Yucky food ranking on tv today

There was a very interesting program on tv this afternoon featuring the world's most undelicious stuff. Ranked by the Japanese staff on the show.

After watching the rank list, it was not interesting at all.

In fact, it made me feel i am a weirdo in Japan.

rank3 Vegemite

comment by the reporter: tastes of muddy river

rank2 Thai durian (dodo) cake

tastes of onions went bad

rank1 This canned sardine like fish from Sweden i can't remember what is it called but the pronounication sounded like shoestring.

Ammonia smell was so strong, he almost fainted while opening the can

then came the rest of the list which is not as bad and was brought into the studio during the tv show for the hosts and guests to try

rank4 Guilingao

the grils love it. the guys found this weird tasting.

rank 5 Some korean dried fish called honohfe

stinks so bad no one dared to try.

rank 6 a liquorice candy called samiakki

everyone found the taste so overwhelming and bitter.

Wow, out of the 6, i happen to like half the list!

firstly, vegemite is one of my favourite yeast paste! on toast or in soup, it is simply fragrant!

then, dodo cake is another one of my childhood favs! as i grew older and discovered the alarming sugar content, i didn't crave them anymore.

Guilingao! is a MUST have whenver i visit hongkong.

ok anyway,

we have made a list of dinner items we want to have while i have the energy to zip around the kitchen.

There are plenty of stuff on the list which are from Harumi Kurihara's cooking show.

First off tonight,

besides cabbage and potato soup, we had

japanese style mabo tofu

This was done on her show and since we both like mabo tofu, we had to give this a try.

The chinese spicy tobanjan and sesame oil were totally left out, which made this really easy on the stomach.

Shoyu & sweet mirin based sauce with non spicy chilli flakes made this dish kind of sukiyaki tasting, but with the chopped spring onions, ginger and garlic in the sauce too, this tasted like the usual mabo too.

anyhow, 2 thumbs up!

flower greens and fish cake salad

homemade coffee pudding with strawberries

Winter sort of returned today with temperatures dipping to 9degC.

my hands are feeling the weird temperature transition and are all dry and painful from too much use of warm water.

for the first time last night, i slept with gloves on.

but you know where they landed up in the morning. >.<