small plates. brief verdicts.
A running log of the meals, snacks, bakery misses, and properly judged food decisions that keep interrupting the trip. Some notes are photos. Some are shorts. All of them get a short review.
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In Chiang Mai, “Things John Decided to Eat” took a turn into the crunchy, slightly nutty world of wok fried silkworm pupa. Street food in Thailand keeps testing the boundaries between curiosity and dinner. Sometimes the answer is “surprisingly good.” Sometimes it’s “well… now we know.” 😂
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The first edition of "Marcia v. the Menu." Marcia finally got in front of the camera in Malaysia. Trying out a Lemon Ribena with Sprite with lunch, and John wasn’t taking no for an answer when he asked to film. Sweet, citrusy, icy cold, and gone way too quickly. 🍋🥤
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Finally, a dessert John can eat!
More desserts need to include sticky rice!
Different spices, but memories of my childhood with my grandmother.
I really like heart, dense, chewy and flavourful. Regardless of what animal.
Cebu City
Delightful flavour and texture — lightly sweet, soft, and chewy.
Mango tamarind balls. The flavour is delightful — lightly sweet with that tamarind tang underneath. The texture is soft and chewy in a way that keeps you going back.
Cebu City
Dried squid with a sugar coating, some chew, and a decent hit of spice.
I like squid in general, and also most dried and sweet fish I have come across. This one is a bit over-sweet, but the texture is nice and chewy and lasts.
The spice hits a bit, but is not overpowering. I would eat it again.
IByang's Hidden Inasal, Cebu City
Inasal delivery with sweet-savoury sauce, smoky meat, bright Java rice, and turon to finish.
M.E. had pecha. J.A. had skewers of chicken and pork. We had Java rice.
The sauce was sweet and savoury. The chicken was delicate and pleasant, with a touch of smoke. The pork had more bite, which I really enjoyed.
We also had turon for dinner, banana in a spring roll wrapper. It uses saba banana, which is commonly cooked here rather than the ones I am eating for lunch, in a syrup with cinnamon and then skillet-cooked or something similar. It is also called lumpiang saging, or banana lumpia.
Poulsbo, Washington
M.E.'s Costco pie quest in Poulsbo turned into a Pi Day short, complete with a very large apple pie.
This was M.E.'s quest for Costco pie in Poulsbo, Washington, involving a mile walk and, somehow, uphill both ways.
The 2 kg apple pie was partly for the fun of the video, but also because Pi Day without pie was not an acceptable outcome.