Let’s talk about my trip to the MT Asian Supermarket. That place is like nirvana. Walking in the door, first thing I see is a desert that looks like a bar of soap, "Soft Sweet Rice Cake."
Luckily it didn’t taste like soap. It just tasted like a sweet wad of gooey rice.
I took the opportunity to buy a pound of bacon pork, only two bucks at the butcher’s counter!
My attempt to stew it into a fatty pile of tender pork filaments went poorly. I’m guessing to get the proper texture I would have to stew it all day.
At a completely different Asian grocery I visited recently (yes I visit Asian groceries a lot), I bought a cheap dried pollack snack.
Imagine if melba-toast were made out of fish. The cat liked it. And heck, I liked it too, but after it sat out for a day and stopped being crispy it lost it’s edge.
I also found this "Squeez" ice cream bulb. The ice cream is a hard, frozen ball inside the foil packet, and then you melt it in your hands and suck out the mushy ice cream through the nozzle.
This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever had. I’m going to eat it every day. It’s like having a milkshake in space.
I had another cold-treat sucking experience at a Mexican grocery. This frozen treat was eggnog flavored!
If Christmas came in July, it would taste exactly like this.
These fried wheat pellets are duros, but by another name and shape.
That is to say that they are greesy and crisp. And what else would you want from a snack?
At a taco cart near Cameron and Capitol Plaza, I got this taco lengua. I’ve been putting off getting the tongue meat. I just didn’t want to be that guy who gets the weird organ-product. But considering that I’d been eating head meat this entire time, I suppose it doesn’t matter.
Of course it was tender and delicious. And it did indeed have the distinctive tongue flavor.
There’s a Tex-Mex restaurant near the end of my block. It’s one of those places that charges ten bucks for nachos. And everything is deep-fried. I’m beginning to realize that Tex-Mex is to Mexican food as chow mein is to Chinese.
Here’s some of the leftovers. The nachos are wedge-cut tostadas that have been hand-smeared with refried beans and baked with cheese.
The cylinder is a "Mexican eggroll." What exactly makes it Mexican you might ask? Why it’s filled with taco meat instead of anything that could be construed as a vegetable.
And then it’s deep-fried.
With my food-frakking deputy Julia, we got some Vietnamese sandwiches from Tam Deli. It’s the sort of food you would get if you combined the technology of French bread with the vivid daring of South East Asia. Here my food frakker deputy displays her calimari sandwich.
