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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Well, it could be hard boiled eggs that you're referring to, or if you mean the cylinders with a hole in the center, those are called chikuwa (which is as close as I can come in English,) which is basically the same ground fish that is used to make fake crab but with a different flavor. You might know it as surimi.
There are actually a LOT of round things in Oden. Balls, ovals, tubes, flat rounds, rounds of daikon, carrot, etc. Most of the various round things are made from that surimi, (ground fish that has no fish flavor at all,) and are different colors and tastes. You can find tofu, chicken, beef, cabbage, shitake mushrooms, mochi (rice cakes) konyaku, all cooked for several hours in a delicious broth that varies from one region of Japan to another. This is also common street vendor food in the winter, and you can find this (below) sort of pot cooking in every 7-Eleven in Japan! All supermarkets sell large (and small) bags of these mixed ingredients along with a bag of broth, so making it at home is nothing more than dumping it all into a large pot and cooking for an hour or two. The longer it cooks the better it tastes! This is all eaten with a Japanese mustard called Karashi, which translates roughly to too bloody hot! Really good stuff. I'm happy to eat it at least one meal every week, be it breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
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it was the tube things. they are kind of disturbing looking
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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I've been in Europe for a month now. I am really craving southern US Chinese food from my fave place back home. And homemade biscuits and gravy. And Luzianne iced tea.
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I didn't know you were going! lucky girl! where are you?
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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Trebuchet some over to me. I'm sick of pastry and boiled eggs for breakfast.
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so terrible for you...*sigh*