I unfortunately cannot provide any real pictures, as I don't think I remembered to take any at the time and whatever phone they might've been in is long dead by now.

It looked like a teeny tiny, green eggplant, except the flesh was slimy and slightly lumpy and so soft I was given a tiny spoon to eat it with. I remember it being absolutely delicious. I don't know if it was maybe reconstituted pudding of some vegetable served that way, but it looked weirdly natural the way it was put together.

It was served alongside other tiny servings of other things (chicken, what I think was tofu, a bundle of cold and super spicy rice noodles, etc) but this permanently sticks out in my mind as being something I'd like to have again but no clue what it possibly could've been. Sorry this is all super fuzzy, it's been 5+ years and despite being stuck with that inquiry I never actually thought to ask.

Spongy texture.

I'm looking for an asian snack(?) that is very very sour. It's a dried fruit and I initially thought it was sour plum, but all the brands I tried ended up being too sweet. It looks like dried sour prune though. I think this is in the chinese cuising, maybe vietnamese (but I am not 100% sure it is).

It is not :

• tamarind

• li hing mui

• sour prune

So, I got these treats in a special box from the holidays and they tasted like a gummy but didn’t have the chewiness of a gummy; instead, they were soft when biting into them. They were fruit flavoured. They were also covered in sugar. They were about the size of a chocolate truffle.

Searching for “sugar covered gummies” didn’t bring up the results I was hoping for.

Any idea what this snack could’ve been?

Edit: solved

My old college used to serve a kind of fried chicken that was heavily seasoned with basil and I think was asian in origin. It had a tight fitting breading that was a shade darker than golden brown. Does anyone has a clue?

So, when I was younger, there was this garlic chicken meal kit from Target that was delicious. I don't remember the specific year, but I know it was in my late elementary to early middle school— so like 2008 to 2011.

I remember the box being kind of like an olive green, and one of the things the box asked for to make the meal was water chestnuts. I really loved it a lot and I still think about it.

The same brand also did cashew chicken but I don't remember it as well as the garlic chicken.

(If this is the wrong flair, let me know and I'll change it).

EDIT: I'm looking for the brand of these meals— mostly so I can at least find it somewhere and try to reverse engineer the recipe.

Got this from my school dining hall, was the most delicious thing there. What type of beef is this, would it just be steak?

Purchased from my local Asian supermarket. When I search up “green sweet chilli peppers”, nothing comes up. Can I treat these like shishitos when cooking?

We buy this at a local sushi shop but it is run by Chinese not Japanese owners. So they call it “spicy chicken karaage” but it’s not actually Japanese karaage. Thinking it may have Chinese origins? It’s so good. I think I can recreate the sauce but not the crispiness. It doesn’t have skin on but there is some kind of thick crunchy shell around the chicken and it keeps its crunchiness even when cool. It kind of seems like overfried chicken haha. It’s amazing and I’d love to be able to make something similar. Any idea what I’d search for?

It is really good. Very crunchy. Cylindrical.

at italian restaurant. had small pieces of pepper inside. came with butter on the side.

Hello,

When I visited Copenhagen, I stubbled upon a Chinese resturatant because I was craving asian food and was pleasantly surprised. I had a particular dish on their menu called "Crispy Duck poured with onion, leak and garlic sauce".

Though the name gives it away, I have not been able to find a recipe online to create it. Would anyone have one? Many thanks in advance!

https://preview.redd.it/1tqkgn4n9cyc1.jpg?width=1262&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b11f5e9e57ec27a8de8e18d9c875e77e79824de

Does anyone know what brand this might be? Got it from my friend but she doesn't remember. Lable just said "organic oats & flax." Thanks!

I am a Eurovision fan. I previously catalogued every single food that I could find to be involved with Eurovision...except for one, which I was unable to figure out.

During the Russian Eurovision performance from 2012 (Party for Everybody - Buranovskiye Babushki), the performers seem to be baking something, and I have been trying to figure out what it is for probably more than a year.

Here is the link to the performance, along with the timestamp where said food is the most visible, in my opinion.

Reddit, what food did the Buranovskiye Babushki bake during their ESC performance of "Party for Everybody"?

Additional information that could potentially be helpful:

-The performers are most likely from Udmurtia, since they partially sang in Udmurt.

-According to one of the interval acts from ESC 2016 (Love, Love, Peace, Peace), they were baking bread.

Thank you very much!

Pre-Covid we used to buy “Devil Pips” from a local independent “traditional sweet shoppe” but the pandemic unfortunately led to its demise. We now can’t find these sweets anywhere else at all, & google turns up no results.

They were small pip-like sweets but ridiculously sour. I love a sour sweet & they are literally the only sweet I’d ever say was towards the limit of my tolerance.

Does anyone know another name for these, or where I can find any?

In the early 2000's my mom used to buy these 4-pack of spinach/feta calzone blobs from Costco. I used to put them in the microwave after school and they were DELICIOUS. They were fully cooked but needed to be in the fridge and looked very similar to this image of raw bread dough. I've been looking for them forever and can't find them!! HELP!!??

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Me and some coworkers went for a meal at a local Chinese restaurant the other day and at the end of the meal they gave us these little sweets that were amazing!

We only got one each so I couldn't get a photo of it after eating, but I added a photo of the packaging it came in.

The sweet itself was shaped exactly like a polo mint, identical in every way apart from instead of it having the "POLO" text, it had the word "COOL" - the flavour I can only describe as a super refreshing fruity taste, possibly similar to icebreaker sweets?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!!

My apologies if this is misplaced! This was unexpected morning kitchen sink chemistry, but I was really hoping to get more information:

When I made coffee this morning, I had a little adventure.

Since my milk had 7 days ‘til its best before day, I poured it into my coffee without caution. But it flowed in a lumpy, slopping mess of chunks, and despaired. I thought it was a write off. But then I reassessed.

The milk didn’t smell retched (maybe covid broke my nose), and the coffee didn’t get filled with the expected, tiny, specks.
I took a sip, and …itt was okay. Just like black coffee. And so I figured I could pour it out, and leave whatever bad-milk debris behind, as it had clearly settled.

But I was so exceptionally surprised when there was a neat looking blob in the bottom. And I don’t know why, but…I took a little nibble, and it was DELICIOUS. I could have understood if I had made a paneer-type thing, the acid in the coffee, curdling the protein etc.

But this was so SWEET, and creamy. Smooth, silky. The rest of the milk that I (rashly, I think now) poured down the sink was not smooth. This was like a desert, a thing I would actively create. It tasted about half as sweet as maple syrup, with a delicious light coffee flavour.

And I would LOVE to know what might have gone differently than the awful little chunky curdled milk, or paneer, that I have more experience with. Anyone know what was on the tip of my spoon?

Spotted at a little place inside the Roma Termini at Fattorie Garofalo (Bufala). Why is it red? Is it beets? Food coloring? Tomato? Wtf

i couldn't figure out what to tag this, so i just picked the one i thought best fit

i vividly remember there being one of those crackers that come in the plastic wrapping that was like the ones with the cheese cracker and the peanut butter filling, but the cracker on the outside was peanut butter and the filling was cheese instead. it was the same as most of the plastic bag cracker except the crackers were round. i don't remember the brand. i need to make sure these exist and that im NOT insane, if they do exist i'd like to know the brand and if they were discontinued or not because after i had them i never saw them again

Like the title says these things were slightly smaller than the size of a marshmallow. They were hollow. Too short for me to call it a tube. The bag was like a deep brown and yellow.

Before remote work killed them off, there were a lot of Korean-owned buffets downtown that catered to office workers. There wasn't just Korean stuff, they had a variety of cuisines. Most of these places had this great boneless roast pork done in a BBQ sauce. It might or might not be a Korean dish, since, as I said, there were non-Korean dishes too. Here's the characteristics of the sauce:

• It was bright red in color.
• It was sweet. There was no heat, it was not spicy at all, which lets out a lot of the Korean sauces I've seen online like gochu.
• Unlike some of the recipes I've seen, I couldn't taste any liquor in it, and given how cheap the prices were, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't pay for alcohol for the sauce.

Any guesses?