Carrot & Radish Soup
Today I am making one of my favorite kinds of Chinese soups. It's the first time I've ever tried to make it, and it was a pain in the ass to find all the ingredients. Mainly because I really hate going to the Chinese grocery stores. They tend to be dirty, cramped, and filled with food that I know I love, but would rather not know what it is. Or see, in its uncooked form. Stuff like "Fish Maw." I don't know what that is because my mom won't actually tell us kids for fear that we'll get grossed out, but it hasn't escaped us that the Chinese words for it are "Fish Stomach."
So back to the soup, which is a carrot & radish soup. I love it, and it really does taste good, but unfortunately, it smells really really terrible when you're cooking it. How terrible, you may ask? Well, as my mother describes it, it smells like "a hundred people farting....all at once....in your apartment."
Poor Max. Poor Pig. Poor neighbors.
So back to the soup, which is a carrot & radish soup. I love it, and it really does taste good, but unfortunately, it smells really really terrible when you're cooking it. How terrible, you may ask? Well, as my mother describes it, it smells like "a hundred people farting....all at once....in your apartment."
Poor Max. Poor Pig. Poor neighbors.
posted by S at 12:33 PM
7 Comments:
carrot radish sounds really good though... I'm the nut that loves the asian grocery stores. I was just starting to get good at this one japanese one in cambridge, when i moved. The people were a little less annoyed with me, since i had learned a couple of symbols, and didn't need someone to like escort me through... who knew there were so many kinds of nori!?!
See I like the japanese ones a lot more than the chinese ones. The japanese ones are usually smaller and cleaner. The chinese ones...can be gross, imo.
that could be true. the chinese ones seem to smell a little off when i've been in. i thought it was probably just food i wasn't used to. Chinatown in nyc is amazing, but they do have some interesting shapes of meat in the windows....
"Shapes" is a polite word for it, Meliss.
"Parts" or "kidns" of meat/animals is more like it!!!
I meant "Kinds." Typos - argh.
i got lost in chinatown when i was in new york as i always do. i'm thinking, oh, my people! until i had to ask for directions on how to get out of chinatown. at which they turned out to be total dicks, admitting they knew where i needed to go, but not deigning to tell me. so i had to leave a message for brian saying, "Brian, I'm stuck in Chinatown. I'm surrounded by Chinese people and they're MEAN." He had to mapquest me out of there from Los Angeles.
That's the worst! I've found people in nyc to be so nice. I guess I admittedly haven't met too many chinese people. Only the ones that run the fung wah bus I think. Fung wah rules because it's a nice bus and it's cheap as dirt, but i think the name probably means "stupid white people ride this bus."
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