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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

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Egg Fou Yong. If I knew how to make it and had any faith in my ability to make it right, I'd so be having it all the time.

And oh, how hungry this post made me.

[oyceter]

Ok, this is really silly of me, but I actually have no idea what egg fou yong is...?

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

Mostly I want my mom to cook for me. Which is so childish, I know, but I don't know how to cook the things she cooks! And some of them are nonstandard (due to years of living in the U.S.), so I wouldn't be able to find them in a Korean restaurant.

I am craving apple crumble something fierce, but Joe will yell at me if I bake some, so.

I miss Texas barbecue and the gumbo I used to get at Luby's Cafeteria and tonkatsu.

[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 know what you mean! We made some of my mom's stuff for Christmas, but it was still not the same.

Ooooo gumbo! And tonkatsu! I love tonkatsu, but especially the sauce, which I will eat with french fries and the turnip cakes you get at dim sum.

[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.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Great. Thanks. Now I want jook and pearl milk tea. And I don't know where to go to get jook around here, and I really shouldn't have anything milky because milk produces mucus, and I'm full up on that right now thanks.

Nothing has tasted like anything for a week because I've been sick, so I've been scrounging whatever requires no effort when my stomach lets me know I'd better eat something. This means I've been eating a lot of plain, untoasted slices of bread. Today I went out and bought some brussels sprouts. I have a desperate need to eat something green.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I's an egg omelette with meat, onions and bean sprouts(though I usually ask for it without those) smothered in brown sauce.

[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.

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

...your posts make me so hungry, I swear. And I don't even know what most of those things are, esp. since the Chinese restaurants around here all carefully westernize the food names even when they're on the authentic side (which isn't that often, alas).

I always crave crepes. And dumplings. But I don't know if I have specific comfort foods at all, weirdly. :/

[oyceter]

Ohhh ok, thanks!

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Now I want pie! ~.^ My current comfort food cravings are: baked zuchinni sticks, popcorn, cobbler, hash browns (I've been eating tons of hashbrowns), bacon, and cinnamon sugar toast.

Oh, I love Korean spicy tofu stew--the one that is like really rich broth with tons of kimchee, heated in a hot pot? I get that when I visit my brother. Mmmmm.

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

I had a *huge* craving the other day for pad siew with tofu. This was easily dealt with, since there's an okay Thai restaurant between the train station and my apartment.

Oh, and Chex party mix. Real, home-made Chex party mix, not the stuff they sell in bags in the chip aisle. I made some of that last weekend and ate the entire tub. And I still want some.

You've also given me a huge craving for Korean food, and there is no Korean restaurant near me. Wah.

[oyceter]

If it helps, I'm also starving just from posting?

Eep, I hate being sick. My stomach was acting up yesterday too, and I couldn't eat anything except white rice, argh.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Brownies! Pepsi! Apple pie! (Warm with the crumbly, sugary top) And even lasagna. Too bad I gave up pop for new years (it makes me sick anyway) and I am trying not to go overboard on desserts either. Also, I don't even like cupcakes, but reading this (http://www.cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/) blog makes me crave them!

[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.

[oyceter]

I know... I am sitting in the office and trying not to fantasize about when I can get out and have dinner.

Ooo, feel free to ask about what you don't know!

I have entirely too many specific comfort foods, and I only seem to acquire more with time...

[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...

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe anyone can miss anything from a Luby's! Really?

[oyceter]

You are the one who is to blame with my current obsession over chocolate cream pie! I even got my sister addicted to it, and both of us haven't had it since... I dunno, early childhood?

Oooo cinnamon sugar toast. My ex taught me about that, and it is so good.

Yes to the stew! With those super soft chunks of tofu floating everywhere.

[oyceter]

I have been hitting Yelp for the past two hours trying to figure out where the good Korean places around me are!

Ooo Chex mix. I have heard of its incredible powers, but never actually had homemade!

[oyceter]

OMG I had the best cupcakes ever over Christmas! I need to make my sister send me the pictures she took of them. They were so incredibly cute.

[heresluck]

Now *I* want bibimbap. ::shakes fist weakly in your direction::

Just last night I made a batch of squash-leek curry, which has been my favorite comfort food since about 2007. I made chili and cornbread a week or so ago, and will probably make pozole rojo and/or a root vegetable stew this weekend. Subzero weather = made for stew. And possibly brownies. Yum.

[chomiji]

My late Mom's mushroom-barley soup!

Or duck bone soup from Peking Gourmet Inn .... .

Baked cup custard, with nutmeg on top.

[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.