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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3533
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 9, 2006 - 3:08 pm: | 
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Yummy!
Just finished the last of my Kurogoma Pocky sticks, those ingredients were in the stuff coating the sticks.
They had quite a different aroma, and the taste took a couple of bites to get into, but now I'm hooked...
must get more!
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Vincent the Dog
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 2063
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 9, 2006 - 3:35 pm: |
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Hey, Monster, do you ever have a thought or impulse that you DON'T post here? |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 569
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 9, 2006 - 3:55 pm: |
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What the heck is that??? |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 195
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 9, 2006 - 5:35 pm: |
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so - you're shopping at the asian foods market again, right????!!!!!
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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3535
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 2:32 am: |
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howard, no
joanne, yes |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 196
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 9:25 am: |
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what else is on the shopping list? I could happily munch some of those yummy crackers that are peanuts inside cracker dough shaped like peanuts...can't eat peanuts though *sigh* Think they're Chinese? Then there are the wasabi peas - tried those yet? go great with - beer-style drinks. Ever tried the 'grass jelly'? I'm curious as to jsut how foul it tastes (things I am allergic to tend to taste foul or smell like they should be swept from stable floors)... |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3541
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 5:31 pm: |
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I'll have to look for those peanut crackers Joanne, yesterday I opened up a package of lemon crackers, the crackers were two thin cheddar crackers with lemon creme between them, I liked them.
Wasabi peas are good, but I' don't know about grass jelly, maybe if they have a little sample size. |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 9839
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 5:43 pm: |
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I remember having grass jelly in China and liking it. It's made from a plant in the mint family, but I forgot what it's called. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3545
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 6:07 pm: |
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ah Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_jelly
Quote:Grass jelly (Chinese: ?? liáng f?n or ??? sh?o xi?n c?o; Minnan (Hokkien): ?? sian-chháu; Malay: cincau) is a type of food with a jelly-like consistency that is used in China and Southeast Asia in drinks and desserts. It is sold in cans or packets in Asian supermarkets.
Can of grass jelly drink manufactured in Taiwan but sold internationally.
Grass jelly is made from boiling grasses in the mint family (specifically Mesona chinensis) with potassium carbonate, and then cooling the liquid down to a jelly-like consistency. This jelly can then be mixed with syrup to produce a drink thought to have cooling (yin) properties. This has a slight iodine flavour and looks like a clear, deep brown liquid with strands or cubes of translucent blackish jelly in it. It can also be mixed with soy milk to produce a milky white liquid with black strands in it, a drink known as Michael Jackson in Southeast Asia (see, for example [1]).
Grass jelly is also mixed in various kinds of South-East Asian desserts such as ice kachang and chendol.
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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3546
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 6:10 pm: |
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I just noticed that Michael Jackson bit ^^^^^
Quote:It can also be mixed with soy milk to produce a milky white liquid with black strands in it, a drink known as Michael Jackson in Southeast Asia
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Shanabana
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Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 550
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 8:50 pm: |
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The best thing about the Japanese stuff (especially the cookies) is the packaging. Boy do they know how to sell product!!! Love the hamburger cookies--you know the ones with the bun/cookies and chocolate/burger filling.
Which market do you use? I heard there's a place on 10 near a Home Depot. |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 202
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 9:59 pm: |
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Guys, I love you! Now I know why I can't stand any of the 'grass jellies' I've tried - I'm allergic to iodine!!!! well, intolerant, anyway! Have always been too forgetful to look it up in wikipedia, so thanks Dave! |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3547
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 10:28 pm: |
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Shanabana I've yet to go to the one on Rt.10, I've gone to the Asian Food Market on Rt.22 West |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 204
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 11:06 pm: |
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Anyone reading this thread, I have soaked some yummy sliced dried mushrooms & assorted fungi in a mix called 'forest mix'. Want to make a soup for dinner, vaguely Asian inspired. Ideas/recipes, please? No garlic, not too spicy, please and no extra shopping required if possible (I have a fair amount of 'stuff' already in my pantry). |
Shanabana
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Username: Shanabana
Post Number: 556
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 - 1:14 pm: |
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In my experience, asian dishes require lots of extra shopping. And lots of garlic. Try googling mushrooms and Japanese recipies... |
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