A new Asian food adventure
The last time I went to an Asian market and picked up some really random groceries, I wound up ingesting horse piss.
No preserved duck eggs this time, but here's my latest haul:
Experiment #1: A rather disturbingly bright yellow drink made of "cane" (that's "sugar" to the rest of us, I assume) and something called imperatae. When asked what it tasted like, I was forced to reply, "I have no idea." That's why they pay me the big bucks. Anyway, it didn't taste good. I later learned that this is because it's medicine. For, among other things, urinary infections. Stick to cranberry juice.
Experiment #2: A mixed package of Vietnamese (?) dessert blobs, one white, one black, and two green. Two were dusted with coconut. All, so far, contain mung bean paste. Mmm. Mung bean. The ingredients list claims sweet rice in there somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Overall consensus: not enough mung bean, too much glutinous flour.
Total experiment cost: $1.98.
The last time I went to an Asian market and picked up some really random groceries, I wound up ingesting horse piss.
No preserved duck eggs this time, but here's my latest haul:
Experiment #1: A rather disturbingly bright yellow drink made of "cane" (that's "sugar" to the rest of us, I assume) and something called imperatae. When asked what it tasted like, I was forced to reply, "I have no idea." That's why they pay me the big bucks. Anyway, it didn't taste good. I later learned that this is because it's medicine. For, among other things, urinary infections. Stick to cranberry juice.
Experiment #2: A mixed package of Vietnamese (?) dessert blobs, one white, one black, and two green. Two were dusted with coconut. All, so far, contain mung bean paste. Mmm. Mung bean. The ingredients list claims sweet rice in there somewhere, but I'm not sure where. Overall consensus: not enough mung bean, too much glutinous flour.
Total experiment cost: $1.98.
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