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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

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, presumably. I know that a lot of people say rice is hard to cook, and need to measure and have special pots. (I didn't know people had seperate pots to cook rice in... for a while. I was always something I found unneeded.)

And I have never used rice rise water for my face because we don't rise our rice. *blushes* Is that taboo?

And now that I know what pearl tea is, is sounds quite tasty.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's not taboo, you just get a little better flavor and texture if it's rinsed (and ideally soaked for an hour or so before cooking), but it's a very subtle sort of difference -- if I'm in a serious rush I won't always bother and it's still perfectly edible and tasty. :)

Mmmm, rice.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, home cooking. I really need to come over to your house sometime and get you to make me food.

Randomly, how did you get from Hawaii to DC? That's quite a huge shift in location.