Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Green Gelatinous Snack with Meat

Apparently this snack is for Tomb Sweeping Day, which was at the beginning of April. The best way to understand this is with an unveiling of the snack in photos:



Here is the snack, in a cute and unassuming little box, no more than a couple of inches across. Looks pretty harmless.



Inside we find a green globule.



Unwrap and...who's in here? It's meat floss (dried shredded meat).



The meat floss begins to emerge.




I had to play with it awhile before I ate it. Maybe it's because it was actually just like that green slime we used to play with as kids, only slightly firmer. But the texture was identical.

Taste: Sweet, sticky and soft outside, and meaty, salty and fuzzy inside. I don't think those adjectives should go together. Ever.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Cheese Ice Cream



I found this at a snack stand in Hangzhou. It did in fact have a hint of Swiss cheese flavor to it. No holes, though.