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Eating dogs, cats, horses, etc.
Hmm, last time I was in Korea everyone told me that boshintang was something people ate mostly in the _summer_. They need to get their stories straight, or else just admit that they eat it because they like it! But frankly I was not impressed with the flavor.
What's the most recent "new" food item you tried?
Hey, me too! Bought some in a Turkish dried fruit and nut shop in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, because they looked so funny.
What's the most recent "new" food item you tried?
I had a complete wedge of mimolette leftover from our Christmas Eve cheese platter. I'd always dismissed it as relatively uninteresting compared to other French cheeses (and apparently so did everyone else at the dinner). The cheese itself is pretty tasty, chewy and nutty. But a little bit of research and it turns out that the strange powdery gray crust consists of the excrement and carcasses of cheese mites! And also plenty of live ones. It's not as extreme as Milbenkäse or that Corsican/Sardinian stuff, but still surprising.
Paris guide?
"Gourmet Paris" (Emmanuel Rubin) is a nice idea: You think of what you want to eat (mousse au chocolat, cassoulet, bouillabaisse, couscous, French fries ...) and the guide tells you the best places in Paris to get it. Mostly restaurants, but also pâtisseries, markets, and specialty shops. The problem is, it's from 2002 (there may be an udpated French edition by the same author).
http://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Paris-What-Where-Dish/dp/2080106449/sr=1-1/qid=1168622649/ref=sr_1_1/104-7133828-5470331?ie=UTF8&s=books
How do you IN-N-OUT?
You guys know about the bible references on all their cups and burger wrappers? None of them mentions burgers or milkshakes, strangely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger#Bible_references
Wikipedia also has a much more extensive discussion of the "secret" menu.
chopsticks as cooking utensils
Those do sound useful, but they count as cheating in this thread! If I only made toast, I wouldn't need any tools. My problem is, I'm more likely to shove leftover falafels and fried cheese etc. in there, gets a little messy...
need translation help on chinese measurements
According my dictionary (Oxford):
钱 = 5 grams
两 = 50 grams
斤 = 500 grams
These are traditional units, though, so their values have changed over time. E.g., the expression 半斤八两 (= "six of one, half a dozen of the other") suggests that 1 斤 was 16 两 at some point in history... (sounds like pounds and ounces)
Does anyone boil their cafe the old fashioned way?
Friends of mine gave me some Toraja coffee from Sulawesi, and I think they said that it should be prepared like that (boiled in a pot of water on the stove). Sounds similar to the Filipino Barako mentioned above. I will try it one of these days, it's supposed to be very good.
Tokyo Fish market tour
I went there not terribly early, around 8am, and it was still pretty busy. Lots of interesting things to take photos of! But be careful, it's narrow and crowded and slippery and there are giant frozen fish whizzing around in every direction! It's not really a place for tourists, but they won't kick you out, either. There is also a big vegetable market that is worth a look.
For afterwards, there are some very popular sushi restaurants right outside the fish market, but you will have to wait in line with lots of other tourists. I would suggest heading to the main, "retail" part of the market (back towards the center of town) where you might actually find something to buy, and a wider selection of food.
chopsticks as cooking utensils
definitely, for fishing around in the deep fryer, but much more often for digging things out of the toaster that probably should not have gone in there in the first place. (don't really want to stick a metal fork into the toaster...)
