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牛肉豆芽炒粉 (niú ròu dòu yá chǎo fěn), beef and beansprout fried rice noodles. Nicely spicy。

I appreciate the help.

I honestly don't know. I can read every word and none say it's koji. Sorry

amazon sold it to me as koji maybe it isn't?

Bizarre. I can't work out what that is. It mentions shio (salt) but I cant see the word koji anywhere on the container. It does however say it's for grilled food, simmered food, Japanese food, stir fried food. Sorry.

Today’s late lunch was a fast food burger - rather a curiosity for me. I don’t do fast food much except for road trips and airports and even then, I look for other options. But this morning, the local news informed me that today was National Cheeseburger Day. Who knew? They featured some great looking burgers. None were from spots in my area but they got me in a burger mood so after running a bunch of errands, I remembered a USA Today poll that picked a Habit Burger as the best fast food burger. A low hurdle, to be sure, but I’ve never had one and figured I might as well observe the national day so I got a double char with cheese from Habit. Two chargrilled burgers, caramelized onions, lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayo, and cheese on a toasted bun: Not bad. Too heavy on the mayo but the charred flavor is detectable. I’d prefer a bigger burger that could take more char vs the two stacked patties but I was pretty hungry and it wasn’t bad at all. Lettuce was fresh, tomato tasted like one. The most embarrassing part is that my errands included picking up my weekly fish share (live, local oysters) and the local farmers market where I chose two varieties of passion fruit to make a mignionette for the oysters and I still stopped off for a fast food burger 🙈🙈🙈

Previous conversation Doesn't look like any of us actually tried it then, but there are more links to articles.

here it is

There is certainly a sweet koji (甘い麹 - amai koji). It does not contain sugar but the sweetness comes from the processing of the rice turning the starch into glucose. Maybe that's what you accidentally bought.

In my hands, I put the meat in a ziploc with a tbsp of soy and a tbsp of Red Boat 40. I put it in the fridge and turn it occasionally for a few hours. Brother @rotuts may have improvements.

How does this work?

So I cut two chunks off of a flat iron steak. One was marinated/incubated with koji for 4 hours. I chopped off the end of the untreated steak for identification purposes. The stuff looked like baby barf, a viscous liquid filled with rice fragments. Left steak is koji treated. It darkened like it was treated with sugar although the label on the koji had no sugar listed. The taste was sweet too. The promised funk in the meat was barely detectable. Unless I made some big mistake in method or choice of koji (certainly possible), I can't imagine using koji again. I get a much tastier speed-age with @rotuts Red Boat and soy and none of the sweetness.

No photos. Went to a local sports bar where an old friend tends bar. Had a couple of glasses of wine and a pork tenderloin sandwich with tots--all scratch made to order. Fatty, dreadfully unhealthy and delicious. And I have enough leftovers for 2 more meals.

Ah. A hidden vice. 🙂

And there lies a major difference. Most people here shop for vegetables daily and never trouble their fridges. (Anyway, there would be no difficulty in cutting it into sections to refrigerate.)

五仁月饼 (wǔ rén yuè bǐng), five nut mooncake. This one, I would eat.

Maltitol is much better for dogs.

Chicken masala leftovers. As with many complex dishes, this was even better the next day.

Every year I have a few of THESE sent to the US from Malaysia. This year is particularly challenging with new tariff and shipping rules changes. Two years ago every one of them had a finger pressed in - later we learned that was the FDA/USDA? shoving a finger to prove there was no egg yolk inside, which is illegal. I find hers to be gorgeous, interesting but not out there flavors, and actually enjoyable versus the more traditional Cantonese style. [ETA for my poor sentence structure - salted yolk filling is illegal to ship in without prior approval, not shoving a finger in my mooncakes. That's perfectly legal. :)]

That looks great!

Slavery-free would be a more notable advancement for Hershey's. But as for sweeteners, Guittard and Callebaut sugar free both use maltitol.

sure. They are going to notify me when back in stock, I will let you know.

Little potatoes here, too, in this kinda artsy fartsy smoked trout, eggs & keta (salmon roe) with sour cream dressing from Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavours by Diana Henry I thought this was just delightful in looks and taste. The potatoes, greens and trout are all dressed in a simple vinaigrette with a separate sour cream/Dijon/lemon juice dressing drizzled on top. I used a mix of little red, white and purple potatoes with more arugula and less olive oil than in the recipe.

Lemon and garlic marinated chicken with mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli

I’ve never seen anything like that here and the size is almost intimidating. I’d need a much larger refrigerator!! 😜