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add sriracha to pasta sauce for an extra kick.
mixed w/ mayo to dip fries in, or squirted onto mini quiches, its all delicious :)

kyotofu, nyc.
love it

where can you buy yuzu juice? i never see it in the stores!
i've seen yuzu kosho and yuzu vinegar, but no yuzu juice. and we don't have the yuzu fruit here either (DC area)

definitely cookies and milk.

my friend works in an office where no one is allowed to bring pork products in because the boss doesn't eat it (due to religion).

this gets sticky in catering situations...

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“Sai Min” (saimin/saimen/saimian) is one of my favorite dishes that combines the best things in the world in one bowl of happiness and yumminess. I’ve had it at the hands of my island-famous great-grandfather (who used to own a store/restaurant in Hawai’i, and would cut the noodles by hand).

I thought it was a Cantonese dish, but after much research, I have found that it is unique to the islands! No wonder everyone I talked to about it had no clue what I was saying.

Though I was in Japan, I lived quite a long train ride away from the city. The first day I arrived in Japan, I had not yet received my luggage (it was coming separately) and while paused before a very steep hill in a town I had never been to before, was welcomed by a bird dropping a 'present' on my head. That memory aside, the small town of Mizonokuchi (who no one in Japan has ever heard of) became a really great place for me to live. I frequently went to the depaato (department store) food courts for character shaped breads, and even got noodles from a vending machine.

By far the weirdest thing I ever had to eat when I was in Japan though was a traditional Japanese breakfast -- little salted fish heads -- in Kyoto! I tried a few and then moved on to the other 10 or so dishes. I also accidentally ate natto (fermented soy beans with a mucus-like consistency) sushi. The natto was covered up with greens and when I picked it off of the conveyor belt and put it into my mouth I literally almost threw up! No amount of chewing could get the sushi down fast enough.

Every day on my way to school I also passed a suppon (turtle stew) restaurant, but never got a chance to try.