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It’s a powder made from the ground of various beans, rice, barley.
The misu galu is really nutritious and it balances all the sweet flavors in the popping sue(팥빙수).
I found this on one of my visits to T&T Supermarket. Sometimes a visit to their bakery section yields plenty of experimental surprises. I've had mochi bread from Korean bakeries before (addictive beings... but expensive). These looked like an attempt at the same, but tougher (aka drier), larger, and covered with crumbly shortbread cookie mixture. Although I would liken it to tough toffee (stale with slight chew) I was still strangely drawn to the batch. I found them amusing when slightly heated - they deflated. Even more interesting was the fact that they came in different colours (black and white), for what I suspected to be a black sesame and a plain version. The black one didn't taste like sesame and had a tougher texture (like taffy).
Rich chocolate "buttermilk" cupcakes adapted (veganized) from fieldsofcake.blogspot.com/2009/03/iron-cupcake-earth-marc... get filled with a double burst of nuttiness from toasted sesame oil and toasted black sesame seeds!
There is an assortment of eight different delicious crackers making up a pack of Yaraku.
Flavours include :
Nori (Prawn with Seaweed), Hime Yukari (Prawn), Kuro Mame (Hokkaido Black Bean), Sakura Ebi Ao Nori (Sakura Prawn with Seaweed), Kuro Goma (Black Sesame), Macha (Green Tea), Murasaki Yimo (Purple Sweet Potato) & Ko Ebi (Okinawa's BBQ Salted Prawn)
Boiled spinach with black sesame sauce. Guu’s GOMAAE is black. ($3.80)
And black it was (vs. the white sesame version elsewhere). Unlike the versions that I’ve encountered and have loved (too many years to count), the tower of spinach at Guu was still whole (as in leaf versus chopped to manageable sizes – meaning Guu’s was more messy on the pick-up due to dripping floppy leaves) and covered (not mixed in) with the sesame dressing. Gommae is aromatic, nutty, and almost creamy; the tannic flavours of the spinach balanced to the point of masking buy sweet sesame paste. The version at Guu echoed those characteristics, but was more deconstructed than coherent. The leaves in the center of the pile stood naked, requiring manual manipulation to ensure they were coated with the ample and precious black sesame sauce. I didn’t find this a terrible thing, but I do prefer to have my gomaae prepared and ready to eat as it’s incredibly addictive (and a good way to get that iron and protein in one’s system). As much as I love black sesame paste in desserts or baked goods, it did have a sort of off putting appearance for this dish.
While my comments above might reflect a negative tone, there is no doubt that gomaae will always be on my ordering repertoire if ever it’s on a menu, including at Guu. It’s just too good to miss.
Afternoon and after-dinner snacks
Dried tamarind - was actually purchased in Chaweng a couple of nights before; coated with sugar and chilli - very tasty
Fruit-shaped biscuits (most were broken) that had to be dipped in the chocolate
Black Sesame flavoured soy milk - could not be finished
Coke
Coconut Jelly - not consumed until the next day
Squiddy baked cuttlefish - not too bad, but there wasn't much in the box and most of the pieces were broken
Taro filled bun - accidently included in the photo; was not actually eaten
We took the rail from Narita to Shinjuku station and promptly got lost. The station is MASSIVE and at 7pm the crowd was pretty crazy. My limited Japanese knowledge coupled with some friendly locals got us to the hotel at around 8pm or so. After getting settled, we went out for dinner to a restaurant on the 52nd floor of a building right next to the government building. The food might have been the highest quality of taste we had on our entire trip; yeah, it was delicious. And the view we had as we dined from the 52nd floor, would have been amazing. I say would have been because it was a miserable night; rainy, cloudy, windy.. I took a few shots out the window but all that was really clear was fog, glare, and the safety lights of the nearby buildings.
Anyway, dessert was black sesame pudding. It didn't taste as good as the appetizers and main course, but it would be close to impossible to taste as good as those did. I only wish I remembered the name of this place..
Sausage & cheese black sesame burger. More details please drop by www.icteduc.com/emily/2011/09/05/little-monkey-burger/
Autumn is the season for Persimmons, I decided to try out this recipe for a popular Northern Chinese street snack
Mmmmmmm... black sesame rice crackers. So tasty, and even better when they're fresh and still warm. Asakusa, Tokyo. November 6, 2007.
Boiled spinach with black sesame sauce. Guu’s GOMAAE is black. ($3.80)
And black it was (vs. the white sesame version elsewhere). Unlike the versions that I’ve encountered and have loved (too many years to count), the tower of spinach at Guu was still whole (as in leaf versus chopped to manageable sizes – meaning Guu’s was more messy on the pick-up due to dripping floppy leaves) and covered (not mixed in) with the sesame dressing. Gommae is aromatic, nutty, and almost creamy; the tannic flavours of the spinach balanced to the point of masking buy sweet sesame paste. The version at Guu echoed those characteristics, but was more deconstructed than coherent. The leaves in the center of the pile stood naked, requiring manual manipulation to ensure they were coated with the ample and precious black sesame sauce. I didn’t find this a terrible thing, but I do prefer to have my gomaae prepared and ready to eat as it’s incredibly addictive (and a good way to get that iron and protein in one’s system). As much as I love black sesame paste in desserts or baked goods, it did have a sort of off putting appearance for this dish.
While my comments above might reflect a negative tone, there is no doubt that gomaae will always be on my ordering repertoire if ever it’s on a menu, including at Guu. It’s just too good to miss.
Thin seaweed shells were filled with yuzu (update: thanks to the Ulterior Epicure the contents were the following: lemon wedge and black sesame paste) served over a bed of black sesame seeds. It was a cross between a crispy thin savoury Japanese cracker (soy seasoned) and a sheet of nori.
Filled with black sesame. These came out alot better then the red bean filled ones. The red bean paste I used was too watery.
pasta with pork, eryngii and black sesame. And a bun.
Today I brought my powerbook to Apple service center.
I'm tired.....after it comes back, I think about the external HDD.
Well, this day's photo was still remained in the camera! Lucky!
I myself can be fine with "yummy photo", so I wish you can be so too! ;-)
パスタなんだけど、焼きそばみたい？？おいしかったですよ♪
Making this picnic took a lot longer than I thought it would. There are five layers, but one of them was a 'leftover' layer and contained all the odds and ends we had leftover. I'd like to think there was something for everyone in this bento, and as one of my friends is allergic to fish, I had to make sure the chicken layer was totally seperate!