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Our Japanese student (JD) has regular food parcels sent by her Mum and she often gives us some of the contents. She came down, armed with her translator, and asked if we would like some stuff from the one delivered on Weds.
There were 6 egg shaped, what she called cakes. They had a sweet bean paste filling which was the main ingredient, a very thin layer of cake and were covered with icing. OH REALLY liked them, I found mine a bit sweet, and DD passed hers on to OH. We also have a bag of sugar covered beans, looks like a mix of mung, adzuki and kidney
. JD says they are a snack, or her mum makes bread and puts them into the dough. We are going to have a go at that tomorrow.
It is strange, because her Mum doesn't always send stuff JD likes or knows
. This time though it was her Dad, he went to China where he does a lot of business and he apparently brought back lots of these little individually packed meat pieces. JD didn't know what they were, so she put the words into the translator. The first word came up duck, and the second liver. We opened one, DD flatly refused to taste it after smelling, JD and I were braver and took a TINY bite. It was very fibrous, not like liver at all. When I asked her whether she liked it she said 'yes', but I'm now able to interpret her better and her 'Yes' definitely meant 'No'! I didn't like it either, and OH refused to taste it after having a sniff. Then we gave it to the cats. One of them chewed it up, and then spat it out, so I had a real mess to clear up.
I don't think they were livers, I think they might be hearts. They were cooked, because they had the jelly round them, like you get in pork pies.
When DD said that JD's dad had probably bought them home, no one liked them and as they didn't know what else to do with them, they sent them to us, JD got a fit of the giggles and agreed. We still have 6 or so in the fridge, but I suppose they will go in the bin as not even the cats will eat them
I noticed that everything is packed with silica gel, so I asked her if it was very humid out in Japan. Once I had explained what the word meant, she agreed that was the reason for it. Also the curry and stew cubes come in 5 or 10 portions, not 4 like here. She says families are generally larger in Japan than in the UK, though she is an only child.
There were 6 egg shaped, what she called cakes. They had a sweet bean paste filling which was the main ingredient, a very thin layer of cake and were covered with icing. OH REALLY liked them, I found mine a bit sweet, and DD passed hers on to OH. We also have a bag of sugar covered beans, looks like a mix of mung, adzuki and kidney
. JD says they are a snack, or her mum makes bread and puts them into the dough. We are going to have a go at that tomorrow.It is strange, because her Mum doesn't always send stuff JD likes or knows
. This time though it was her Dad, he went to China where he does a lot of business and he apparently brought back lots of these little individually packed meat pieces. JD didn't know what they were, so she put the words into the translator. The first word came up duck, and the second liver. We opened one, DD flatly refused to taste it after smelling, JD and I were braver and took a TINY bite. It was very fibrous, not like liver at all. When I asked her whether she liked it she said 'yes', but I'm now able to interpret her better and her 'Yes' definitely meant 'No'! I didn't like it either, and OH refused to taste it after having a sniff. Then we gave it to the cats. One of them chewed it up, and then spat it out, so I had a real mess to clear up. I don't think they were livers, I think they might be hearts. They were cooked, because they had the jelly round them, like you get in pork pies.
When DD said that JD's dad had probably bought them home, no one liked them and as they didn't know what else to do with them, they sent them to us, JD got a fit of the giggles and agreed. We still have 6 or so in the fridge, but I suppose they will go in the bin as not even the cats will eat them
I noticed that everything is packed with silica gel, so I asked her if it was very humid out in Japan. Once I had explained what the word meant, she agreed that was the reason for it. Also the curry and stew cubes come in 5 or 10 portions, not 4 like here. She says families are generally larger in Japan than in the UK, though she is an only child.
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