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Mystery Ingredients


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2 hours ago, DiggingDogFarm said:

#1 Dried intestines.

 

No. It is vegetable.

 

2 hours ago, robirdstx said:

Photo number one reminds me of what my orchids air roots look like when they dry out. Is it dried air roots?


Not air roots, either

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Number 1 reminds my an awful lot of what the poor, dead vines of my winter squash plants look like after the squash vine borers got through with them. But i won't even put those in my compost much less in my kitchen! So, not.

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#3 looks very similar to the dried lemongrass sold in the SE Asian market here in long bunches. 

 

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Oh dear!

 

Someone has got the correct answer for one of the pictures, but applied that answer to the wrong picture.

 

I'm not saying who just yet. :B

 

1 hour ago, andiesenji said:

#3 looks very similar to the dried lemongrass sold in the SE Asian market here in long bunches. 

 

 

Not lemongrass, no.

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OK - i really think that number 1 is the dried long beans . (I would not have gotten this without the hints.:P) (With the hints I can actually see it. It does resemble the dried beans in my garden that I need to pull and shuck.) So I am probably wrong?

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58 minutes ago, ElainaA said:

OK - i really think that number 1 is the dried long beans . (I would not have gotten this without the hints.:P) (With the hints I can actually see it. It does resemble the dried beans in my garden that I need to pull and shuck.) So I am probably wrong?

 

 

Is #1 long beans?

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7 hours ago, caroled said:

#1 Dried Daikon?

 

7 hours ago, Lisa Shock said:

#3 -dried long beans? (Chinese restaurants here call the long green beans 'long beans'.)

 

OK. Time to put you out of your mystery misery. I was amused by these two answers this morning. If only you had swapped answers (or numbers).

 

Number 1. is indeed dried long beans.

Number 3. is indeed dried daikon radish.

 

As I think I said, I wouldn't have got number 1, either if I didn't have the seller to ask. Number 3, I did know.

 

Roll on Number 4.

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46 minutes ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

Barbie's hula skirt is made from daikon? :o xD

 

I'm looking forward to seeing what you will make out of these unfamiliar ingredients, and No. 4. This thread has been a lot of fun!

 

 

Glad you enjoyed it. I'm not sure when I will get round to using them. Still the height of summer and dried goods don't figure much in my plans. But when I do, I'll probably post them.

As to Number 4. I hope someone else will put up a puzzler, so I get to play too, but in the meantime I am thinking of one item. I don't want to put up ridiculously obscure ingredients which only grow on one mountain top in deepest China. No point in that. Instead I am looking for things which people are likely to be familiar - such as beans, chili peppers and even daikon - but which appear in unusual ways or varieties.

So, how about this? Maybe easy to guess the underlying main ingredient, but what has been done to it? No Google image comparison searches allowed. I have posted this on the internet before.

No. It isn't something the dog left behind.



Number 4.jpg

Number 4

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16 minutes ago, BonVivant said:

I was not around but I had an idea it was dried beans. Took this photo in Zhaoxing, a nice little village surrounded by rice terraces. Dong people in Zhaoxing hang all kinds of vegs outside to dry.

 

 

Zhaoxing. Know it well, but haven't been for about 18 years.

 

Yes. The ethnic minority people of Guizhou, Hunan and Guizhou, among others, are renowned for their drying pretty much everything. The daikon in Number 3 is from western Hunan not far from Zhaoxing.

 

I had seen the dried beans many times before, but never before knotted so intricately into these pillows.

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10 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

No Google image comparison searches allowed. I have posted this on the internet before.

 

Rats! I was looking for another laugh, but if you have posted about it before, it would be cheating, because it might accidentally work.  :) That is the only area where the image identification software seems to work, when it has an identical image to locate. I believe a plagiarizer was was outed here with the software.

 

So I won't even try it, even though, again, I have no clue.

 

Smoked sausages, dried peppers or thousand year old cucumbers?

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1 minute ago, Thanks for the Crepes said:

 

Rats! I was looking for another laugh, but if you have posted about it before, it would be cheating, because it might accidentally work.  :) That is the only area where the image identification software seems to work, when it has an identical image to locate. I believe a plagiarizer was was outed here with the software.

 

So I won't even try it, even though, again, I have no clue.

 

Smoked sausages, dried peppers or thousand year old cucumbers?

 

You are on the right track, but also on some roads to ruin!

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Beautiful plate underneath #4, btw.

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12 hours ago, Alex said:

Beautiful plate underneath #4, btw.

 

It is indeed a beautiful plate, and now that it's no longer cheating I asked Mr. Google what he thought liuzhou's image was. It did not pick up on the seemingly identical photo from his blog, so was good for another laugh. Yeah, a LOT more time at the drawing board. I do love the ability to look up unfamiliar ingredients or plants by name and being able to peruse hundreds of images of them. That aspect has been so helpful to me.

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