Re: [Aroid-l] Re: Iron Chef - Konnyaku

From: piaba piabinha at yahoo.com> on 2005.11.22 at 01:13:15(13562) hi jason, > Small cups of fruit flavored jelly... I wonder if > this is the stuff I remember in Taiwan. At our > bushiban's Christmas party, we had loads and loads > of tiny cups of gelatin, which we teachers would > hand out to the kids who won a round of the games we > ran. I assumed it was regular gelatin, so I never > bothered to check the ingredients (not that I could > have read the Chinese characters for konjak). In > Taiwan, one can certainly find a great many Japanese > products. +More probably. konnyaku is not strictly a japanese product, and these cups of jelly with fruit are sold in chinese markets, sometimes with a small square of fruit jelly in the middle. it's just like fruit jelly/gelatin in taste and consistency. as i said, konnyaku noodles are served in soup at a restaurant here in nyc, but they are really cute because they are made as transparent bundles of tied noodles, knotted. oh yeah, if you are into japanese cuisine, there's nothing like warm oden stew in the winter... http://japanesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa011402a.htm btw, what's a bushiban? ========= tsuh yang __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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