noodles in chili sauce with soybeans ... not a dish you can have a lot of, texturally very bizarre but interesting nevertheless. And things that can be termed as old standbys in szechuan cuisine from these tired places you speak...

and it was strong but OK. Sort of a gelatinous, oozy soybean preparation at a sushi bar. very salty, and texture of snot. ugh. You guys are brave eating the live seafood!

) guava, etc.> SZECHUAN BEST, which I first visited w/ TonyC earlier this year <They’ve got three dishes currently vying for space on my Top Plates of 2007/8 list...steamed spareribs w/ yams, minced beef mapo tofu w/...

Maybe they can replace miso-shiru-with-tofu with boiled green soybeans.

milk, ginger tea) as well as barley drink, soybean drink, chrysanthymum tea drink, and “Milo Croissant Ice,” or iced Milo with no added sugar. Fruits are pretty unique in SE Asia. Durian is considered the King, while...

with fish (fish and soybean curd). The one major disappointment was probably the steamed spare ribs with 5-spice ground rice – I didn’t love the texture, and it was either bland, or the seasonings were too subtle to...

topping. My dad ended up doing some cooking later on in my life. He actually makes the best miso-glazed mackerel and Korean soybean paste casserole. As my dad was North Korean, I think I inherited his love for noodles (I prefer...

I would take you to tacos lupita for some yummy tortas and pupusas and since I am lazy I think I would just make you some really really good dwaengjang chigae (using actual homemade dwaengjang with the chunky soybeans) or some...

" I asked one of the guys bring stuff out of the kitchen. “Guobian...” Guobian something or rather. Guo1 means Pot, Bian1 means side. Good stuff. Then I saw someone eating the soft soybean curd in a similar type of...

or discuss openly. By the way, the town I went to school in had about 40-80,000 people at the time (depending on whether school was in or out). Once you left the city limits, it was pretty much soybean fields for 2 hours in every...

“How can you go wrong with ... broken-up soggy Nilla Wafers”? One way would be to swallow them. ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC...

with iceberg lettuce of all things, or with tomatoes in them (I love tomatoes, but they really don’t belong in Caesar salad) or with dressings that taste of soybean oil and sugar. It’s gotten to the point where if...

, and a sunny-side-up egg): dol sut bi bim bop is served with sesame oil in a sizzling hot stone pot; san chae bi bim bop is a vegetarian version. The kalbi (marinated beef short ribs) come surrounded with greens tossed in a...

out next time you’re around raw celery)! I’m also rather unlucky in that my allergies don’t stop there. In the past 8 years I’ve developed allergies to a number of fruit (raw only), peanuts, pistachios and...

Just to ease everyone’s mind, the ridgy ribbon is soybean curd sheets, the light yellow/golden vegetabel is actually a flower bud, that of a variety of tiger lilly, and the dark color thinkly sliced, crunchy threads that...