you are what you eat
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Tagged: kanon, kanon:ayu
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Should I be worried that more of my visitors voted for the Itsuki than the meido? Let’s just move on.
New poll courtesy of Mangator:
I have a suggestion for your next poll… “What anime-related food would you like to try, just once?â€
o Akiko’s “special†jam-mu (Kanon 2006)
o Shana’s melon bread (NOT her melonpan) (Shakugan no Shana)
o Ja-pan (Yakitate!! Japan)
o Jet’s special bell peppers and beef (What makes it special? No beef) (Cowboy Bebop)
o The Legendary Cutlet Sandwich (Kimagure Orange Road)
o RAMEN SETTO! (Black Cat)
o Smoked cheese, nyoro~ (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu)
o Udon from the Fox (xxxHOLiC)
o Little Prince Brand Curry (It’s milder… for kids!) (FLCL)
o Camembert cheese and fish crepes (melty!!!) (Oruchuban Ebichu)
o Otoro sushi (Ouran High School Host Club)
o Grilled eel rice bowl (all-you-can-eat) (Samurai Champloo)
o Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust Hawaiian pizza (Code Geass)
Great suggestions. Fantastic comment. Mr Data, make it so! I’ll use my favorite ten anime food items though:
- Akiko’s “special†jam-mu: I’d like to know what the heck this is made of. I just hope it’s not Mr. Minase.
- Wilhelmina ‘s discount melonpan: I was shopping in Nijiya (the Japanese supermarket in Sunnyvale) the other week, and some little kid was bugging his parents to buy “melonpan” in heavily accented Japanese speech until the mom gave up and bought some. Reminded me of Shana.
- Ja-pan: Technically, Azuma hasn’t developed this yet, has he? Though knowing AoMM’s audience, I’m changing this entry to “Tsukino-flavored French bread.”
- Smoked cheese, nyoro~: OMFG. Brainstorm. Smoked cheese pan pizza! Quick! Get me Pizza Hut corporate headquarters!
- Camembert cheese and fish crepes: I was going to toss this entry in even if I suspect most of this blog’s audience hasn’t seen Ebichu. I mean, if most people haven’t seen Kanon 2002 yet, I doubt they’ve seen something from the past millennium. I know a comment is made of win when I see an Ebichu reference; however, a bit obscure so I’m replacing this entry with something a bit more timely: Onimaru ramen. Dine-in, of course.
- Ootori-styled otoro sushi: This stuff is great. I went to this sushi givaway at a new restaurant opening, and they had otoro for free. I was like, “OMFG” and quickly smoked cheesed two servings. Fresh otoro is normally around ~$15 a serving in the Bay Area. Delicious. Bourgeois, but delicious.
- Little Prince brand curry: “Wait, that TV talked?!?” “Yeah, it’s one of those new PlayStation 3’s with those Cell processors.”
- Mutusmi and Nanami Farms watermelon: Remember back in 2001 when we only had “Mutsumi’s melons” as our goto phrase for, uh, curves? Of course you do. Nowadays, it just feels like there’s more choices. Life-like texture!
- Mahoro’s shao long bao: One of my personal favorite foods. After trying shao long baos from around the world, the best has to be the the Ding Tai Fong in Toronto.
- Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust Hawaiian pizza: The greatest anime meal ever would be “Pizza Hut Tsukino-flavored smoked cheese pizza with otoro, curry, and melon with Akiko jam-mu-stuffed crust.”
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Mmm, food from the Kitsune probably would’ve been delicious, and I’d vote for Jet’s bell peppers and beef just because Cowboy Bebop was so lovely. Pity they didn’t make the cut.
The pizza would be nice, but it’s too ordinary. I guess I’ll go with Akiko’s jam–it certainly promises to be interesting. I’ll be sure to inflict it on house guests.
Really, really tough choices…
…but maybe if I can get my hands on some fine smoked cheese I could set up a Churuya-san trap…
I’d go for Akiko’s special jam-mu, just so I can say I survived it. xD
It’s amazing how much blood has been spilled due to that camembert cheese… I was happy to see that selling for a high price in Japan during my travels…
I just had a delicious dinner of Omelet Rice ( refer to ARIA series ) today. Tomorrow, we will try to Egg Flower Hamburg Steak ( Rozen Maiden series ).
Nuts, why not promote American Culinary Imperialism and offer the “all you can eat” option or at least a ranked choice ballot?
Decisions, decisions….
I’d ask for Akiko’s special jam-mu but then run away without eating it. Then I can sell it to foreign dictators who will use it to poison defectors. It will be completely untraceable!
I dunno Ramen setto sounds damn good after all the emphasis yukito put on it in the first ep of air, I was like, what am I missing?
What? Where’s my Mai’s Ramen?
I think Megumi’s bread ought to be the best. She is extremely competent. With proper encouragement (e.g. if someone was her mortal enemy) she could be a guest star in Yakitake Japan. Too bad she’s not in the poll, only her nemesis is — as far as I can tell.
Also… The link to the old post only brings up the new poll. Probably the blogging software can only run one poll at a time.
So, I’ll never know what “itsuki vs. meido meant”.
>>> After trying shao long baos from around the world, the best has to be the the Ding Tai Fong in Toronto.
Interesting. Din Tai Fung’s official website does not list a Toronto branch store:
http://www.dintaifung.com.tw/eng/
There is no mention of a San Fransisco branch store either, but apparently there is a restaurant with the same name there too. Maybe some of their chefs ran away and set up unofficial stores in random places.
Anyway, Din Tai Fung does have the best xiao long bao (and the best chicken soup too). I’ve only been to the main store in Taiwan though, so I’m not sure about the overseas branch stores. I plan to go to the LA branch this Christmas to try out the official branch store there, but maybe I’ll go try the San Fransico one too.
>> Should I be worried that more of my visitors voted for the Itsuki than the meido? Let’s just move on.
Maybe it’s a result of this “fap first, worry later” philosophy running amok. Time to get the killer lolis back here and remind us what real women are.
I’d try the OH GEASS NO!! pizza because it’s fattening and I can probably order some in real life if I ever felt like it.
>> Should I be worried that more of my visitors voted for the Itsuki than the meido? Let’s just move on.
I voted Itsuki because yaoi is hot. O-Haruhi-sama needs to make a BL movie for the 2nd season of her show, in which future bunny waitress Mikuru tries to protect Itsuki-kun from the forbidden passions of Kyon.
“Tsukino-flavored French bread.â€
… …
Just think about that for a minute.
Just, just roll it around in your head for a bit.
Did it click yet?
I bet it did.
For the Win and all the Smoked Cheeses on the interwebs.
what? no mai ramen to compete with onimaru ramen? if not that, where’s the mai buffet? i feel cheated…
>> Interesting. Din Tai Fung’s official website does not list a Toronto branch store
The Markham store is a copycat. But I’ve been to the Taipei and Arcadia branches, and the Markham copy is the best. The Arcadia branch wasn’t very good when I tried it– the shao long bao didn’t have the same copious amounts of juice that I expect from a Ding Tai Fung name. Maybe just an off day for them. Taipei Stone House has great shao long bao for the Silicon Valley area. Never really had good shao long bao in SF… it’s mostly Cantonese. The Taiwanese kinda hang out in the Fremont/SJ/South Bay area.
>>>> The Markham store is a copycat. But I’ve been to the Taipei and Arcadia branches, and the Markham copy is the best. The Arcadia branch wasn’t very good when I tried it– the shao long bao didn’t have the same copious amounts of juice that I expect from a Ding Tai Fung name. Maybe just an off day for them. Taipei Stone House has great shao long bao for the Silicon Valley area. Never really had good shao long bao in SF… it’s mostly Cantonese. The Taiwanese kinda hang out in the Fremont/SJ/South Bay area.
Thanks for all the info! I’d check out this Taipei Stone House that you speak of (I actually live in the Silicon Valley), but a quick search on google seems to indicate that the place has closed down. o_0
My favorite food from Din Tai Fung is actually the Steamed Chicken Soup though. Did you try that at the Arcadia store?
>> 17
Yeah, that’s right; I forgot. It got replaced with HC Dumpling recently. I haven’t been there yet due to the lines I see every time I go.
No, I didn’t try the chicken soup. I usually only get the steamed stuff and the sticky rice cakes when I visit a Din Tai Fung. Maybe I’ll try next time.
Heh.. Ebichu is made full of win.. However, what I want to know is who the hell Andy Holyfield is. You know, the narrator for EBICHUMAN. It’s an English name, with an American accent, but speaking in Engrish.
I have never seen Kanon ’02, but that doesn’t mean I don’t watch anime ffrom before 2000…
>> 18
Hmm…. This HC Dumpling restaurant seems to be getting good reviews. Maybe I’ll try it out some time.
I really recommend the chicken soup or chicken noodle soup from Din Tai Fung. Hopefully, the Arcadia store will do a good job making them. My mom and my sister also like the veggie and pork dumplings, but I prefer the xiao long bao to those.
Akiko’s “special” jam-mu..!
since getting pizza can be found easily…
otoro sushi and eel rice bowl can be found easily also… :P
TSUKINO FTW!!!
I’d love to try her flavour
Tsukino bread? Never heard of it..I Must be missing out..
Nyoro~n…
The only one of your choices I don’t recognize is Onimaru ramen. What series is that from?
Muteki Kanban Musume
From Muteki Kanban Musume
don’t forget you can see ‘Ramen Setto’ in Air too!
E-bi-chu henshin! I hold back on the Ebichu commentary mainly because it’s so obscure, and there is something about Ebichu that never quite settled with me. Maybe it was the fact that Ebichu, voiced by Mitsuishi Kotono (Sailor Moon), was always shrieking in the background while her owner (voiced by Tomizawa Michie [Sailor Mars]) was having sex with her boyfriend (voiced by Seki Tomokazu). At the time I had just gone on a mahou shoujo binge and watched all of Sailormoon and Card Captor Sakura within that year… then went to Ebichu. It was like going from AMG to Midnight Sleazy Train Rail 2.
I admit it, I’m smoked by “Tsukino-flavored French bread” and “Little Prince brand curry”. Any hints?
I think I’ve been to the Markham one – it’s in that mall near that Vietnamese noodle house… can’t remember the name of that noodle house, though. I must agree about the shao long baos though – a pity they’re losing at this point; I guess it’s because the manga and anime are just that old…
This blog is making me hungry…
I’d go with Akiko’s special jam-mu, just so to recreate the same scenario like the above picture with Ayu. Hopefully from there, a path-ala-Hisui will then open up.
All those who voted for smoked cheese obviously never had to live with someone who was addicted to the stuff – student lodgings: you go in expecting to hear hot sex through the walls and end up with smoked cheese in the fridge.
@Rivensteel:
>>I admit it, I’m smoked by “Tsukino-flavored French bread†and “Little Prince brand curryâ€. Any hints?
“Little Prince brand curry” was served by Haruhara Haruko in the “Furry Curry” episode of FLCL. I believe that episode should be coming up tonight on Adult Swim…
“Bathroom? Over there.”
The secret ingredient of Akiko’s Jamu?
http://bin.4chan.org/a/src/1165966041007.png
I voted Akiko’s Jam, it looks as trippy as the hashish jam described in Baudelaire’s “Les Paradis Artificiels”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....rtificiels
Since melon bread and melonpan is the same, why can`t I have Shana`s melonpan instead?
Oh lord, give me any of the first three choices and I’ll probably suffer a heart attack of happiness..
>>Mahoro’s shao long bao: One of my personal favorite foods. After trying shao long baos from around the world, the best has to be the the Ding Tai Fong in Toronto.
Wow… are you from Toronto and working in Cali or something? You keep mentioning Canada and now you know of this wonderful store in Markham (awesome food there if a bit expensive). Or maybe you just happen to go all around the world in search for the perfect ding tai fong (and copycats;) )
>> Wow… are you from Toronto and working in Cali or something?
I have some family in Toronto. I go there maybe once every two years. Next time I go, we should have an AoMM gathering at Ding Tai Fung. Actually, scratch that. (*thinks of all the YTAMR comments and gets scared*)
I voted Itsuki because I like Itsuki. He’s cute, isn’t he? ^^