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extrapenguinToday's Fopinions February is for rheasilvia, on foods and beverages! For my opinions on beverages, please consult my icon. :P
Foods
I hate sweet things, so my favorite dessert is not having a dessert. Bar that, fruits are nice. Whenever I bake, I minimize the amount of sugar, so my various cakes etc are quite unsweet despite being what they are. (I don't bake that often, though.) Almost always the main course tastes better than the dessert. *g*
Tastes I actually like are savory and spicy, savory the most. I've listed my top 5 dishes elsewhere, but in general I like garlic, ginger, black beans, and various umami-tasting things. I also really enjoy the taste of meat, especially duck. I have on various occasions tried vegetarian/vegan food, but at least here it tends to be utterly lacking in umami/savouryness/heft in taste, so I'm not a fan. I love stirfries and rice, and find local Finnish food to be really bland-tasting.
Beverages
Again, I hate sweet things, so anything sweeter than orange juice is right out. Alcohol-wise, I like gin with tonic water or orange juice, which inevitably leads to bartenders being very very confused. Beer sucks. I hate coffee.This is the place where they revoke my Finnish citizenship. Water is nice, and I drink water with my meals.
My favorite drink of all is tea! Here, too, I prefer the more bitter ones to the tastes-like-water ones, and I'm not into white teas or any tisanes. I'm also not into oolongs, since they tend to be a bit too sweet. (When I speak of tea, I mean Camellia sinensis leaf infusions. Nothing else can compare to my one love.) I'm currently on an unflavored teas kick, and like Yunnan black teas, (incl. Fengqing Dragon Pearl), Assam black teas (which I should look at again, hmm), Zhen Mei green tea, and Lushan Yunwu green tea. I'm more into Chinese teas than Japanese ones.
My current tea setup is a liter-strong ceramic pot inherited from a great-aunt, plus a metal strainer to hold the tea leaves. At some point in my life when I will stay in one place for over a year I would like to own a gongfu set (explanation) so I can be a fancypants civilized penguin and impress any potential guests with my OTT tea obsession!
rheasilvia, on foods and beverages! For my opinions on beverages, please consult my icon. :PFoods
I hate sweet things, so my favorite dessert is not having a dessert. Bar that, fruits are nice. Whenever I bake, I minimize the amount of sugar, so my various cakes etc are quite unsweet despite being what they are. (I don't bake that often, though.) Almost always the main course tastes better than the dessert. *g*
Tastes I actually like are savory and spicy, savory the most. I've listed my top 5 dishes elsewhere, but in general I like garlic, ginger, black beans, and various umami-tasting things. I also really enjoy the taste of meat, especially duck. I have on various occasions tried vegetarian/vegan food, but at least here it tends to be utterly lacking in umami/savouryness/heft in taste, so I'm not a fan. I love stirfries and rice, and find local Finnish food to be really bland-tasting.
Beverages
Again, I hate sweet things, so anything sweeter than orange juice is right out. Alcohol-wise, I like gin with tonic water or orange juice, which inevitably leads to bartenders being very very confused. Beer sucks. I hate coffee.
My favorite drink of all is tea! Here, too, I prefer the more bitter ones to the tastes-like-water ones, and I'm not into white teas or any tisanes. I'm also not into oolongs, since they tend to be a bit too sweet. (When I speak of tea, I mean Camellia sinensis leaf infusions. Nothing else can compare to my one love.) I'm currently on an unflavored teas kick, and like Yunnan black teas, (incl. Fengqing Dragon Pearl), Assam black teas (which I should look at again, hmm), Zhen Mei green tea, and Lushan Yunwu green tea. I'm more into Chinese teas than Japanese ones.
My current tea setup is a liter-strong ceramic pot inherited from a great-aunt, plus a metal strainer to hold the tea leaves. At some point in my life when I will stay in one place for over a year I would like to own a gongfu set (explanation) so I can be a fancypants civilized penguin and impress any potential guests with my OTT tea obsession!
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Date: 2019-02-14 22:44 (UTC)(The key to coffee is turning it into 70% sugar and milk, 30% coffee lol. Just kidding - I really hated it until a certain point in my life when I was literally nodding off at 9am and nothing but coffee would keep me awake (only later did I realize it was the non-drowsy allergy medication I took that caused this...:p). Now, it's part sugar and part brain chemistry being dependent on it, I suspect, lol...I really don't recommend it, coffee withdrawals suck.)
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Date: 2019-02-15 15:07 (UTC)I was also told to start by taking milk that was flavored with coffee, then increasing the coffee concentration, but alas, I just puke up anything with milk in it, and due to psychological reasons from allergies and intolerances, associating coffee with milk would just make me hate it more.
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Date: 2019-02-18 02:48 (UTC)I'll dig it up in the next few days! Strangely, I can eat a good amount of tofu, soy sauce, etc. but I am allergic to actual soy milk. I took one tiny sip once and my throat ended up itchy and swollen lol. You can put anything you want in this dish, but I remember putting vermicelli, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, and maybe wood ears? My dad likes to throw sliced fish cake in there too lol.