I am not a fan of red bean paste or red bean flavored ANYTHING
I mean shit I'll eat it
but I'm not a fan of beans in general, no matter what kind they are or where they come from
EXCEPT SOYA BEANS
Red bean paste is a sort of comfort food for me. My grandfather eats buns with red bean paste in them because they're soft and he has bad teeth. He would give me one all the time when I was younger. Sadly now, his teeth are even more weak so they're too hard for him. Eats watered down red bean porridge.
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seriously steamed pork buns/cha siu bow/cha chao bao is my favorite dim sum, it is almost always ordered when my family does a Cantonese lunch
others include shrimp dumplings/ha gow/xia jiao, pork dumplings/siu mye/shao mai, and chicken feet/fung tsao/feng jiao
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edited November 2008
what are those fluffy little chinese buns with powdered sugar on top called
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believe me as a Cantonese person I know how unpopular my opinions on red beans are
but I maintain that Cantonese desserts are so very good
mango pudding (or durian pudding if you're in Singapore!), almond milk, sago with coconut milk and mango and pomelo, oh my goddddddddd
also in Singapore and Malaysia they have "Ice Kacang" (pronounced ka-chang) which is basically a mountain of shaved ice sitting on a bed of red and green beans and then drowned in brightly-colored flavored syrup
kinda like a sno-cone but BIGGER, it's served in a massive dish
also in Singapore and Malaysia they have "Ice Kacang" (pronounced ka-chang) which is basically a mountain of shaved ice sitting on a bed of red and green beans and then drowned in brightly-colored flavored syrup
kinda like a sno-cone but BIGGER, it's served in a massive dish
I'd always eat the ice and leave the beans
i've had this! a malay place on 8th avenue in brooklyn serves a bunch
i shared with a friend and ours was also split and i also left the red bean
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believe me as a Cantonese person I know how unpopular my opinions on red beans are
but I maintain that Cantonese desserts are so very good
mango pudding (or durian pudding if you're in Singapore!), almond milk, sago with coconut milk and mango and pomelo, oh my goddddddddd
also in Singapore and Malaysia they have "Ice Kacang" (pronounced ka-chang) which is basically a mountain of shaved ice sitting on a bed of red and green beans and then drowned in brightly-colored flavored syrup
kinda like a sno-cone but BIGGER, it's served in a massive dish
I'd always eat the ice and leave the beans
In Korea we've got something similar. It's called pot-bing-soo. Pot means red bean paste. It's a pile of shaved ice with a little milk (or coconut milk or condensed milk) with red bean paste and some kind of powder made from what I think is a bean. But now they've gone more crazy and add a little cereal, little bits of rice cake, marshmallows, and lots of different kinds of fruit. So cooooold and fresh.
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it should not be pink or bright red and if it is, you know they're using food coloring to tweak it
I have that issue up in Shanghai, where half the Cantonese steamed pork buns you find here are obviously manipulated in appearance with food coloring and they are just AWFUL
believe me as a Cantonese person I know how unpopular my opinions on red beans are
but I maintain that Cantonese desserts are so very good
mango pudding (or durian pudding if you're in Singapore!), almond milk, sago with coconut milk and mango and pomelo, oh my goddddddddd
also in Singapore and Malaysia they have "Ice Kacang" (pronounced ka-chang) which is basically a mountain of shaved ice sitting on a bed of red and green beans and then drowned in brightly-colored flavored syrup
kinda like a sno-cone but BIGGER, it's served in a massive dish
I'd always eat the ice and leave the beans
In Korea we've got something similar. It's called pot-bing-soo. Pot means red bean paste. It's a pile of shaved ice with a little milk (or coconut milk or condensed milk) with red bean paste and some kind of powder made from what I think is a bean. But now they've gone more crazy and add a little cereal, little bits of rice cake, marshmallows, and lots of different kinds of fruit. So cooooold and fresh.
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edited November 2008
another awesome dessert is (and I don't even know what it's called in Chinese) this giant pile of chopped fruit that has been dipped in hot caramel and is served in a giant sticky pile on a plate
and you yank a piece of the fruit off and dip it into ice water to solidify the caramel and then you eat it
it is so messy
but sweet lord that'll drop a diabetic in thirty seconds flat
Get out of here Viv. You don't like kimchi and red beans/paste. I can't believe you.
to be fair it could just be the kimchi I had that I didn't like, and I didn't have much of it when I was in Seoul the last few times, I always went straight for the cold noodles
one time I tried to order those cold noodles in like November and they were like "uh the weather is cold so we don't do that anymore" and I was all NO DAMMIT MAKE ME SOME PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZE and they totally did and then the next day I had a cold
i don't like to see the shape of the actual animal i'm eating
it's unnerving
yeah and this is a sentiment I see mainly from Americans and Canadians, not so much from other cultures
I don't completely understand it, but there you go
I think it may stem from stuff like cultural views of animals as food, as well as certain other countries (namely those in the east) and their lack of an option to be picky about their food
think about this, too: food allergies are more prevalent in the US and Canada than they are in any other part of the world
god I need to find a source for that info I know someone is going to ask for one
I know this was pages back, but I think it has less to do with being able to be picky about food and much more to do with how industrialized food production has become over the last century here. Increasingly, Americans are detached from where their food comes from. Aside from buying butchered meat and poultry, and even then deboned, skinned chicken is sold at a premium. Many Americans won't eat meat off the bone (ribs, chicken on the bone, etc). Intellectually Americans know that beef came from a cow, but the more you remind us that it came from an actual animal by leaving the bones in or skin on the more distasteful we tend to find it. I believe it's largely due to how relatively little cooking Americans tend to do compared to how often we either eat out or buy prepackaged meals like canned chili or frozen dinners.
I mean, you go to a public market in France and they'll have the head of the hog they just butchered out on display. It doesn't bother anyone and it's a sign that they butcher their own animals and that it's fresh. You try doing that most places in the states and most Americans would find it gross. It's also partly tied up with our tangled up views toward animal welfare and that fuzzy line between pets and food. Plenty of Americans that have no problem eating meat are ostensibly against animal cruelty, but if you actually kill the animal they're going to eat in front of them they will often blow a gasket and accuse you of being cruel. I remember watching a show where the guest was a local chef talking about how to cook Dungeness crab, and he had a live specimen with him. He lifted the crab over the pot, and the host and most of the audience gasped in horror because they thought he was going to kill the crab on camera. Yet the host and most of the audience would have gleefully eaten the cooked crab after the fact as long as they didn't have to watch it die. It's so bizarre.
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I believe I should be the sole arbiter in determining who gets the death penalty
first up - people in the USA who can't speak English
people in China who can't speak Chinese
people in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa who can't speak English
people in Russia who can't speak Russian
people in Hong Kong who can't speak Cantonese
people in Mexico or Spain who can't speak Spanish
people in Brazil or Portugal who can't speak Portuguese
people in France or half of Africa who can't speak French
people in the Netherlands who don't speak Dutch
people in Italy who don't speak Italian
people in Switzerland who don't speak French, German, Italian, or Romansch
people in Indonesia who can't speak Indonesia
people in Thailand who can't speak Thai
people in India who can't speak any dialect of Hindi
people in Iraq who can't speak South Azeri or Arabic
people in Israel who can't speak Hebrew (or I guess Yddish)
people in Singapore who can't speak Singlish
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malayasian is so tasty oh man
Red bean paste is a sort of comfort food for me. My grandfather eats buns with red bean paste in them because they're soft and he has bad teeth. He would give me one all the time when I was younger. Sadly now, his teeth are even more weak so they're too hard for him. Eats watered down red bean porridge.
others include shrimp dumplings/ha gow/xia jiao, pork dumplings/siu mye/shao mai, and chicken feet/fung tsao/feng jiao
oh sorry, I forgot to specify that these aren't steamed pork buns
those are sold separately
these are called steamed big buns
and they are in fact the shit
the pork must absolutely be that color
but I maintain that Cantonese desserts are so very good
mango pudding (or durian pudding if you're in Singapore!), almond milk, sago with coconut milk and mango and pomelo, oh my goddddddddd
also in Singapore and Malaysia they have "Ice Kacang" (pronounced ka-chang) which is basically a mountain of shaved ice sitting on a bed of red and green beans and then drowned in brightly-colored flavored syrup
kinda like a sno-cone but BIGGER, it's served in a massive dish
I'd always eat the ice and leave the beans
i shared with a friend and ours was also split and i also left the red bean
I AM BLAMING POOR PHOTO QUALITY
that shit is entirely too pink
GIS this: 叉烧包
yeah, you goddamn TWINKIE
In Korea we've got something similar. It's called pot-bing-soo. Pot means red bean paste. It's a pile of shaved ice with a little milk (or coconut milk or condensed milk) with red bean paste and some kind of powder made from what I think is a bean. But now they've gone more crazy and add a little cereal, little bits of rice cake, marshmallows, and lots of different kinds of fruit. So cooooold and fresh.
oh shit I totally remember that movie
wanna know what the title means?
it says, literally, "human flesh steamed pork buns"
Chinese doughnuts I think.
yes
THAT is the proper color for the bun
it should not be pink or bright red and if it is, you know they're using food coloring to tweak it
I have that issue up in Shanghai, where half the Cantonese steamed pork buns you find here are obviously manipulated in appearance with food coloring and they are just AWFUL
s'pretty good
and you yank a piece of the fruit off and dip it into ice water to solidify the caramel and then you eat it
it is so messy
but sweet lord that'll drop a diabetic in thirty seconds flat
Monkey Bread. Its like cinnmony sugary sweet bread thats all stuck together and you pull apart.
Yum yum.
I'm kidding. Let's all share a big bowl of bing. And then we can take turns drinking the left overs and giggle at how cute we are.
good lord I cannot stand the stuff
but one of my friends' dads in Hong Kong always has like two dozen in his freezer
if the count drops to below five he starts to get ornery
mango + sago + bits of pomelo with a splash of coconut milk
oh good god I could eat that all day
okay good night all
to be fair it could just be the kimchi I had that I didn't like, and I didn't have much of it when I was in Seoul the last few times, I always went straight for the cold noodles
one time I tried to order those cold noodles in like November and they were like "uh the weather is cold so we don't do that anymore" and I was all NO DAMMIT MAKE ME SOME PLEEEEEEEEEEEEZE and they totally did and then the next day I had a cold
I've never seen that at the ones I've been to. They do have this delicious beans and ice cream that is so goooood.
and so is mochi
the ice cream that's wrapped in a little dough skin?
YUM
Yes!
first up - people in the USA who can't speak English
Their love of pudding is quite hilarious
At least to me
by the by one of the best things that almost nobody ever serves that is by far and away the best japanese dish? okonomiyaki
I am getting so hot and bothered just thinking about it
I mean, you go to a public market in France and they'll have the head of the hog they just butchered out on display. It doesn't bother anyone and it's a sign that they butcher their own animals and that it's fresh. You try doing that most places in the states and most Americans would find it gross. It's also partly tied up with our tangled up views toward animal welfare and that fuzzy line between pets and food. Plenty of Americans that have no problem eating meat are ostensibly against animal cruelty, but if you actually kill the animal they're going to eat in front of them they will often blow a gasket and accuse you of being cruel. I remember watching a show where the guest was a local chef talking about how to cook Dungeness crab, and he had a live specimen with him. He lifted the crab over the pot, and the host and most of the audience gasped in horror because they thought he was going to kill the crab on camera. Yet the host and most of the audience would have gleefully eaten the cooked crab after the fact as long as they didn't have to watch it die. It's so bizarre.
people in China who can't speak Chinese
people in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa who can't speak English
people in Russia who can't speak Russian
people in Hong Kong who can't speak Cantonese
people in Mexico or Spain who can't speak Spanish
people in Brazil or Portugal who can't speak Portuguese
people in France or half of Africa who can't speak French
people in the Netherlands who don't speak Dutch
people in Italy who don't speak Italian
people in Switzerland who don't speak French, German, Italian, or Romansch
people in Indonesia who can't speak Indonesia
people in Thailand who can't speak Thai
people in India who can't speak any dialect of Hindi
people in Iraq who can't speak South Azeri or Arabic
people in Israel who can't speak Hebrew (or I guess Yddish)
people in Singapore who can't speak Singlish
...
that's a lot of people you're out to kill dude