard.
There's also a variety of hopia (think mooncake) called hopia baboy which I always thought was strange because there didn't seem to be any hint of pork meat in it (baboy refers to pigs in both their live and butchered-and-ready-to-eat states). It wasn't until recently that I learned that the recipe involves candied (!) pork backfat. I don't think other types of hopia make use of animal-based fats though, at least I hope not. I am quite partial to the ube (purple yam) variety.
We have this chain of Filipino take-outs called "Golden Coin" here and I love the food. I think I tried the dinaguan - is that the pork in pigs blood? Noting terribly horrible about it. I haven't had Hopia I don't think but I did have this rice-cake type thing that was super sweet and good, but my Filipino friend never used a word for it and kept referring to it as his 'native cake'.
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We have this chain of Filipino take-outs called "Golden Coin" here and I love the food. I think I tried the dinaguan - is that the pork in pigs blood? Noting terribly horrible about it. I haven't had Hopia I don't think but I did have this rice-cake type thing that was super sweet and good, but my Filipino friend never used a word for it and kept referring to it as his 'native cake'.
Heh heh, 'native cake'.
It might have been a cassava cake or palitaw which is basically the Filipino equivalent of mochi. What did it look like?
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Heh heh, 'native cake'.
It might have been a cassava cake or palitaw which is basically the Filipino equivalent of mochi. What did it look like?
I have had cassava cake many a time. It's got a flan-like texture, except its primary ingredient is starch and not eggs.
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Heh heh, 'native cake'.
It might have been a cassava cake or palitaw which is basically the Filipino equivalent of mochi. What did it look like?
Rolando was a sixty-ish fellow who spoke OK English but in a broken way. The cake looked like what would happen of you pressed a lot of rice together in a pan. It was sugary and ricy.
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The cake looked like what would happen of you pressed a lot of rice together in a pan. It was sugary and ricy.
I'm thinking it was either bibingka or biko. Biko seems more likely though, since that's always made with whole rice grains.
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My dog is considerate about this. She'll lie down on the floor right outside the door. My 5-year old, on the other hand, appears to channel her inner cat. Lips pressed between the floor and door, she'll go on about "Why can't I come in?" and "What are you doing?". Little fingers appear and grab the door - furious cackling ensues. When kindergarten starts, I'm expecting calls from the principal.
Tiny can.
I hate having cat hair everywhere. It's the worst when white cat fuzz gets lodged in my eyes. That shit hurts like a bitch, and no matter now much I irrigate my eyes, it seems to stay in there. Ugh. Just the thought of it makes me crazy. Needless to say I vacuum a LOT.
I figured out why I was suddenly having such a huge problem with allergies over the past couple of days. My roommate's parents dropped by on Wednesday to visit and stay overnight. They brought their little dog. My boys stay locked in my room (it's far larger than my apartment in Alaska...the bedroom is quite large with attached bathroom and study so Lenny can run laps through all three rooms), but they knew another quadruped was in the house.
Today I could hardly stand to be upstairs. I finally vacuumed to get as much dog dander out of the house as possible. It has helped immensely.