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On a recent flight to Norway there was an article about surstromming and it referred to a Greenland food (I hesitate to call it a delicacy) whereby auk are wrapped in seal skin and buried. After some time they are retrieved, unwrapped, the heads twisted off, and the liquified insides sucked out. So, Wiggles, how does that appeal?
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^^^^^ I'd probably give it a shot, at least once. I really do like that kind of stinky stuff. Admittedly, it's sometimes nice to have a cracker or something salty with it. DekeThornton posted:Is lutfisk really that stinky though? Now it might be that I'm fairly used to the smell, so I don't really register it as stinky, but what I Always found off putting about it when I was a Child, Before I learned to like it was the texture. Lots of people think it's stinky. I like it, though. Makes me think of Christmas.
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Sep 4, 2014 21:16
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LoonShia posted:What about surstromming? Surströmmning tastes surprisingly mild, but the aroma is pretty rank. Stinky tofu is about the same thing, it's surprisingly rounded and mild. And so good at eleven o'clock in the night munched out from underneath a little mountain of chili jam and fresh cilantro, fresh out of the deep fryer, in a little cardboard plate, with a big 2 pint bottle of cold beer, while your daughter finally sleeps on your lap.
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Sep 4, 2014 23:01
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Sjurygg posted:Surströmmning tastes surprisingly mild, but the aroma is pretty rank. I kinda get the bad stink but good taste thing. I enjoy smelly cheeses which smell rank but taste completely different to how they smell.
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Sep 4, 2014 23:20
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Look what I made!  It's a girl, before you start congratulating me on the handsome sideburns.
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Sep 5, 2014 00:11
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Sweet, sweet. What was the price per pound?
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Sep 5, 2014 00:17
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What's the going rate for one hour of sitting down while a woman screams nearby?
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Sep 5, 2014 00:39
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Scientastic posted:What's the going rate for one hour of sitting down while a woman screams nearby? It depends on if you're in Germany or Japan.
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Sep 5, 2014 00:42
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FishBulb posted:It depends on if you're in Germany or Japan. I had no idea Pr0k's mum was so cosmopolitan
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Sep 5, 2014 00:42
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Scientastic eat the placenta.
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Sep 5, 2014 00:55
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Mazel tov!
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Sep 5, 2014 01:41
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I am in Seoul. Anywhere specific I should go to eat? Down for mostly anything except sannakji. 
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Sep 5, 2014 02:46
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AllTerrineVehicle posted:I am in Seoul. Anywhere specific I should go to eat? Down for mostly anything except sannakji. Do you want weird, traditional, fusion? KoreaMegathread is a good source too.
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Sep 5, 2014 02:53
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DontAskKant posted:Do you want weird, traditional, fusion? Depends on how weird but probably any/all of those
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Sep 5, 2014 03:12
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Scientastic posted:Look what I made!  Good work.
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Sep 5, 2014 03:32
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AllTerrineVehicle posted:I am in Seoul. Anywhere specific I should go to eat? Down for mostly anything except sannakji. Seek out Chinese restaurants. Korea has the best, most authentic Chinese food outside of China.
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Sep 5, 2014 04:01
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fart simpson posted:Seek out Chinese restaurants. Korea has the best, most authentic Chinese food outside of China. All the best chinese places I know around here are run by koreans
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Sep 5, 2014 04:25
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Same with donut shops.
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Sep 5, 2014 04:39
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fart simpson posted:Seek out Chinese restaurants. Korea has the best, most authentic Chinese food outside of China. Don't really do this though, I'm trolling you. Chinese food in Korea is very bad.
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Sep 5, 2014 04:41
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Casu Marzu posted:All the best chinese places I know around here are run by koreans Good Thai restaurants always seem to be run by tiny ancient Thai ladies.
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Sep 5, 2014 04:43
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I have a new Chinese coworker that just got back from living in Korea for 10 years. His summary of Korea was: "Koreans can't cook. Everything is either mixed with rice or boiled. It's impossible for Koreans to cook Chinese food, but it's easy for Chinese to cook Korean food."
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AllTerrineVehicle posted:Depends on how weird but probably any/all of those Are you in Seoul for a long time or short? Either way post in the Korea thread to get the goon Google maps and/or join chat. Can you read or speak any Korean? This will determine how much effort i have to put into suggestions. Kaesong mandu in Insadong is good, Story of the Blue Star is good for drinking food and makgeolli. There are lots of meat buffets, myeongdong gyoja is your knife cut noodle place get the dumplings and extra kimchi too. My favorite kimchi bat a restaurant. Find the pigs feet, jokbal and eat those. There's of course dog, turtle, black chicken, hongeo (that fermented skate I was lamenting). Tons of dried squid and fish everywhere. The area around wangsimni and sindang is famous for gopchang (pig intestine) and sindang is famous for tteokbokki (rice cakes in a spicy sorta sweet chili sauce). Don't know any great rib places off the top of my head. The dalkgalbi places (a braised chicken and vegetables) and jjimdalk (chicken braised in soy sauce) are all fine at chains. *famous doesn't actually mean much for westerners here usually. So don't think of it as a must see. Also, Korean food is not solo dining friendly for most things. If I place says you can't eat there alone, insist that your okay with it (assuming you know that there are single servings). If the still won't serve you find another place serving the same drat thing and screw them. Again, check the Korea megathread in TT. ask for other suggestions and see if you can get dining buddies.
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Sep 5, 2014 05:26
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fart simpson posted:Don't really do this though, I'm trolling you. Chinese food in Korea is very bad. was gonna say. There are a few chinese restaurants around here run by koreans and they are hilariously bad. like, worse than panda express bad.
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Sep 5, 2014 06:45
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DontAskKant posted:Are you in Seoul for a long time or short? We're here for four more days. Don't read or speak Korean at all haha. Thanks for the info! Also I have no idea where this Korea megathread is because I'm a dumb.
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Sep 5, 2014 07:06
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Scientastic posted:Look what I made!  Well done! I mean, you did a lot of work to get that. And congratulations on your virility!
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Sep 5, 2014 08:11
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edit : nvm. congrats on baby! ps re: mushroom chats, pfifferlings/chanterelles rule. maybe best mushroom.
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Sep 5, 2014 11:26
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Scientastic posted:Look what I made! Looks nothing like your avatar, are you sure you're the father?
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Sep 5, 2014 14:51
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Scientastic posted:Look what I made! Congratulations! I'm counting the days myself, she's set for 3 weeks from now, so it could be any time. (I'm fairly sure that if there is a Hell it's modeled after stores with baby equipment)
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Congrats on the little one! She's adorable. Most babies are not. I can't really cotton on to the sickening sugar binge at breakfast. It really churns my stomach. But then, to be fair, I don't like sweet all that much to begin with. Breakfast is dosa, coconut chatni, sambhar, and spicy mango pickle. Sometimes it's mushy rice with rasam. Or pongal. Idli can gently caress right off, but I can understand breakfasting on it. poo poo's bland as hell. No thanks. Dhokla is a lovely breakfast, as long as you don't ask a gujju to make it, because they drown it in sugar. You've got mustard seed, red chiles, and loving sugar in. Ew. Adai is lovely, but a bit on the hearty side for breakfast. With regards to American breakfast, I am fond of those little crispy potato thingies. Home fries? Not the hashed browns. Those are too mushy, and not enough crispy. But home fries, I can eat all day (and have). When I ate eggs, I could eat a frittata or a quiche or something, but fried eggs with runny yolks kind of freaked me out. Something about that smell early in the morning.  Dim sum is love. There's a restaurant in Chinatown called Buddha Bodai that does really good vegetarian dim sum on the weekends for brunch times (like 10 - 4 pm or so). One of my omnivore friends took me there, because he'd been a few times and fell in love with the food. The dishes that have eggs in are clearly indicated, so you can avoid those if you want. Hell, sometimes a bowl of miso soup with some mushrooms or tofu or cabbage is quite nice too. When I was a kid, and saw my friends eating a bowl of sugary cereal for breakfast I was horrified. Where's the hot spicy stuff? Where's the coconut? What the hell, how can you stomach something that sweet at any hour of the day? Or pancakes. You're literally eating cake for breakfast. With sugar syrup (corn syrup?) poured on top, because you're not going to convince me that the "pancake syrup" ever had even a nodding acquaintance with a maple tree. Puppy can do steel cut oats in the morning, but I find them a bit challenging. Grits, however, are lovely. My BFF's mum buys this stone ground grits from this fancy store somewhere (a pound of the stuff runs about $6), and makes grits from them. Very nice. I'm also down with a really crusty sourdough, fried in olive oil, and topped with sliced tomato and ground black pepper (and basil, if I can track some down). There was a fresh noodle place in Philly that did a vegetarian pho (we just asked them to leave off the egg) which was REALLY good after that 1 1/2 hour bus ride down there at 10:30 in the morning. That, with endless cups of jasmine tea was heaven. Oh god, I have become a picky eater. :O
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dino. posted:Oh god, I have become a picky eater. :O Well, you are vegetarian. That leaves half of all available food off the table right there.  And yes, "pancake syrup" really is just basically brown corn syrup. There is some flavoring added to it, but I wouldn't call it Maple. As far as starting every morning off with a bowl of sugary cereal, it's not that weird if you spent most of your life doing it. And yeah, those little chunks of seasoned potatoes are home fries (or Potatoes O'Brien if you add peppers and onions). Some places might also call them breakfast potatoes or skillet potatoes.
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CzarChasm posted:Well, you are vegetarian. That leaves half of all available food off the table right there. Vegan. that is the most meta of picky eaterisms for sure tho
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CzarChasm posted:Well, you are vegetarian. That leaves half of all available food off the table right there. Also he's vegan. That's even pickier than vegetarian.
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GrAviTy84 posted:Vegan. Fruitarians are even worse. They only eat those parts of a plant that fall off.
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Scientastic posted:Look what I made!  Different sized burners, broiler at the top of the oven, bread proofing setting. All I wanted within my price range (which apparently also included a dishwasher I'd not heard about until we got to the store). But there's one thing:  What the gently caress America? Are chicken nuggets so ubiquitous that brand new ovens need a setting just for them? Pizza, I can understand, but Chicken Nuggets?
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Sep 5, 2014 23:52
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Finally, a bread-proof oven.
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Sep 5, 2014 23:59
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bartolimu posted:It's something dino. should be familiar with: cardamom. That's what they use to fake maple flavor for those horrible syrups. Waste of potential in my opinion. Are you sure? I thought they used fenugreek seeds.
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:Are you sure? I thought they used fenugreek seeds. Yes. Fenugreek. That's what I said, before I typed it wrong. This is what a 4:1 work hours:sleep hours ratio does to me.
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Holy poo poo a chicken nugget button? I've seen that kind of thing on microwaves but never an oven. That's just sad. I bet you could wipe the writing off with acetone or something. Then stencil on something awesome, like roast ortolan bunting.
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bartolimu posted:Yes. Fenugreek. That's what I said, before I typed it wrong. Now I want cardamom syrup on pancakes. Thanks for the idea.
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:Now I want cardamom syrup on pancakes. Thanks for the idea. Ginger cardamom simple syrup is rather easy to make and extremely delicious.
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