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. :)