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[oyceter]

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!

Comments

[vee-fic.livejournal.com]

Ooh, hot pearl tea. I've had plenty of iced (and I like the pearls a little bit sweetened), but never hot. I made homemade chai the other day, and right before I went to add the cream realized it had gone over, and was Very Disappointed. (And just drank the chai black. It was still good, but not milky.)

Now that you're mentioning it, I desperately want some pho. There are a couple of nice old-school places in the area that make it, and it's like $5 for a bowl as big as your head, and I always get the tripe (n.b. this is the only way I will eat tripe) and it's so satisfying. And I don't know how to make it at home -- I gather it takes like six hours, anyway -- so to get it I will have to go out. Which means, not tonight.

[oyceter]

I love it hot! It makes the pearls really soft and chewy, and they don't get hard from the cold too. The only problem is I always try to drink it too fast and burn my tongue.

Oh! I forgot pho on my list! I have gone out for it two or three times already because I want it so much! I love the soup and the noodles and the sprouts you dump in and the lime.

[vee-fic.livejournal.com]

Yes! Putting it together yourself is the fun part. And, considering I call it comfort food now, it's kind of ironic that I wasn't introduced to it till I was 23. A classmate took me out to where her boyfriend had taken her and showed me how, and did the thing with Thai iced coffee where you pour in your own sugar syrup and your own cream and then put a saucer over the top of the glass and shake it hard, once.

The iced coffee I can take or leave, but the hot beef broth, and the basil leaves, and the clear noodles...

[oyceter]

Hey, as you can tell by my list, I am a fan of comfort food coming from all parts and times of your life. I've, uh, actually only had jjajangmyeon and okonomiyaki once and pa jun a handful of times, but they totally hit the noodle-y, starch-y bits that I think of as comfort food.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Pho! I miss going to Pho Pasteur in Harvard Square. *sob* I'm sure there's Vietnamese in the L.A. area somewhere, I just don't know where.

[oyceter]

There has to be great Vietnamese in LA! Then again, I am confident in LA's ability to have some of the best Asian food in the US.