The endless food meme
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oyceterIt's about food! ^_^
What's the last thing you ate?
Trader Joe's dried cranberries. Yum. I like them because they aren't too sweet and sugary.
What's your favourite cheese?
Currently, boursin, because I like the clean goatiness of it (I know, doesn't that just boggle the mind) and the herbiness. I also have a thing for fontina right now.
What's your favourite fish?
Er. I really love tuna jaw (shioyaki style?), broiled or something with salt on the outside so it's crispy and salty, juicy on the inside, with tons and tons of lemon juice on top. Yummy.
Salmon and hirame (fluke? not sure) sashimi.
Lox.
Chinese steamed fish -- you know, topped with loads of green onions and ginger with soy sauce and oil poured over it.
What's your favourite fruit?
I adore all fruit! Except -- cantaloupe and honeydew. I love the loose-skinned oranges (ponkan?), Fuji apples so big you hold them in two hands and drip juice down to your elbows when you bite into them, slightly green mangoes, Chinese pears, cold watermelon. These in particular.
When, if ever, did you start liking olives?
I've always liked black olives, the kind that comes in a can and goes on pizza toppings. I still don't really like green ones. The boy introduced me to the wonderfulness of non-canned olives. My favorites right now are the little black ones soaked in herbs and oil. I love eating olives that are almost too briny for me and then sucking on the pit and enjoying the olivey aftertaste.
When, if ever, did you start liking beer?
I don't like beer at all. In general, I find I do not enjoy the taste of alcohol.
When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish?
Um. I think I always have. Right now I have a particular craving for shrimp (not scampi style, just fresh boiled or something), prawns and lobster. I like the texture when they're fresh and not sauteed, kind of creamy and chewy and fleshy.
What was the best thing your mum/dad/guardian used to make?
Mommy used to make great meatballs. And spring rolls. And eggplant. My particular favorites as a kid were her mushroom casserole and her corn soup. Right now I pretty much like everything.
What's the native specialty of your home town?
Gong wan and mi fun -- gong wan are these sort of meatballs made of fish, some with ground meat on the inside (I don't like these much), mi fun is rice noodles, the very skinny, clear ones. I really like these.
What's your comfort food?
Chinese food! A good, hot steaming bowl of noodles or a plain bento type thing with rice.
What's your favorite type of chocolate?
Milk. Because I'm boring. To spice it up a little -- hazelnut. I love those hazelnut truffle things.
How do you like your steak?
Medium rare because I like it rawish. Am barbaric in that way ;).
How do you like your burger?
Medium and very juicy and very big. Preferrably with tons of stuff on top, particularly mushrooms, sauteed onions and ketchup.
How do you like your eggs?
Steamed. I actually don't like cooked eggs that much... although I do like them scrambled with green onions. And I like soft boiled eggs, which the boy introduced me too (it's the egg cups!).
How do you like your potatoes?
With flavor? I like potatoes a lot. Mashed, yum. Usually I like them cooked enough so they're mealy and not crunchy.
How do you take your coffee?
With tons and tons of sugar. In general, stuff like mochas are right up my alley.
How do you take your tea?
Chinese tea, plain -- I brought a non-Chinese friend to a Chinese restaurant once and she dumped sugar in her tea and the waiter laughed.
Western tea, with sugar and lemon. Or ooo, the best kind is with so much lemon it puckers my throat with so much honey that it soothes it again right away. Yuummmy. Actually, I could just have that in hot water without the tea too ;).
What's your favourite mug?
I actually don't have one... huh. I just scrounge for what's there.
What's your biscuit or cookie of choice?
Snickerdoodles! Sweet enough to be satisfying but not too rich. Either that, or mint Milanos. Yummy.
What's your ideal breakfast?
Lunch.
Ok, or waffles with honey. And coffee. Never forget coffee.
Or Chinese style breakfast with rice porridge and salty egg and that weird dried meat stuff.
Or Japanese style breakfast with miso soup.
Usually I like salty things for breakfast. Sweet breakfast foods are more like snack food for me.
What's your ideal sandwich?
Right now, brie, turkey, herb mayo, bacon on foccacia or other herby bread.
Or cream cheese and lox on a baguette.
What's your ideal pizza (topping and base)?
Pesto sauce (I don't like marinara) and parmesan. Garlic can be added as well.
Or -- tuna and corn pizza. Yum! Really!
What's your ideal pie (sweet or savory)?
Sweet -- apple.
Savory -- any of those meat pies.
What's your ideal salad?
The best one I've had was butter lettuce, crispy duck, blueberry vinaigrette and a sharp cheese.
Less fancy: baby spinach salad, slightly heated, with balsalmic vinaigrette and mushrooms and tomatoes and ham.
What food do you always like to have in the fridge?
Fruit and bread and good cheese(technically not the fridge).
What food do you always like to have in the freezer?
Dumplings and other assorted bao zi type stuff.
What food do you always like to have in the cupboard?
Honey, Pocky, roasted chestnuts, dried mango, dried cranberries, and those little Chinese pastries with bean jam.
What spices can you not live without?
I don't know... I don't use that many. Does garlic count?
What sauces can you not live without?
Soy sauce. Second to that, oyster sauce.
Where do you buy most of your food?
Safeway, Milk Pail (local open-air market), and various Chinese supermarkets.
How often do you go food shopping?
Maybe once a week, depending on enthusiasm for cooking.
What's the most you've spent on a single food item?
I don't actually remember... Maybe 14 some for cheese?
What's the most expensive piece of kitchen equipment you own (excluding 'white goods')?
The really nice knives my mom bought me.
What's the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen?
I think it was a lid for my wok...
What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without?
Wok.
How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients?
About once or twice a week I think...
What's the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients?
Possibly spinach salad? I've been living off leftovers for a while, and my mom was here and cooked for me.
What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig and poultry?
Shellfish, lots of fish, snake, shark, eel, jellyfish, snails, frog, venison, alligator, buffalo, elk, rabbit, lamb, ostrich, quail, pigeon, squab (I didn't know if that was in poultry... I am just listing exotic stuffs).
What's the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor?
Most likely when I was eating the cranberries.
What's the last time you ate something you'd picked in the wild?
Cherries in Hokkaido, three years ago.
Place in order of preference (greatest to least):
Chinese, Sushi, French, Thai, Indian, Italian
Although I actually like them all. And it depends on mood. Except for the Chinese food.
Place in order of preference:
Whisky, Tequila, Dark Rum, Light Rum, Gin, Vodka, Brandy,
Ok, I have no idea because I haven't had most of these.
Vodka. Then the other stuff.
Place in order of preference:
Garlic, Caramel, Ginger, Lime, Basil, Mint, Aniseed (what's aniseed?)
Place in order of preference:
Apple, Orange, Watermelon, Cherry, Strawberry, Pineapple, Banana
Place in order of preference:
Internet, Food, Fashion, Sex, Music, Sport
Hee, something I like better than food!
Bread and spread:
Fresh bread, crusty on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, with butter or olive oil.
Herb bread with olive oil.
Olive bread, by itself.
What's your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order?
Taco Bell, soft tacos.
Pick a city. What are the three best dining experiences you've had in that city?
Prepare to be spammed! I eat out a lot and am a bit of a er... pig. Hee. I can't help it! My dad did this to me! (His descriptions of places he goes generally are: and I stayed at this hotel and ate at this restaurant -- rates it, remembers the wine)
Tokyo: crepes on the corner of Harajuku, watching all the fashionable Japanese teens go by. An extremely fancy dinner in the Park Hyatt and my first exposure to really fancy Japanese food. Oyakodon with salmon sashimi and roe in this dark little niche of a restaurant.
Kanazawa: The curry house! The bakery at the train station with all the wonderful breads. My host mom's really, really good cooking. And technically not dining, but tuna, cream cheese, and pizza sauce crepes.
Paris: splitting main courses with my family -- first real French food in France (and probably looking horrible, but sampling everything!). Lox and cream cheese baguettes on the steps of the Notre Dame. I can't remember a third.
Taipei: too many to count ;). Stuffing myself at Ding Tai Fong. New Year's Eve at my uncle's house this year. The little place next to my aunt's house that has the best noodles.
Hsinchu: too many to count ;).
Princeton: Wa mac and cheese at four in the morning after a night on the Street. Chuck's buffalo wings. And the really incredibly good sashimi at Ajihei's.
Hong Kong: Brazilian food with the boy -- you pick two main courses and three appetizers and they're all tiny and it's awesome because you can try everything! Shanghai food, just about everywhere. And the dim sum. Mmmmmmm. I ate so much in Hong Kong, thanks to the ibanking dinner expense option.
New York: Grey's Papaya with my family. This Japanese restaurant on 50th, between 7th and 8th (East? Or West? Some cardinal direction). Afternoon tea at the Pierre (free because they didn't have our room ready!)
London: Chinese food in Chinatown after my whole family was incredibly homesick. Afternoon tea at Harrod's. And the weird mango, avocado and chicken sandwiches they sold at Boots.
Bay Area: Bistro Elan, multiple times. Peking duck at Mandarin Gourmet (and trying to convince Lin Ahyi that I should treat her). I give up for this one... I eat out way too much here with the ahyis and my mom and the boy and they are all good experiences. Fattening, but good.
What's your choice of tipple at the end of a long day?
Er. Water?
What's the next thing you'll eat?
Cinnamon bun, hopefully.
What's the last thing you ate?
Trader Joe's dried cranberries. Yum. I like them because they aren't too sweet and sugary.
What's your favourite cheese?
Currently, boursin, because I like the clean goatiness of it (I know, doesn't that just boggle the mind) and the herbiness. I also have a thing for fontina right now.
What's your favourite fish?
Er. I really love tuna jaw (shioyaki style?), broiled or something with salt on the outside so it's crispy and salty, juicy on the inside, with tons and tons of lemon juice on top. Yummy.
Salmon and hirame (fluke? not sure) sashimi.
Lox.
Chinese steamed fish -- you know, topped with loads of green onions and ginger with soy sauce and oil poured over it.
What's your favourite fruit?
I adore all fruit! Except -- cantaloupe and honeydew. I love the loose-skinned oranges (ponkan?), Fuji apples so big you hold them in two hands and drip juice down to your elbows when you bite into them, slightly green mangoes, Chinese pears, cold watermelon. These in particular.
When, if ever, did you start liking olives?
I've always liked black olives, the kind that comes in a can and goes on pizza toppings. I still don't really like green ones. The boy introduced me to the wonderfulness of non-canned olives. My favorites right now are the little black ones soaked in herbs and oil. I love eating olives that are almost too briny for me and then sucking on the pit and enjoying the olivey aftertaste.
When, if ever, did you start liking beer?
I don't like beer at all. In general, I find I do not enjoy the taste of alcohol.
When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish?
Um. I think I always have. Right now I have a particular craving for shrimp (not scampi style, just fresh boiled or something), prawns and lobster. I like the texture when they're fresh and not sauteed, kind of creamy and chewy and fleshy.
What was the best thing your mum/dad/guardian used to make?
Mommy used to make great meatballs. And spring rolls. And eggplant. My particular favorites as a kid were her mushroom casserole and her corn soup. Right now I pretty much like everything.
What's the native specialty of your home town?
Gong wan and mi fun -- gong wan are these sort of meatballs made of fish, some with ground meat on the inside (I don't like these much), mi fun is rice noodles, the very skinny, clear ones. I really like these.
What's your comfort food?
Chinese food! A good, hot steaming bowl of noodles or a plain bento type thing with rice.
What's your favorite type of chocolate?
Milk. Because I'm boring. To spice it up a little -- hazelnut. I love those hazelnut truffle things.
How do you like your steak?
Medium rare because I like it rawish. Am barbaric in that way ;).
How do you like your burger?
Medium and very juicy and very big. Preferrably with tons of stuff on top, particularly mushrooms, sauteed onions and ketchup.
How do you like your eggs?
Steamed. I actually don't like cooked eggs that much... although I do like them scrambled with green onions. And I like soft boiled eggs, which the boy introduced me too (it's the egg cups!).
How do you like your potatoes?
With flavor? I like potatoes a lot. Mashed, yum. Usually I like them cooked enough so they're mealy and not crunchy.
How do you take your coffee?
With tons and tons of sugar. In general, stuff like mochas are right up my alley.
How do you take your tea?
Chinese tea, plain -- I brought a non-Chinese friend to a Chinese restaurant once and she dumped sugar in her tea and the waiter laughed.
Western tea, with sugar and lemon. Or ooo, the best kind is with so much lemon it puckers my throat with so much honey that it soothes it again right away. Yuummmy. Actually, I could just have that in hot water without the tea too ;).
What's your favourite mug?
I actually don't have one... huh. I just scrounge for what's there.
What's your biscuit or cookie of choice?
Snickerdoodles! Sweet enough to be satisfying but not too rich. Either that, or mint Milanos. Yummy.
What's your ideal breakfast?
Lunch.
Ok, or waffles with honey. And coffee. Never forget coffee.
Or Chinese style breakfast with rice porridge and salty egg and that weird dried meat stuff.
Or Japanese style breakfast with miso soup.
Usually I like salty things for breakfast. Sweet breakfast foods are more like snack food for me.
What's your ideal sandwich?
Right now, brie, turkey, herb mayo, bacon on foccacia or other herby bread.
Or cream cheese and lox on a baguette.
What's your ideal pizza (topping and base)?
Pesto sauce (I don't like marinara) and parmesan. Garlic can be added as well.
Or -- tuna and corn pizza. Yum! Really!
What's your ideal pie (sweet or savory)?
Sweet -- apple.
Savory -- any of those meat pies.
What's your ideal salad?
The best one I've had was butter lettuce, crispy duck, blueberry vinaigrette and a sharp cheese.
Less fancy: baby spinach salad, slightly heated, with balsalmic vinaigrette and mushrooms and tomatoes and ham.
What food do you always like to have in the fridge?
Fruit and bread and good cheese(technically not the fridge).
What food do you always like to have in the freezer?
Dumplings and other assorted bao zi type stuff.
What food do you always like to have in the cupboard?
Honey, Pocky, roasted chestnuts, dried mango, dried cranberries, and those little Chinese pastries with bean jam.
What spices can you not live without?
I don't know... I don't use that many. Does garlic count?
What sauces can you not live without?
Soy sauce. Second to that, oyster sauce.
Where do you buy most of your food?
Safeway, Milk Pail (local open-air market), and various Chinese supermarkets.
How often do you go food shopping?
Maybe once a week, depending on enthusiasm for cooking.
What's the most you've spent on a single food item?
I don't actually remember... Maybe 14 some for cheese?
What's the most expensive piece of kitchen equipment you own (excluding 'white goods')?
The really nice knives my mom bought me.
What's the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen?
I think it was a lid for my wok...
What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without?
Wok.
How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients?
About once or twice a week I think...
What's the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients?
Possibly spinach salad? I've been living off leftovers for a while, and my mom was here and cooked for me.
What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig and poultry?
Shellfish, lots of fish, snake, shark, eel, jellyfish, snails, frog, venison, alligator, buffalo, elk, rabbit, lamb, ostrich, quail, pigeon, squab (I didn't know if that was in poultry... I am just listing exotic stuffs).
What's the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor?
Most likely when I was eating the cranberries.
What's the last time you ate something you'd picked in the wild?
Cherries in Hokkaido, three years ago.
Place in order of preference (greatest to least):
Chinese, Sushi, French, Thai, Indian, Italian
Although I actually like them all. And it depends on mood. Except for the Chinese food.
Place in order of preference:
Whisky, Tequila, Dark Rum, Light Rum, Gin, Vodka, Brandy,
Ok, I have no idea because I haven't had most of these.
Vodka. Then the other stuff.
Place in order of preference:
Garlic, Caramel, Ginger, Lime, Basil, Mint, Aniseed (what's aniseed?)
Place in order of preference:
Apple, Orange, Watermelon, Cherry, Strawberry, Pineapple, Banana
Place in order of preference:
Internet, Food, Fashion, Sex, Music, Sport
Hee, something I like better than food!
Bread and spread:
Fresh bread, crusty on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside, with butter or olive oil.
Herb bread with olive oil.
Olive bread, by itself.
What's your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order?
Taco Bell, soft tacos.
Pick a city. What are the three best dining experiences you've had in that city?
Prepare to be spammed! I eat out a lot and am a bit of a er... pig. Hee. I can't help it! My dad did this to me! (His descriptions of places he goes generally are: and I stayed at this hotel and ate at this restaurant -- rates it, remembers the wine)
Tokyo: crepes on the corner of Harajuku, watching all the fashionable Japanese teens go by. An extremely fancy dinner in the Park Hyatt and my first exposure to really fancy Japanese food. Oyakodon with salmon sashimi and roe in this dark little niche of a restaurant.
Kanazawa: The curry house! The bakery at the train station with all the wonderful breads. My host mom's really, really good cooking. And technically not dining, but tuna, cream cheese, and pizza sauce crepes.
Paris: splitting main courses with my family -- first real French food in France (and probably looking horrible, but sampling everything!). Lox and cream cheese baguettes on the steps of the Notre Dame. I can't remember a third.
Taipei: too many to count ;). Stuffing myself at Ding Tai Fong. New Year's Eve at my uncle's house this year. The little place next to my aunt's house that has the best noodles.
Hsinchu: too many to count ;).
Princeton: Wa mac and cheese at four in the morning after a night on the Street. Chuck's buffalo wings. And the really incredibly good sashimi at Ajihei's.
Hong Kong: Brazilian food with the boy -- you pick two main courses and three appetizers and they're all tiny and it's awesome because you can try everything! Shanghai food, just about everywhere. And the dim sum. Mmmmmmm. I ate so much in Hong Kong, thanks to the ibanking dinner expense option.
New York: Grey's Papaya with my family. This Japanese restaurant on 50th, between 7th and 8th (East? Or West? Some cardinal direction). Afternoon tea at the Pierre (free because they didn't have our room ready!)
London: Chinese food in Chinatown after my whole family was incredibly homesick. Afternoon tea at Harrod's. And the weird mango, avocado and chicken sandwiches they sold at Boots.
Bay Area: Bistro Elan, multiple times. Peking duck at Mandarin Gourmet (and trying to convince Lin Ahyi that I should treat her). I give up for this one... I eat out way too much here with the ahyis and my mom and the boy and they are all good experiences. Fattening, but good.
What's your choice of tipple at the end of a long day?
Er. Water?
What's the next thing you'll eat?
Cinnamon bun, hopefully.
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Wed, Mar. 24th, 2004 05:23 am (UTC)Yum.
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Wed, Mar. 24th, 2004 08:25 pm (UTC)This is good.. generally people run the other way when they hear what I eat ;).