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Hydrox are far superior..Oreos hav a somewhat bitter aftertaste.
Also miss those pink and whitw /w coconut cookies Mallowpuffs.
Ate Hydrox all through '50's to 90's. Bought 16 pkgs. when they appeared
last anniversary year. They should be brought back as a holiday item
November/December..they'd sure sell.

This stuff is amazing. H Mart was having a promotional sales on the XXL-sized jar! Needless to say we jumped on that one, quick.

Nothing like a big, steaming mug of yuzu tea to melt away what ails you, colds or stress.

And don't forget the pulp is edible after you're done with your tea! It's delicious, too!

@Mares:
I have to check the jar to see what the ingredients are exactly.
It's all to taste, depending whether you want a sweeter, stronger drink or a lighter one, you can use more or less of the mixture.
Most brands are quite similar and all good (and there are a lot of them. In my H mart, one end of an aisle is reserved for all the brands of this stuff). I do notice that some retain a bit of the bitter edge from the peel while others are all sweetness, but its not an unpleasant thing.

i LOVE yujacha! i've been craving that all winter, along with shikhae and that one korean cereal drink made out of grains...? anyway, thanks for this post; reminds me i gotta lug a jar or two back to denmark on my way back from california. :D

Yuja Cha is great for roasting meats, especially when mixed with Spanish smoked paprika. I've done this successfully on chicken and duck but kinda failed on the "mystery birds" I bought one time.

http://www.zenkimchi.com/FoodJournal/?p=993

engill: I was going write about red date and honey tea in a few weeks ;) Do you like the ginger-honey ones?

ulyric: get thee to a Ranch 99 or a Korean grocery =)

I love all these jammy tea mixes! In addtion to the Yuzu one, I also always have a jujube (date) one in the fridge. It's like my white wine and red wine.

Thank you for expounding the delights of this fabulous stuff! Now I must go out and search for my own yuzu tea. I find this quite exciting!

Oh I know what you mean about having a yuzu tree of your own. I am carefully cultivating my own Meyer lemon tree, now in bloom at 6" tall. Soon my little one....soon.

Oh wow... I'm yuzu crazed, but it's still pretty new to me. Must investigate yujacha further. Thanks so much for the overview!

Ah, hanjuku tamago -- such an improvement over the standard hard-boiled egg. I hadn't ever encountered it until a late-night dinner at Setagaya in NYC last week: http://flickr.com/photos/marriedwithdinner/3242901795/ Now I am hooked. We'll have to make a pilgrimage to Kahoo soon.

dreamsicle: I've tried Santa Ramen but found the broth overwhelming in a too much MSG kind of way. But that's my subjective opinion -- you should definitely do a ramen tour the next time you're in the area so that you can do your own compare and contrast =)
(Also, if you care about it, Santa Ramen serves up a regular hard boiled egg, not a hanjuku tamago.)

Holy cow! I was obsessed with these in Singapore. Where I was staying there was a Meidi-ya supermarket downstairs and there was a little mom 'n' pop stand inside where you could get them made fresh any time of day. I could not resist them. I went in on new year's eve and the line snaked around the whole store and that's the only day I didn't have some. Thanks for the tip-off!

@joannabar: TJs is in the mall next door to the north, so it's not a far walk. It's just..like..not the same mall, so it seems far at first, ha ha.

If you go right when Mitsuwa opens, you should be able to get a parking spot. Like 10 am? And then the crowds descend..

@joannabar: I hear ya on the parking issue. I learned to just park at the mall with the Trader Joe's (I drive from the north) instead of go to the Mitsuwa parking lot and be disappointed during crowded hours. That parking lot has been the same size since FOREVER, with no room for expansion..hohum.

I think the taiyakis are just red bean, but there's a similar cream-filled thing as well.