I like the Strip

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I went looking specifically for one thing: oyster sauce containing a non-trivial amount of oysters. I got it. But I also got a jar of "sweet macapuno balls (gelatinous mutant coconut)", a.k.a. "coconut sport balls". Ingredients: gelatinous mutant coconut, sugar, water, sodium metabisulfite, and 0.07% sodium benzoate (preservative). IANMTU. I wonder if Laura will eat them on a dare.

Also useful items like white truffle oil, dirt-cheap shallots, steamed (well, steam-ready) pork buns, chipotles, those waxily addictive White Rabbit candies, and a big crescent of some Asian kind of melon that I hope is tasty because it's going to be dessert.

Most interesting item I didn't buy: a book on how to replicate nationally-known brands of junk food in your own kitchen. McDonald's™ Egg McMuffins™, Nabisco™ Oreos™, etc.

I was looking for cacao beans (mad urge to try chocolate espresso), but couldn't find them; Prestogeorge said they used to carry them.

On the way back I found rochberg's wormhole from the Strip to the alley behind Filmmakers. I can't explain without a map, but if you go straight instead of turning right at the four-way stop after the bridge over the parking lot, and then (handwave) take a jog left, there's a Melwood St. in Polish Hill that runs under the Bloomfield Bridge to become the one in North Oakland, almost, except there's this off-by-one error.

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[elletweedy.livejournal.com]

I'm willing to try almost any plant on a dare if I don't think it will kill me. Animal parts I'm more selective on which ones I eat. For example, tentacles and suckers are out. :)

[beegle.livejournal.com]

Most interesting item I didn't buy: a book on how to replicate nationally-known brands of junk food in your own kitchen. McDonald'sMost interesting item I didn't buy: a book on how to replicate nationally-known brands of junk food in your own kitchen. McDonald's™ Egg McMuffins™, Nabisco™ Oreos™, etc.

I have one such book. You're welcome to borrow it. You might also want to look at http://www.topsecretrecipies.com

You really must acquire a durian sometime. Or rather, I want one of my friends to buy one so that I can try it. I don't have the courage to acquire one myself. More details here: http://www.andreas.com/food.html

[eub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was the book! I didn't buy it because I don't generally want to make these food products... but it might make an amusing theme dinner.

I'll buy a durian if I see one. Closest I saw was jackfruit, canned.

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

Ralph and I would be happy to collaborate on a theme dinner of this sort...anything to distract him from Spam (tm) aspic... ;-)

[mj2q.livejournal.com]

There's actually another way to get to that cool wormhole (which is useful the other way during heavy traffic, so you can avoid the light at 28th), if you go straight on Liberty instead of veering up and right at 28th, then turn right at the light right after you go under the bridge (32? 33?), you'll go up this cool windy road which will bring you up to where you take a left on the street that eventually turns into Melwood.

Uh, I dunno if that made any sense. Well, it's still fun. :)

[eub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Herron Hill Ave., you can go up that probably quicker.

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Whoops. I should really pay attention to whose tickets I have when I post messages.

That wasn't actually Mark, in case you couldn't tell. :)