hmmmm....Food!!!! What we like to eat!

Quickie · Jul 9, 2009

Re: Your Favorite Foods...What you like to eat

bladerunner said:
Sour as in what a lemon/ unripe pineapple/ passionfruit?

can you relate the taste to a more common fruit?

Hm...can't relate to any other fruits, the texture is different from other fruits. The red variety taste better, sweet and slightly sour, and probably cost slightly more.

sumdud · Jul 9, 2009

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red flesh or red skin? The ones I had in Guangzhou and Hong Kong were white fleshed and they were slightly sweet, but it does leave a tartness/sourness in your mouth.... kind of like having had a bottle of yakult. The texture is kind of.... sandy? Sandy like really old watermelon because of the seeds, like it is not going to pour out..... I guess you can say it's frozen fruit juice at room temperature.

Taste is like a typical melon I guess, mellow and a little sweet, but it is really subtle, really subtle. If it's not ripe enough, it probably would not have a taste other than the tartness.

bladerunner · Jul 10, 2009

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sumdud said:
red flesh or red skin? The ones I had in Guangzhou and Hong Kong were white fleshed and they were slightly sweet, but it does leave a tartness/sourness in your mouth.... kind of like having had a bottle of yakult. The texture is kind of.... sandy? Sandy like really old watermelon because of the seeds, like it is not going to pour out..... I guess you can say it's frozen fruit juice at room temperature.

Taste is like a typical melon I guess, mellow and a little sweet, but it is really subtle, really subtle. If it's not ripe enough, it probably would not have a taste other than the tartness.

Would you have any idea what Chew Chong might have been exporting back to China, its some fungus type of thing. Anyway I have posted an article on him in the Notable Immigrants thread, where it explains in a little more detail about this stuff.

Quickie · Jul 11, 2009

Re: Your Favorite Foods...What you like to eat

sumdud said:
red flesh or red skin? The ones I had in Guangzhou and Hong Kong were white fleshed and they were slightly sweet, but it does leave a tartness/sourness in your mouth.... kind of like having had a bottle of yakult. The texture is kind of.... sandy? Sandy like really old watermelon because of the seeds, like it is not going to pour out..... I guess you can say it's frozen fruit juice at room temperature.

Taste is like a typical melon I guess, mellow and a little sweet, but it is really subtle, really subtle. If it's not ripe enough, it probably would not have a taste other than the tartness.

Not exactly red, actually. To be more exact, the flesh is purple red with tiny black seeds.

sumdud · Jul 13, 2009

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Just remembered- here are somethings that I think a native Chinese would know about but not always foreigners and "bananas". (By native Chinese, I mean Southerners, I don't know if Northern China have these types of food products.)

Any comments or hate toward these?

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Typically used in soups/broths, lung cleaner.

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These are so nice and crunchy.....

Anyone here a fan of this?

The Okinawan variety:

Lemme guess: no?

And I can't figure out what Taranaki Wool is eexactly, or what it looks like.

bladerunner · Jul 13, 2009

Re: Your Favorite Foods...What you like to eat

sumdud said:
Just remembered- here are somethings that I think a native Chinese would know about but not always foreigners and "bananas". (By native Chinese, I mean Southerners, I don't know if Northern China have these types of food products.)

Anyone here a fan of this?
[qimg]http://norwegianity.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/asiansquash-bittermelon.jpg[/qimg]
The Okinawan variety:
[qimg]http://i.pbase.com/v3/49/544849/2/48147983.GOYAOKINAWASBITTF4E04.jpg[/qimg]
Lemme guess: no?

I like it. Im more use to it with a filling and i think its then steamed. Ive had it with mince pork as found in dim sims or the fish ball mixture. Yum

Damingli85 · Jul 13, 2009

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1. Tomato and eggs hands down best dish ever (do not try to argue)

2. Now for a broader view, I like Northern Chinese and Korean food. I guess its because I grew up in Hebei and I am used to salty foods. Not to criticize Cantonese cuisine but I cannot take sweet or extremely oily foods.

vesicles · Jul 14, 2009

Re: Your Favorite Foods...What you like to eat

sumdud said:
Just remembered- here are somethings that I think a native Chinese would know about but not always foreigners and "bananas". (By native Chinese, I mean Southerners, I don't know if Northern China have these types of food products.)

Any comments or hate toward these?

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Typically used in soups/broths, lung cleaner.

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These are so nice and crunchy.....

Anyone here a fan of this?
[qimg]http://norwegianity.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/asiansquash-bittermelon.jpg[/qimg]
The Okinawan variety:
[qimg]http://i.pbase.com/v3/49/544849/2/48147983.GOYAOKINAWASBITTF4E04.jpg[/qimg]
Lemme guess: no?

And I can't figure out what Taranaki Wool is eexactly, or what it looks like.

As a guy coming from Northnern China, I would have to say no. I had never heard of such a thing when I was in China. however, I have acquired a taste for it while in Houston. It is very bidder if you eat it like that. Cleaning the spines and seeds, like how you clean a spicy pepper, will eliminate much of the bidderness. If you stir-fry it with meat, it tastes awesome

vesicles · Jul 14, 2009

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Damingli85 said:
1. Tomato and eggs hands down best dish ever (do not try to argue)

That was the first dish I was taught how to cook (probably true for all/most of the Chinese).

Damingli85 said:
2. Now for a broader view, I like Northern Chinese and Korean food. I guess its because I grew up in Hebei and I am used to salty foods. Not to criticize Cantonese cuisine but I cannot take sweet or extremely oily foods.

You should also love soy sauce. My dad who is from Shandong adds soy sauce to everything. I have the similar habit, which annoys the heck out of my wife who is from Shenzhen (South). She thinks that dark color is disgusting.

As for the Cantonese cuisine, in my opinion, they use their sauces all wrong. they put sweet stuff in savory dishes and put salt and meat in dessert-like dishes.

bladerunner · Jul 14, 2009

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vesicles said:
That was the first dish I was taught how to cook (probably true for all/most of the Chinese).

Now Thats really strange. I certainly wouldn't have placed tomato as a widely consumed vegetable amongst the Chinese Traditionally anyway

So fried Won tuns in sweet and sour sauce is out........ Huh?

I cant stand Korean Food . The smell puts me off.
I live in an area that has a high Korean concentration and in my local shopping suburb theres this Korean Restaraunt, and highly patronised by the local Koreans, man you can smell the food many metres up the road., what a pong

hmmmm....Food!!!! What we like to eat!

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