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I think both my current mainlining of kdramas and actual, home-cooked Chinese food for Thanksgiving and Christmas have gotten me into an Asian comfort food kick.

Prior to that, I was on an American comfort food kick and craving mac and cheese, pie, casseroles, more pie, burgers, chocolate cream pie, corn dogs, and even more pie.

Currently, I have been eating a lot of ramen (my favorite is butter corn, sometimes sans butter); Chinese bentos with their wonderful sides of stir-fried cabbage, tea eggs, seaweed, and dofugan; zhajiangmien; garlicky pea shoots; chicken and salty fish fried rice; dumplings (pot stickers and boiled); and jook. I think if it weren't winter, I would also be craving pearl milk tea. Aaand now that I mention it, I want hot pearl milk tea and hot grass jelly, though all the places with hot grass jelly here aren't so great.

I also want but have not yet eaten: zhajiangmien, jjajangmyeon, Korean spicy tofu stew, bibimbap, onigiri and/or yaki onigiri, Japanese-style curry, my mom's spicy eggplant, beef noodle soup, onion pancakes, pa jun, okonomiyaki, tuna and corn crepes, pretty much any donburimono, and I wouldn't turn down pie either.

I keep meaning to write something about class and comfort food and race, but my brain is dead today. So instead, tell me what comfort food you have been craving lately!

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I guess I'm a wimp, but I can't deal with tripe! (That's OK, lots of people can't deal with the idea of corn meal mush with sour cream ... .) I was once ordering a seafood soup at a very new Korean restaurant in Fall Church (a long time ago - if it's still there, it's now a well-established Korean restaurant), and they kept trying to talk me out of it. It was seafood and vermicelli. It turns out that some fool had told them that "vermicelli" was what you called tripe in English.

(The Mr. ate it. He also eats chicken hearts. The waiters at the churrascaria in Rockville are always very impressed.)

You're not a wimp! I just eat lots of questionable stuff. I like eating gizzards and chicken hearts myself. I'm not too fond of cow tongue though.

Gizzard, adobo style, is another comfort food for me but I only eat my mom's since I don't quite trust myself to make it correctly.

Hee! I haven't actually had gizzard or chicken heart (at least, not that I know of), but I loooove grilled cow tongue. I used to be an incredibly picky eater when we first moved to Taiwan when I was around 8, but as I finally stopped trying to be only American (though I still love mac and cheese and chicken pot pie), I started eating the "weirder" stuff.

Would you believe I never had hamburger helper until college? My apartment-mate was so horrified by the thought that she made me some. lol!

Chicken pot pie! That's an American comfort food I like!

No way! ME TOO!!! One of my friends made me mac and cheese with some to introduce me. Meatloaf was another college introduction (though meatloaf made it really fast onto my comfort food list and hamburger helper never did, since I keep thinking it should be stir-fried ground pork, a la ma po tofu).

Hee! I think my mom once made meatloaf for me as a kid because I asked for it one night. The same goes for mac and cheese -- that was a popular dish at the birthday parties I went to as a kid so I never really felt like I was missing out.

But yeah, I grew up on corn beef hash out of a can sauteed with onions and mixed with white rice as the lazy person's meal so hamburger helper never stuck.

I need to try that some day -- two of my coworkers were talking about corned beef hash, and I don't think I've ever had it, much less sauteed with leftovers (my coworkers said that was the best way).

You know, I forgot about chicken pot pie on my list. But I think I just really like the crust. Heh.

The crust is really my favorite part too. Chicken pot pie's no good if the crust is gummy.

I like cow tongue in cold cut form, pickled like corned beef. :)

I will happily take your unwanted tripe! Mmmmm, tripe. :)

I love tripe! The more people who dislike tripe, the more there is for us!

I normally wouldn't eat tripe I don't think, but in the soup it works!

Hee, I eat tripe in all kinds of dishes!

I eat it in kare kare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kare-kare) and menudo, as the main meat.

I think I could try those. Lots of sauce :).

I don't like liver, brains, kidneys, or anything that tastes like it filters toxins though ;). Though I actually have tolerated chopped liver in my youth, as it was mixed with eggs. (It was a mainstay at the passover table.)

I had beef heart at a Peruvian restaurant and that was good. But, the heart is a muscle. Heh.

I can only eat liver after it's been marinated in wine or something that hides that thick, iron-y taste. :)