Aha! Now that’s looking more like it. That’s what you get when your friend brings you the correct dough from the special supermarket in the city. That weird tool didn’t work very well. xD. Tossed it aside as expected. These are all handmade. The gyoza the tool makes leaves too much dough standing upwards and they don’t sit as well in a pan (they’ll topple over).
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Stinky Kimchi
I just got out my kimchi again today. It’s been sitting in the garage fridge packed really tightly in like 5 layers of plastic. It’s still good until half of June, and some people say kimchi can never get ‘bad’. After all, it was made that way to last. I’m not sure really, I figure if I don’t eat it after June 11th I should be fine.
My mom and dad nearly throw up at the smell of it. roflmao. It’s always like that if it comes out the container. All the gasses stay trapped in there until you open it. It’s quite overwhelming haha. Then when you take some out, five minutes later the smell is gone. Only a mild sour smell remains. My dad freaked out. “You’re not going to eat that are you?”. “OMG, you can’t be serious. Open up a window. It smells so bad.”
Then he says: “Yeah yeah, you’ve proven your manhood again. Now don’t complain to me if you get sick”.
Obviously this food is not made for white people. I mean, I’m sure many will eat it without knowing what it is and neatly served on a platter when it doesn’t stink as much anymore. But it’ll take some more courage getting it out of the package when the fumes can reach your nose. Hence, odorless kimchi might actually catch on. When I went to clean my bowl out he said: “Have some mercy on the garbage man”. rofl. He’s right, that would be aweful if you’re a garbage man.
Reminds me of that one time in Japan in the hotel when a kid asked his mum why I wasn’t eating any nattou. She looked at him firmly and said: “They don’t eat that”. You’d be surprised what I can eat and what I actually ate so far. Fish with little eyes, unknown fish cheek, something with tentacles, cod roe, sea urchin, crab’s brain (I think). The only thing I really hate is sea urchin. Yellow/orange mush that tastes like a ladybug’s poop smells like. No thanks! But for the rest I’m quite an adventurous eater.