I like the Strip
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eubI 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.
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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Date: 2002-01-11 03:07 pm (UTC)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
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Date: 2002-01-11 10:03 pm (UTC)I'll buy a durian if I see one. Closest I saw was jackfruit, canned.
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Date: 2002-01-12 09:14 am (UTC)