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bringmyfishback posted:(Chinese McDonalds is the least delicious thing on earth, btw.) Thanks for this warning, it's what I would expect and why I haven't eaten at McDonald's in the year or so I've been here but I've been tempted to try that Angry Birds thing and I appreciate the confirmation of my suspicions. Still though, if you're up for it you should by all means give it a shot. Also Rigged Death Trap posted:all organ meats are cool and good and people should eat more of them. You're goddamn right.
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For those who aren't familiar with the...interesting world of Chinese pizzas, that second one is durian. I like durian but the idea of putting it on a pizza is a step too far for me.
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Oct 25, 2016 18:28
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Grand Fromage posted:Chopsticks were normal in Malaysia except at Indian places. Cambodia I can't actually remember if they did or not. My experience in Malaysia was chopsticks in Chinese places, hands in Indian places, forks or chopsticks almost at random in Malay places. On the topic of cocktails, I had horchata with dark rum recently and that's a tasty drink.
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Nov 25, 2016 03:30
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I can kind of understand caramel doritos, it sounds like a bad idea but I can understand why someone would give it a shot, but why is there pasta in the image on the label?
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Dec 23, 2016 11:01
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I bet GF and I could track this down... I saw it advertised today at the McDonald's near where I work in Beijing. I just thought "you do you, China" and kept on walking.
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Apr 4, 2017 17:32
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The Snoo posted:I've managed to cook things so they have a better texture (onions cooked until the crunch is gone [but he eats apples and it's like the same texture??]... I don't get poo poo like how he dislikes tomatoes but eats pizza or enjoys my chili that's full of tomato and peppers???? I can understand these because as a kid/teenager I didn't like either raw onions or raw tomatoes, but cooked onions and tomatoes were basically my favorite foods. I love both raw and cooked tomatoes and onions now but they really are completely different in both flavor and texture. About the onion/apple comparison, it may be the same texture but texture interacts with flavor. If you like that crunchy texture with something sweet like an apple that's no guarantee that you'll like it with something sharp and savory like an onion. I was a pretty picky eater as a kid but when I went away to college I made a conscious effort to expand my palette, mostly because I wanted to travel and I knew that I'd have to be open to trying local foods. Nowadays there are really only three things that I have trouble eating and they're kind of weird things to get hung up over, grapefruit, hot dogs (but not any other kind of sausage), and McDonald's hamburgers (but not any other kind of hamburgers). At least 2/3 of my weird picky eater food hangups are unhealthy things that I probably shouldn't be eating anyway, and there are other citrus fruits that I can eat instead of grapefruit so that's not really a problem either.
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May 2, 2017 17:24
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So, if this is meant to be a salad, presumably that's a shot glass full of olive oil for dressing right? Or is it actually a shot of some kind of liquor? Because I'm imagining some poor fool thinking it's the latter and just downing a shot of oil.
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May 23, 2017 08:27
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PubicMice posted:Content: I don't actually recognize the noodley stuff on top but based on everything else I can see this looks goddamn delicious.
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Jun 17, 2017 17:36
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Of course, salsagheti, that makes sense. Well, sort of. To be honest I'm not much of a fan of it, but still, with everything else that makes me incredibly homesick. Oh, if you julienned some pulparindo as a substitute for the salsagheti...
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Jun 17, 2017 19:12
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elise the great posted:if you eat enough of them you can fart fire. This is true of a lot of Mexican candy. Totally worth it though. Candy's not complete without salt and chile powder.
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Jun 18, 2017 00:49
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Tiggum posted:Banana banana sandwich. But according to the healthy swaps image you should substitute avocado for butter. So... fixed that for you: Tiggum posted:Take one banana and slice it in half lengthways. Spread avocado on the sliced edges of both halves. Take a second banana and mash it. Put the mashed banana on top of one half of the first banana, then put the other half on top of that as a lid. Banana banana sandwich. stereobreadsticks has a new favorite as of 13:04 on Aug 23, 2017 |
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Aug 23, 2017 12:58
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Grand Fromage posted:Don't eat human flesh elise. Could be the new "looks bad Todd"
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Sep 2, 2017 18:17
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:It's what my snot looks like after two years in China. Same. It's quite distressing.
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Sep 15, 2017 15:29
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Chiming in on the Mexican food outside Mexico/US issue to add that it's such a pain in the rear end to get this stuff in China too. I know it exists in Beijing, but somehow it's just not the same.
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IPAs are good, so are bananas, but grapefruit is the only fruit I've ever tried that I dislike, and that includes durian. Durian is delicious.
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Dec 20, 2017 22:12
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Grand Fromage posted:actually there are wrong ways such as: baijiu, soju, shochu, North Korean cognac, mezcal Mezcal can be great, there are some excellent ones from Oaxaca. Soju is fine, just a little too easy to overdo it if you're not careful. Baijiu is usually pretty bad but I'm developing a soft spot for Moutai. That North Korean cognac they sell at the DMZ gift shop is among the worst things I've ever put in my mouth. I may have a problem.
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Dec 21, 2017 19:38
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Grand Fromage posted:If you like a bitterish basic British ale, yeah it's not bad. Mostly it looks good in comparison with South Korean beer, which was utter garbage prior to deregulation. The big beers (Hite, Cass, OB) are still complete trash but there are a more decent non-import, non-brewpub options nowadays. There's stuff like Kloud, which isn't a good beer but is a billion times better than sHite and at least vaguely resembles something a human being with functional tastebuds would choose to drink. Honestly, if you're drinking beer pretty much anywhere in east Asia you just can't expect it to taste good. My "favorite" is Yanjing, the lovely cheap beer you get all over Beijing. It manages to pull off the magic trick of giving you a hangover without actually getting you drunk first.
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You're definitely right about makgeolli, I also kind of like bokbunjaju. As far as beer goes, yeah, there are decent smaller breweries everywhere and Tsingtao is drinkable even outside of the city of Qingdao, but in general Chinese beer is pretty bad. You're probably right about Hite and Cass being worse though, it's been a while since I've had a bad night out on Jinro/Hite so-maek and it's really not an experience I wish to revisit. Especially when I can just as easily ruin my health with some Red Star Erguotou from the corner shop. Actually, I can't decide which of those two experiences would be worse.
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Dec 22, 2017 15:18
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I can't stand the canned black olives you get on pizzas but any other kind of olives are delicious. The brinier and more bitter, the better. Canned black olives just have an unpleasant texture and not enough flavor to make up for it.
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axolotl farmer posted:Canned black olives are usually really bad green olives that have been dyed black. Yeah, as I said all other olives are delicious, including kalamatas. I lived in Istanbul for a while, I know what good olives taste like. And on the topic of... chili. That's some quality anti-food porn.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Needs some kiwi and durian on there, too. And blueberry syrup. Bullshit, Asia is where the concept of no pizza rules reaches its glorious epitome. Lobster bisque with rotini pasta? Why not use an actual soup as a topping for a pizza? Durian? Way better than I ever would have expected. Sweet potato puree around the rim of every loving pizza in Korea, ok maybe it's not all great. But I absolutely love how creative they get with pizza in this part of the world. The best and worst chain-restaurant pizzas (I have to specify because obviously I've had better homemade pizza and better mom & pop pizzeria pizza) I've ever had were both in China. The best one was Sichuan spiced crayfish pizza, the worst was one that I thought was just chicken but turned out to be chicken cartilage. I'm ok with a lot of weird foods but cartilage doesn't belong on a pizza so much as it belongs in the trash after you've eaten the rest of the chicken.
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Jan 1, 2018 19:16
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i could actually imagine a solidly gelatinized cartilage being good for a sauce addition That might not be a bad idea, but when people in Asia eat cartilage they eat it because they want the crunch. It's specifically the little bit that sticks off the end of the breast bone. I'd post a photo but I'm having trouble uploading stuff to imgur, which happens when you use the internet in Beijing.
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The Bloop posted:way too much blue cheese I'm sorry? That statement just doesn't make sense to me.
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pidan posted:People do eat brains you know. Not human brains obv, but my mom cooked a nice pig brain every now and then when I was little. I didn't eat it, and after the BSE situation few people do, but after looking up brain as food on Wikipedia, it appears to be an ingredient in a variety of sausages, so I've probably eaten a fair amount of brain in my meat eating days. My dad used to eat (pig) brains & eggs once in a while, apparently it's a southern thing that he got from his relatives in Arkansas. I tried them once, they just tasted like fattier than normal scrambled eggs. I've also had pig brains in Sichuan style hot pot in China and they're pretty good but so fatty it's hard to eat a whole one.
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The Bloop posted:Of course it is. It's a misnomer. Just like a Boston creme pie, or a starfish, jellyfish, koala bear, etc. A koala bear is most definitely not a tart. Not so sure about the other ones. Could a starfish be a pizza? Are there jellyfish rules? These are the questions that keep me up at night.
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PubicMice posted:Is a breadbowl a pizza or a sandwich? That depends, do you reserve the "lid" and put it back on the breadbowl? With the lid it's a sandwich, without it's a pizza. Although isn't that a trick question since pizza is itself a sandwich?
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If a pizza becomes soup do soup rules apply?
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Yawgmoth posted:what if I vape a pizza This sounds like a million dollar idea. stereobreadsticks has a new favorite as of 00:22 on Mar 8, 2018 |
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Mar 7, 2018 23:26
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Put the Watergate salad on a pizza.
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 I had something today in Pasto, Colombia that was tasty but not pretty. Platano maduro con queso y bocadillo, that's a ripe plantain, stuffed with cheese and guava paste, then baked.
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For what it's worth the cheesy plantain boat (thanks Fleta for that excellent description worthy of a terrible '60s cookbook) was genuinely good. Slightly salty from the cheese, sweet from both the ripe plantain and the guava, tart from the guava, and savory from the cheese and the plantain, surprisingly balanced. I'm about to cross the border into Ecuador today, will keep an eye out for AFP for the thread. But before I go, I thought I'd share something from a previous trip. In October I was in Southeast Asia for a couple of weeks and I had this for lunch in Cambodia one day.  stereobreadsticks has a new favorite as of 15:00 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Thank you for not posting the bog-standard Cambodian tourist shot of a tarantula on a stick! I thought the snakes were prettier.
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I hate to interrupt tomato chat (for the record, as a kid I hated all raw tomatoes including the ones my mom grew in the backyard that I now know were amazing, but always loved cooked ones. Now I like them both.) but as promised here's some Ecuadorian AFP from my dinner tonight. I'm afraid I went with the cliche, sorry.
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The Bloop posted:I'm not that hungry, I'll just have a side salad. To be fair there's a quarter of a hard boiled egg, half an avocado, and a slice of tomato there too. Still, welcome to the Andes I guess. You'll eat your potato and you'll like it.
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Cakefarts Carol posted:And yet no-one is mentioning the sad little dish of popcorn It's hard to tell but there were banana chips mixed in with it too. All unsalted but it still tasted pretty good dipped into the spicy sauce to the left.
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CannonFodder posted:So how do chocolate soft serve ice cream snakes pair with lime, dirt, and red crayon? Just saw this post, the snakes were deep fried and tasted more or less like frog legs if you've ever had them, sort of midway between fish and poultry. My only complaint was that they were really small and had a ton of bones so, like when you eat small fish like anchovies or sardines, you just wind up crunching through them. It's fine, but I'm not a big fan of eating the bones. As for the accompaniments, the lime was nice because the acid cut through the fattiness like when you put lemon on fried fish, the "dirt" was a spice mix that you could either sprinkle over the snakes or dip them in and it was pretty good. And I honestly don't remember what the "red crayon" actually was. Bonus: From my last meal with my roommate in Beijing before leaving China. She's from a small town (by Chinese standards) in Sichuan and she wanted me to try something she loved from her hometown, so we had some rabbit. Sorry, it's a little blurry:  And from the night before that,  And finally, not really AFP but this was from a chain bakery near where I worked in Beijing, one of their Halloween specials. 
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Finally, someone is getting rid of the most annoying part of any sauce, its moisture.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Yeah, i know, but working there is still a bad decision Worked in Daejeon, can confirm.
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Grand Fromage posted:Often ducks in China are served with the head split in half. I don't know why because there's literally nothing edible in there. Rabbit heads and duck heads are both good. I've never seen the duck heads split in half, when I had them they were just served whole.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:GF, you're making me so nostalgic and like I need to make ddakgalbi tonight. God I miss ddakgalbi. I think I need to make some too.
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