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I had two jars in my fridge for a long time but over the summer my electricity went out for 3 days and I had to toss out everything in my whole fridge... That was a sad day as I had just recently discovered all the local Big Box Asian mkts and was nicely stocked up!

Good for you! But I wonder if you put the right kind of pickled ginger. Not gari but beni shouga. Gari, eaten with sushi, is sweet while beni shouga isn't. ← Yes, it was the red slivers. Beni Shoga. It doesnt matter if ones sweet and the other isnt, the sweetness of the onions and Im sure the sugar in the cooking seasoning (for lack of a better word) melded perfectly with the ginger and it was a delicious mix...MMMMM. The bowl looked like there wasnt a whole lot of meat in it, but there was.

I ate the Strawberry Omelet... It WAS cake with strawberry cream inside. It was YUMMY! No fakey taste at all... The Matcha Melonpan? I put it in the oven to crisp up the topping and the house filled up with a wet dog smell... I did not taste it, needless to say.

Hiroyuki? Im eating the Gyu Don! OMG its like tasting hot beef chirashizushi, because of the ginger! A bowl of heaven!

I LOVE mixed veggies with Shira-ae or Goma-ae.... I just tasted raw okra today, dipped in Goma-ae... YUMMY! Are there any more Japanese dressings for veggies I can make?

Kristin I just love these! A few chunks with anything is a welcome addition. Is this your personal recipe? Yesterday I made more, but forgot to soak em first, they taste the same. Whats up with the soaking first? I added more lemon, yum! I take it you are a sour fan... I am a huge lemon fan. I supreme lemons and add little bits of pure lemon to my tuna salad.

I dont live in Cali, but most stores carry "Light Cream"... Right next to the Heavy Cream and Half and Half...

Aside from the Matcha Melon Pan I bought yesterday I have never been able to find an actual Melon Pan... Being a single mom, its sometimes easier to use CookDo and buy frozen Karaage etc or think up shortcuts... Would frozen bread dough, perhaps fortified with extra butter and an eggyolk, and topped with some melon flavored Pillsbury readymade sugar cookie dough, be a good and easy facsimile? If not, has anyone been to Mitsuwa in Edgewater, NJ and if so do they have Melon Pan?

(Note: If this isnt appropriate then delete it, but I thought it would be fun) I always have alot of Japanese food stuffs at my house. Some make their way into other favorite recipes. Of course Soy Sauce and Sesame is widely used in lots of other non Japanese recipes and foods. What Japanese ingredients do you cook with or use in NON Japanese ways? Gari is one of those ingredients that I do other things with alot. This is what I make often with Gari Chicken Apple Salad w/ a Creamy Honey Ginger Dressing Dressing 1 6 ounce container Plain or Vanilla Yogurt 2-4 Tablespoons minced Gari (Pickled Sushi Ginger) 4 Tablespoons Honey Whisk the dressing, pour it over the following: 2-1/2 cups diced cooked chicken 3/4th diced Granny Smith Apple 3/4th diced Gala Apple 1/3 cup Roasted Chopped Almonds Mix and eat. YUMMMMMY!

Like that Surreal Gourmet dude on Food Tv?

BTW- Philadelphia cream cheese was invented in NYC, and was called "Philadelphia" cause at the time Philly was where all the Top Quality foods came from...

Okay I bought these two things yesterday.... Can anyone tell me what the omelet thing exactly IS? Does it have creme in it? Does it even have eggs in it? The English ingredients dont list eggs but those things are notoriously wrong...

I liked the mugicha I bought a few weeks ago. TO ME it tastes like that Celestial Seasonings tea "Roastaroma"

Sorry for "rewarming" the seasoned/unseasoned-rice discussion, but I was wondering about barachirashi「ばらちらし」. Is that dish a donburi? If yes, then it's one of the few with seasoned rice. ← OMG that looks yummy! http://www.davidphoto.ca/media/portraits/children/drool.jpg I bought Gyodon today but cant eat it until Im over this cold...

Im going to call Famima!! tomorrow and see if they can bring one to the King of Prussia area... Its got the largest retail mall in the country (Mall Of America is bigger ONLY cause it has hotels and amusements) and all the highways join up in that area... It is a prime area. Its commute city.

Im surprised that no one has mentioned El Sombrero in Avondale, Pa.. Groceries, Fresh made food (Including bags of fresh tamales) and still wam tortillas from their $1 Million Dollar machine! http://www.mytravelguide.com/restaurants/p..._Store_Inc.html

I am obsessed with the Combini at the moment! Combini and Ajinomoto Frozen Karaage!

Sushi For Thanksgiving?? http://sushiday.com/archives/2006/11/25/th...ving-leftovers/

By the way, has anyone heard that they are trying to bring the Japanese style Combini stateside? http://www.famima-usa.com/

Cool Beans! I found this cool YouTube video that someone made strolling through a Combini... The song is perfect! And this is a great site, great fun: http://www.konbini-life.com/ (Page 7, Pepsi Carnivale? the last paragraph is too funny for words!)

The Snyders lines are in every supermarket IVE been to and I live right outside of Philly. I dont see the specialty chips in 7-11 any longer though.. I must mention the Chocolate Covered Potato Chips from the oldest Chocolate Factory in the country. Ashers Chocolates in Souderton, Pa (1892) They are delicious.

I understand exactly what you mean by that... Its kinda like Giant vs. Genuardis. Genuardis has a lot of different things and variety but Giant (to me) is fresher. However, not naming names, BUT, I find that so many small Asian markets are filthy. I went to one in the basement of a building in Chinatown and the smell in that place was nauseating. I never feel that way in H-mart or Assi Plaza. Have you ever been to Assi Plaza? They have a ton of sauces... I stopped there one evening on the way home and it was a beautiful experience, as Korea was playing in the World Cup and they had a huge screen up in the mall area and satellite Tv playing the game on it and EVERYONE was dressed in red and united in cheers. I loved it.

Nothing. Just eat it without any seasoning. It's already seasoned enough. If you make karaage yourself and you find it bland, eat it with soy sauce. I once had it with yuzu koshou. It was good. Here is a lineup of their product. Scroll down and click any of the eight blue items. ← No, I didnt mean seasonings, I meant accompanying side dishes. Like is it more traditional to eat Karaage with rice or with noodles? Any veggies that compliment Karaage? I had mine with lemon and veggies with shira-ae and rice. Yummy.

But Kristin do you remember the rich chocolate cake recipe from Kraft in all the womens magazines that was made moist by a whole cup of Kraft Mayo? http://www.bitegeist.com/obsessions/2006/9...the-recipe.html

Okay Im trying the frozen Ajinomoto Kara-age tonight... What are some traditional things to eat it with? ETA: I loved the Karaage... Can someone PLEASE tell me what other frozen items Ajinomoto has?