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

vesicles

vesicles

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

bladerunner said:
Can anyone tell me what these might be, thanks.

1/ They look like thick deep fried egg noodles covered with some sort of sticky honey sugar mixture and cut into approx 3x 2" squares .


2/ Round deep fried mixture with sesame seed on the outside surface with a sweet filling inside consisting of red bean? or coconut mixture?, usually golf ball to tennis ball in size.
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1) no clue

2) I've had it many times at Dim Sim places and LOVE it. I don't its name though. My wife told me it's called "sesame ball", but I think she's trying to mess with me again :confused:

Tennis ball, huh? That's HUGE! What I have is a little bigger than a golf ball.
 
bladerunner

bladerunner

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

vesicles said:
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2) I've had it many times at Dim Sim places and LOVE it. I don't its name though. My wife told me it's called "sesame ball", but I think she's trying to mess with me again :confused:

Tennis ball, huh? That's HUGE! What I have is a little bigger than a golf ball.
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Can you not read the Chinese Menu:( I cant read Chinese either:eek: but Ive got an excuse, being a descendant of a family who left for the Western World in the 1860's, and living in places with very little contact with other Chinese.
Thes sesame ball thingys , sometimes instead of having a sweet filling , also came with a diced roast pork and chinese mushrooms and other bits and pieces, hence they were bigger.

To question1/.
Phoenetically in Cantonese it sounded like " SART CARE MA" one can buy it in the Chinese grocery shops, but because they are made in Taiwan, and then sit on shelves for god knows how long, they have a stale taste to them.

I thought I would make my own but im not too sure on the sticky mixture.
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vesicles

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

bladerunner said:
vesicles said:
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Can you not read the Chinese Menu:( I cant read Chinese either:eek: but Ive got an excuse, being a descendant of a family who left for the Western World in the 1860's, and living in places with very little contact with other Chinese.
Thes sesame ball thingys , sometimes instead of having a sweet filling , also came with a diced roast pork and chinese mushrooms and other bits and pieces, hence they were bigger.

To question1/.
Phoenetically in Cantonese it sounded like " SART CARE MA" one can buy it in the Chinese grocery shops, but because they are made in Taiwan, and then sit on shelves for god knows how long, they have a stale taste to them.

I thought I would make my own but im not too sure on the sticky mixture.
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Well, we usually get them at Dim Sim places, where they don't have a menu. They usually divide their dishes into 3 groups: small, medium and large. All we get is a sheet with 3 catagories followed by a bunch of numbers: small snack, medium snack and large ones. Every time we take something from the cart, they simply mark the sheet as either small, medium or large snack. At the end, they charge us by counting how many of each catagory we took. So we would have no way of knowing what each dish is called. Of course, they would sometimes tell us the name of dishes, but 1) most of the service people are Cantonese and I don't speak cantonese; 2) it is difficult to pay attention to them when you are in the middle of a feeding frenzy :D

P.S. about my Chinese. Speaking wise, you can't tell I've ever left China :). I've managed to maintain a decent Beijing accent. writing wise, I can't finish a sentence...:(:(
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bladerunner

bladerunner

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

vesicles said:
bladerunner said:
P.S. about my Chinese. Speaking wise, you can't tell I've ever left China :). I've managed to maintain a decent Beijing accent. writing wise, I can't finish a sentence...:(:(
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Oh yeah my sons good buddy who also studies engineering, ( I briefly mentioned him in the chit chat thread)He's from Jinan thats northern China eh? with similar taste in food?.
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bladerunner

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

I think they are called Soft Flour Cake
Heres the advertsing blurb on one, Funny how they claim the taste will make you joyful, as I thought only “Marijuana Cake,” was only capable of doing that.:)

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Detailed Product Description Soft flour cake is a good traditional snacks for your leisure life.This is the sesame taste.It is made elaborately by the wheat flour,egg,vegetable oil,granulated sugar,malt sugar and the leavening agents. The particular taste will make you joyful.
 
sumdud

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

Ah, reminds me of what my mom does, but she uses english or Taiwanese cucumbers, because they don't have the prickly hair. She doesn't cut them, she gives it a wack and the melon splits
By tube ones,I assume that you mean 枝竹. Can't really imagine....

2/ Round deep fried mixture with sesame seed on the outside surface with a sweet filling inside consisting of red bean? or coconut mixture?, usually golf ball to tennis ball in size.
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Oh yea, some places make them freaking huge.
Comes standard with a coat of sesame.
Yea, they come in different sizes, and some are hollow, some are solid and freaking hard. (Different batter I think.) If you are in Hong Kong, you might find some that has a red top, seemingly having a flower "burst" out.

I have never seen one w/ a coconut filling, but maybe that was a SEA influence.

The savory ones go by a different name.

Jinan is the capital of Shandong, while Damingli and Vesicles have roots in Shanxi. Opposite sides of a mountain range and separated by Hebei in the middle.
I must say, their dumplings are THE BEST. (From what I have tasted so far anyway.)
 
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Re: Your Favorite Foods...What you like to eat

sumdud said:
Jinan is the capital of Shandong, while Damingli and Vesicles have roots in Shanxi. Opposite sides of a mountain range and separated by Hebei in the middle.
I must say, their dumplings are THE BEST. (From what I have tasted so far anyway.)
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Actually, I have roots in Shandong as well. ;) My dad came from Xuzhou, Shandong. I guess you can say that I have the best of both sides of the mountain :D (and don't ask me which mountain we are talking about, no clue)

People in Shandong like salty food and, according to my dad, they LOVE soy sauce and put it in just about everything they cook. My dad actually adds soy sauce when he eats boiled eggs. This habit of adding soy sauce sometimes annoys the heck out of my mom since she thinks that soy sauce makes the dish look "dirty".

BTW, have you guys had tea eggs (eggs boiled in a soup of tea leaves and soy sauce)? It's delicious.
 
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Damingli85

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

Ves, are we brothers or something? I mean the only way I eat eggs is tea eggs. My mom makes the best.
Talking about the ball with the sesame my dad loves that stuff, I don't like the soft chewy pastry stuff from China. Talking about dumplings tho, from 1-10 10 being the best can any of you rate Tianjin Gou Bu Li baozi? I had it when I was little, but I want to go back after I finish my CPA exam. And yes, when I do go back I will be wolfing down every type of food I can get my hands on. Which reminds me, Jian bing guozi is so awesome, I wish someone makes it here on the east coast.
 
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Re: Your Favorite Foods...What you like to eat

Damingli85 said:
Ves, are we brothers or something?
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Yep! Didn't I say you are one of my people? ;)

Damingli85 said:
I mean the only way I eat eggs is tea eggs. My mom makes the best.
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Same here. My mom still won't tell me what kind of tea she uses for the eggs...

Damingli85 said:
Which reminds me, is so awesome, I wish someone makes it here on the east coast.
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We have a lot of places serving that here in Houston. Since about 4-5 years ago, we've been steadily getting more Northern-style restaurants in Houston. And they all serve typical Northern-style breakfast. Although not the best I've had (in case of Jian bing guozi, the guozi part is a little hard and not crispy enough and the Jian bing part is a little too thick and they use a little too much of the sauce, mian jiang), it is a bit of reminder of the good old days...
 
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Damingli85

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

You would expect a place like NYC would have it, but for some idiotic reason they do not have a jianbing guozi place. There use to be a really small shandong style resturant, I mean they only serve pot stickers, onion pancakes, and other xiaochi. Do you guys have the xinjiang lamb kababs down there too? When I was little in Baoding, my grandmother never let me have any because she said it was dirty lol. I bought some at NYC a few years ago, they were pretty good.
 
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