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The Macaroni
Dec 20, 2002
...it does nothing.
Japanese hard candy is the best in the world. Their other treats...yeah, pretty much what you said about the ancient arts of the East*. At least the Japanese sweets like dango look pretty. Chinese Moon Cakes look like they taste.

* Recognizing that Southeast Asia has some awe inspiring desserts.

Edit snipe: Including this fabulous Thai custard.

The Macaroni fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Feb 27, 2012

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Kenning
Jan 11, 2009

I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.



There's this fancy Japanese sweets boutique in San Francisco right off Market that had some delicious and beautiful stuff in it. My favorite was this little yuzu jelly, almost entirely because of the description, which claimed that "The flavor of yuzu was used unsparing to make these treats." It was such a grand statement for such a little jelly :3:

Squashy Nipples
Aug 18, 2007

When I was in Japan, several times I was surprised to bite into what I thought was a chocolate-filled pastry, only to find that funky sweet-bean paste. The only decent Japanese desert is green-tea flavored soft serve.

Ok, business travelers: if I have to choose between a Homewood Suites and a Holiday Inn, I should pick Homewood, right?

Oh, and I got a new job.

Phummus
Aug 4, 2006

If I get ten spare bucks, it's going for a 30-pack of Schlitz.

Squashy Nipples posted:

When I was in Japan, several times I was surprised to bite into what I thought was a chocolate-filled pastry, only to find that funky sweet-bean paste. The only decent Japanese desert is green-tea flavored soft serve.

Ok, business travelers: if I have to choose between a Homewood Suites and a Holiday Inn, I should pick Homewood, right?

Oh, and I got a new job.

Homewood Suites definitely. I mean you have Home...so its bound to be homey. You have wood, which means easy access to whores, and you have Suites, which means you can keep the hooker gagged and bound in a different room while you're masturbating to the teletubbies.

Its all in the name, man.

Mr. Wiggles
Dec 1, 2003

We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.
I've always been partial to the Holidae Inn.

Jay Carney
Mar 23, 2007

If you do that you will die on the toilet.
Does anyone have any good food suggestions for Bangor Maine? Because the yelp page for this town makes me cackle endlessly with laughter.

GrAviTy84
Nov 25, 2004

I like Asian desserts :(

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

GrAviTy84 posted:

I like Asian desserts :(

Does your fiancée know about Ms. Desserts?

GrAviTy84
Nov 25, 2004

mediaphage posted:

Does your fiancée know about Ms. Desserts?

:golfclap: well played

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

Squashy Nipples posted:

When I was in Japan, several times I was surprised to bite into what I thought was a chocolate-filled pastry, only to find that funky sweet-bean paste. The only decent Japanese desert is green-tea flavored soft serve.

Ok, business travelers: if I have to choose between a Homewood Suites and a Holiday Inn, I should pick Homewood, right?

Oh, and I got a new job.
New job? :tipshat: Do tell.

Homewood, obvs. It's got suite in the title so it's bound to be classy, plus it's a business trip, which rules Holiday Inn out.

Jay Carney
Mar 23, 2007

If you do that you will die on the toilet.
I find that in the boonies, the classier sounding the hotel, the more likely it is to charge by the hour and have sheets that sound like rice krispies when you sit on them.

Holiday Inns aren't too bad, and the most important thing is consolidating your hotel points in a single chain.

edit: Just saw it is a Hilton chain, go for that.

Jay Carney fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Feb 28, 2012

bongwizzard
May 19, 2005

Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"
Grimey Drawer

Halalelujah posted:

I find that in the boonies, the classier sounding the hotel, the more likely it is to charge by the hour and have sheets that sound like rice krispies when you sit on them.

Holiday Inns aren't too bad, and the most important thing is consolidating your hotel points in a single chain.

edit: Just saw it is a Hilton chain, go for that.

Even though I travel pretty often and used to travel every weekend, I have never signed up for Hotel/Airline points and poo poo.

It is a perfect marriage of dumb and lazy.

Kenning
Jan 11, 2009

I really want to post goatse. Instead I only have these🍄.



Squashy Nipples posted:

When I was in Japan, several times I was surprised to bite into what I thought was a chocolate-filled pastry, only to find that funky sweet-bean paste. The only decent Japanese desert is green-tea flavored soft serve.

Ok, business travelers: if I have to choose between a Homewood Suites and a Holiday Inn, I should pick Homewood, right?

Oh, and I got a new job.

You take that back about red bean paste! That poo poo is incredible.

wafflesnsegways
Jan 12, 2008
And that's why I was forced to surgically attach your hands to your face.
Red bean paste is indeed the best. I think it could easily make the leap to becoming popular in America, too. It's sweet and hearty and flavorful and really not weird at all. Put it in everything.

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through

wafflesnsegways posted:

Red bean paste is indeed the best. I think it could easily make the leap to becoming popular in America, too. It's sweet and hearty and flavorful and really not weird at all. Put it in everything.

it's no worse than the stuff inside of Fig Newtons (which I quite like, but that's beside the point).

Squashy Nipples
Aug 18, 2007

After looking into the specific hotels, the Homewood is the way to go. I'm definitely going to be concentrating on the Hilton hotels. I like their towels, and my favorite annual kinky hotel party is at a Hilton.

wafflesnsegways posted:

Red bean paste is indeed the best. I think it could easily make the leap to becoming popular in America, too. It's sweet and hearty and flavorful and really not weird at all. Put it in everything.

Yeah, I like it now, but like a fair number of Japanese foods, it was an acquired taste. If I could read enough kanji to know that I wasn't buying chocolate, I probably would have warmed up to it sooner.

Squashy Nipples
Aug 18, 2007

therattle posted:

New job? :tipshat: Do tell.

Management Consultant and Business Transformation Specialist, with a consulting group that focuses on the financial services industry.

Cool gig, but it's 100% travel. The women in my life are not happy, including my cat.

Rule .303
Dec 9, 2011
(Instructions are just some other guy's opinion)
When I traveled on business (my, that sounds grand) I got tired of best westerns and holiday inns (and motel 6s, eeugh) and I decided to try some B&Bs. Now, most places won't have a breakfast for you when you roll out at 4.30 am, but they tend to be clean, and I figure they try harder since they live on reputation and not on advertising.

We used GS (US government service reimbursement rates) hotel pricing for re-imbursement for the city so if you wanted to sleep in your car and eat cheetos you could turn in your chit and get full re-imbursement and per-diem, which to my thinking was pretty hard slog for the money, but the pricing, at least the average ones, was about what the hotels charged.

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat
When I traveled a lot I totally focused on points. Got me some free nights in a Marriott in Amsterdam for my troubles, but it took a fuckload of stays. I did much better accumulating AA points; took advantage of some special to get to gold then platinum, and flew twice a week for months.

It sucked. I don't miss that life at all.

Force de Fappe
Nov 7, 2008

Red bean paste doesn't really shine until you make it yourself. drat that's some good stuff. Funny that the lady wouldn't touch it, she'll happily down green bean soup, which in itself is one of those weird Asian desserts.

Happy Hat
Aug 11, 2008

He just wants someone to shake his corks, is that too much to ask??
Getting to gold at different airlines and hotel chains is some sort of weird real life version of a game with levelling up.. It really speaks to the nerd in you!

The advantages on the other hand (upgrades, and a loving newspaper, and also free stays), are really not worth the investment of time, and leaves you feeling like an empty husk.

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

Happy Hat posted:

Getting to gold at different airlines and hotel chains is some sort of weird real life version of a game with levelling up.. It really speaks to the nerd in you!

The advantages on the other hand (upgrades, and a loving newspaper, and also free stays), are really not worth the investment of time, and leaves you feeling like an empty husk.
In my case it took two phone calls. I got about 2 free transatlantic trips and 2 return trips to South Africa, so it was well worth it.
If you're travelling a lot it's stupid not to get something for nothing. Just don't make getting the points the point.

therattle fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Feb 28, 2012

Jay Carney
Mar 23, 2007

If you do that you will die on the toilet.

Happy Hat posted:

Getting to gold at different airlines and hotel chains is some sort of weird real life version of a game with levelling up.. It really speaks to the nerd in you!

The advantages on the other hand (upgrades, and a loving newspaper, and also free stays), are really not worth the investment of time, and leaves you feeling like an empty husk.

I really view it as a bonus, it is basically free money, and the more you do it, the more perks you get. Free upgrades, never flying coach, going in the quick lines...I guess it kind of is like an RPG. We totally need to incorporate a ten-sided dice into this thing.

Happy Hat
Aug 11, 2008

He just wants someone to shake his corks, is that too much to ask??

therattle posted:

In my case it took two phone calls. I got about 2 free transatlantic trips and 2 return trips to South Africa, so it was well worth it.
If you're travelling a lot it's stupid not to get something for nothing. Just don't make getting the points the point.

I agree completely - however - I still feel like a goddamn idiot whenever I check my different milage and hotel accounts.

I mean - seriously - I interrupt partnerships with vendors at work based on them providing me with free stuff, but when it comes to miles I am a goddamn whore, just lying flat on my stomach with my rear end-cheeks spread wide for the entire world to peruse and take advantage of.

And all of this just to level up once more!

Very Strange Things
May 21, 2008

Halalelujah posted:

Does anyone have any good food suggestions for Bangor Maine? Because the yelp page for this town makes me cackle endlessly with laughter.

Nope.

Actually, the sushi place "Ichiban" is pretty good.
There is an Indian place in the center of town that is good, but they are always closed.

This place is supposed to be really good, according to my friend Emily who lives up there and writes for the "culchah" section of the Daily News:
http://www.bangormetro.com/item/520-the-fiddlehead-restaurant
If it's the place I'm thinking of, then it's pretty small. I wasn't able to walk in when I was there.

"The Bagel Shop" is actually Jews from NY.so that's good bagel.

Let me know if you are leaving Bangor at all; there are better places elsewhere -near the coast mostly.

Find some Allagash beer and ale while you're here; it's superb. Nocturnem Draft Haus or Paddy Murphy's are good spots.
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Very Strange Things fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Feb 28, 2012

Phummus
Aug 4, 2006

If I get ten spare bucks, it's going for a 30-pack of Schlitz.
I don't have any restaurant recommendations for Bangor, sadly, but the last time I was there (about 15 years ago), when driving by McDonalds, they were advertising a McLobster roll. Sometimes I regret not getting one.

I stopped at a little shack on the roadside that sold fresh seafood and boiled lobsters, lobster rolls, etc. I don't even know if it had a name, but by god it was delicious food.

The Macaroni
Dec 20, 2002
...it does nothing.
My mom used to love the McLobstah rolls. Enough that she'd buy them, scoop out the filling, and freeze it for posterity.

Her posterity was rather horrified.

Toast
Dec 7, 2002

GoonsWithSpoons.com :chef:Generalissimo:chef:
Yeah, Atlantic Canada has them too. I'm told they aren't as bad as you'd think they would be, but still terrible.

Very Strange Things
May 21, 2008
Here's a map from Bangor to a corner store in Castine that actually has, arguably, the best lobster roll in Maine. Only 45 minutes, thereabouts. Castine is a cool little town anyway.

Mr. Wiggles
Dec 1, 2003

We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.
I have never had a lobster roll. I don't even really know what a lobster roll is. Is it like a taco?

GrAviTy84
Nov 25, 2004

Mr. Wiggles posted:

I have never had a lobster roll. I don't even really know what a lobster roll is. Is it like a taco?

Picture a tuna salad sandwich. Ok now replace the tuna with chunks of lobster and replace the bread with a soft but toasted heavily buttered roll. That's a lobster roll. Some lobster rolls have a warm lobster filling comprised of lobster in a shitton of butter.

They really should call them butter rolls with lobster.

Mr. Wiggles
Dec 1, 2003

We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.
That sounds......unimpressive.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

Mr. Wiggles posted:

That sounds......unimpressive.

Now imagine paying $15-25 for one

(or $5 at McDonald's for a McLobster Roll, which uses a hot dog bun instead of a proper roll)

Mr. Wiggles
Dec 1, 2003

We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.

Steve Yun posted:

Now imagine paying $15-25 for one

(or $5 at McDonald's for a McLobster Roll, which uses a hot dog bun instead of a proper roll)

East coast = least coast.

mindphlux
Jan 8, 2004

by R. Guyovich

Mr. Wiggles posted:

East coast = least coast.

usa = gay sa

Phummus
Aug 4, 2006

If I get ten spare bucks, it's going for a 30-pack of Schlitz.
Picture a tuna salad sandwich, but with chunks of lobster meat, a tiny bit of mayo, some chopped green onion, chopped celery, and a dash of tobasco on a buttered, toasted roll.

They can be very delicious if done properly.

E: and usually some lime or lemon juice in the mix.

Mr. Wiggles
Dec 1, 2003

We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.
A chicken salad sandwich can be nice while you're watching a Dodgers game on your couch, but I wouldn't order one at a restaurant.

GrAviTy84
Nov 25, 2004

Mr. Wiggles posted:

That sounds......unimpressive.

they're tasty but not really anything that special. If you're ever in LA, Son of a Gun has really good lobster rolls.

I like turtles
Aug 6, 2009

The ones I ran into in cape cod and some places in Maine were on a toasted piece of folded white bread. It was suggested that in those cases you just eat the filling.

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Wroughtirony
May 14, 2007



One thing to keep in mind is that lobsters are seasonal. They're caught year round, but the best tasting meat comes from newshell lobsters in the summer. The harder the shell, the blander the taste. Lobster rolls are only awesome when the lobster itself is awesome. Castine is worth a visit anyway, it's a very cool town.

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