13 June 2011

exciting natural whale meat!

this weekend I passed by this tent in Aker Brygge, and the signs out front caught my eye:

Okay, specifically I was intrigued by “whale wok” (wok is the term in Norwegian for stir-fry) and “whale kebab”. I went in to see if I could find the kebabs, but this is the closest I found:

You can’t tell from the photo, but it was a guy frying what basically looked like giant lumps of kidney. So, not very appetizing. Oh well–just your average Oslo Sunday afternoon, minus the whale kebabs.

This was all to promote some fishing/whaling association, with a nice whale ad:

[Whale meat. An exciting, natural and healthy ingredient.]

I guess they figured a picture of Shamu next to the hunk of meat wouldn’t sell, so they had to settle for a boring iceberg…

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11 June 2011

hobby chocolate

break time! I needed a snack, so I thought I’d try something new–and what better than a retro-looking chocolate bar?

the Hobby

oh the excitement…

Hobby revealed

too bad it’s kinda gross. Chocolate covered fake-banana flavoured thing on a layer of marshmallow. ew…

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9 April 2011

persian sweet lemons

couldn’t help but notice a large pile of “iranian sweet lemons” outside a middle eastern store today (strangely they were all individually wrapped in little plastic bags), so I bought one to try at home.

unlike a lemon, there is no acidity at all (even less than in an orange)… and it’s not very sweet, but rather delicate tasting. refreshing!

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25 February 2011

taste of krakow

food findings from a short but sweet visit to Krakow:

cake in a can!

ok, it wasn’t *really* cake in a can, but only the filling (to my disappointment–sort of like discovering poutine in a can is actually only the sauce).

lard on bread

this time it was definitely lard on bread. not too bad, but I should have added some salt. I later found a bottled version in a fancy grocery store:

"lard with ground bacon"

along with…

"strawberry jam with polish vodka"

but my memory of the visit is blurred by the food coma from our last night, induced by mountains of honey-braised ribs, crispy pork knuckle, marinated duck and perogies perogies perogies… (all served by buxom Polish waitresses, of course.)

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21 December 2010

mala xiangguo (麻辣香锅)

This is a new dish I discovered on my last trip to China; and I’m hoping someone just recently invented this, because I don’t know how I could not have tried it before! After seeing people line up for this dish at different food courts, we finally tried it at a sit-down place called… yep, the name of the dish. (ma la xiang guo = “numbing spicy fragrant pot”)

Unfortunately this is a post-eating shot, but you can see it’s for spice lovers. You could say it’s kinda like a dry version of hotpot… Basically there’s a counter with raw ingredients (similar to what you would find for hotpot), and your server fills a gigantic metal bowl with whatever you tell him. Then after choosing either regular or really spicy, the cook does some sort of magic cookery while you wait for its final delivery to your table. YUM! and NUMB!

I believe you pay by weight at food courts, but at this particular restaurant it was a set price. which apparently also included ice cream to cool you down after (or maybe even during?) your meal–like this guy here, who we watched alternate bites between the bowl and his two cones:

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