here is a diagram for you

it is our friend pocky in its natural habitat

lol I used to eat Koalas all the time they were pretty sweet!

this is my photograph, I own this product I took this picture with my own camera

eatmygore you are a racist

His food is racist

They left out the blacks

Blacks serve with your favorite fried chicken or with some watermelon.

blacks eat curry too, moreso than many bwhite ppl

this topic inspired me to eat some durian. i'd always wanted to and this was the perfect time (aside from the fact they're out of season)...
anyway, i was seriously expecting to cut it open and immediately vomit, but i kind of liked it. i actually really liked it. it tastes like this mystery flavor starburst that i really liked.
everyone who i was with had something they thought it tasted like. someone said roasted onion, one said garlic, one said funk. i think the reactions are pretty funny.
so what do you think it tastes like?

Yea, I went out and bought one too.  I did not like it at all.  I thought the smell was pretty bad, but I got used to it pretty quickly and then it didn't bother me.  However, the taste was just horrendous.  I don't really know how to describe how it tasted to me other than rancid.  It was strange though, because I was expecting to feel sick after eating it (the normal reaction to eating something rancid) but I didn't.  It just tastes really bad with the only side effect of the taste lingered in my mouth for the rest of the night.  Brushing my teeth only seemed to make it worse.

However, some of the durian "juice" ended up on my counter and I was cleaning it up, so I sprayed bleach on it, and that just seemed to super charge the smell.  My whole kitchen smelled like rotten meat for an hour straight, then it disappeared.  All in all, I think it was worth the money for the experience.

I've got a couple of updates bulletins on this topic.

I found out there was a huge asian supermarket in Glasgow (it was obvious there would be but i didn't know where any were). It's called See Woo and it's got all the crap. It's stuffed up right to the walls with all kindsa crap and stuff. I went there the other day and I'd never been to a supermarket where they sell live things before. It wasn't anything that exciting but there were eels there. It was like being in a pet shop.

I didn't buy much that was interesting, just noodles and curry stuff BUT I did go ahead and buy some frozen durian and stuff to make kimchi.

This is my durian review.

The durian was - - - - kind of gross. I like the smell, but eating it wasn't that great. I still have a hunk of durian left in the freezer, infusing everything else with it's aroma. Yeah, the smell wasn't that overpowering and neither was the taste it was mostly just a kind of crappy flavour that I could see being nice in ice cream or something but wasn't too interested in eating alone. I'm gonna try the rest of it again to see if I like it more the second time because sometimes food is like that. Durian is expensive in the UK though, even the frozen stuff, it costs like £4 for a box with 2 chunks of the edible part. That's alotta dough, so I won't be buying it again unless I am in a place where it is alot cheaper.

I bought all the stuff to make kimchi, apart from a couple of things that I didn't want to spend money on. Here's what I put into it:

- nappa cabbage
- ginger root
- red chili flakes
- garlic
- apple
- spring onions/green onions
- sugar
- salt

i think that was all. note: this recipe is protected under international copyright laws and courtesies. feel like taking credit? i'll fuck your whole life.

so the thing you have to do for kimchi is ferment the nappa cabbage in salt water for a few hours (i done it overnight), then the next day make up the sauce by just mixing every other ingredient together. after that, drain the cabbage (which should now be floppy and have a weird texture), then mix everything together in a big bowl. find a couple of tight containers, pack it in tight, and let it sit at room temperature for a couple of days. 3 seems like optimum. after that, you can eat it and store it in the fridge and it should be good for a couple of weeks.

here is what my kimchi looks like:




maybe you think that looks like a pile of blood and guts but i just tried it and it's great! i am getting pretty good at making things. i put it in some noodles, and just now some rice and both times it was great and better than the kimchi i bought a while ago from a shop.

i've been thinking about making some kimchi lately. luckily i have a trusty, well protected recipe now.
yum

I bought all the stuff to make kimchi, apart from a couple of things that I didn't want to spend money on.

OR REALLY?





I am interested though as to what was missing in the recipe. It looks very unusual but if it tastes good then theres no complaint from me.

i think the main things i left out were oyster sauce and radish. there are loads of varieties of kimchi though so i have probably made one kind exactly right.

i have the best kimchi ever shipped to my house from the motherland on a semi-regular basis, it's made in a buddhist temple by a family friend who's a monk.

and it looks exactly like that.