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Thursday, October 28, 2004

Japanese Okashi (snacks)

Did I mention that I got a thing against sweet stuff?

Hate the way the sugar just sticks to my teeth and corrode my taste buds.

I do eat dessert, but only when I`m really stressed and need to vent my frustrations. As I torture myself with exceedingly sweet food, my mood just gets increasingly worse until I`m finally exhausted and have no energy to mantain my angry mood.

Another way to get me to eat sweet stuff is if the food belongs in my category of `strange food`. Then I might consider a masochistic consumption of the item.

I saw the adorable green rotund bun sitting serenely in a corner on the pastry shelf and decided to get acquainted with it.

Its speckled green outfit just sets it apart from the rest and I was highly interested in learning more about this unusual little thing.

So I grabbed it, cuddled it in my palms and joyfully escorted it out of the supermarket (I paid for it, in case you`re wondering).

It didn`t disappoint me.

Its appearance speaks of new things to come and I was overwhelmed by the strangeness of its taste.

Grass. The taste of grass just floods my mouth. (Believe me, I know how grass tastes coz I chewed on them before.) And it was bulging with sweetened red bean filling.

I nearly died.

I really am not doing justice to this snack here.

Truely, it is nice. It`s just that my prejudice against sweet stuff just numbed my senses to any other overtures of the pleasant green okashi. Not to mention its brown companion who followed us out of the supermarket.

I decided to end my ordeal after forcing down half of the 2nd bun. One and a half sweetened red-bean stuffed Japanese buns are enough to kill all my taste buds.

I needed to recuperate and decided to head back to my dorm for some good`ol instant noodles.

Carol blogged @ 9:09 PM

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Female
Dog year
Pisces

Now in:
X America
X Australia
X Japan
0 Singapore
X Taiwan
X other parts of the world
X bed

Fav:
Travel, photography, eat strange food, getting lost, jogging, staring at the sky, reading, real-life ghost acounts, spacing out, zzZ!

Warning: Never disturb her just before and after sleep, NEVER.

About life... :
Live without any regrets.

My rules:
LIVE hard, appreciate little things and be contented with what you receive.

Food that I`ve tried so far:

abalone, ants, bird's nest, caterpillar, century egg, chicken, clam, crab, crocodile, duck, eel, emu, fermented tofu, frog, fugu (puffer fish), ginseng, goose, grass, horse, jellyfish, kangeroo, limpets, lobster, mussel, natto, octopus, ostrich, ox tongue, oyster, pig, prawn, salmon, salted duck egg, scorpion, sea cucumber, seaweed, shark, shrimp, snails, sparrow, squid, stingray, tuna, turtle, venison, whale

apple, aronia berry, artichoke, avocado, banana, blackberry, blueberry, cherry, coconut, cranberry, dates, dragonfruit, durian, fig, gooseberry, grape, grapefruit, guava, honeydew, jackfruit, kiwi, lemon, lime, mango, mangosteen, nectarine, olive, orange, passionfruit, peach, pear, pineapple, plum, pomegranate, prune, rambutan, raspberry, sago, soursop, starfruit, strawberry, watermelon, wintermelon, wolfberry

almond, broadbean, caraway seed, cashew nut, chick peas, flax seed, green bean, lotus seed, macademia nuts, peanut, pecan, peppercorn, pine nuts, pistachio, poppy seed, pumpkin seed, red bean, sesame seed, soyabean, sunflower seeds, walnut, watermelon seed

chamomile, cherry blossom, chrysanthemum, echinacea, elderberry flower, hibiscus, lavender, lily, lotus, rose

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