#not drinks

[daveydalek]

Y'all I'm going to bed I can't handle my throat hurting/being dry anymore today 😕

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Happy (Belated) Mid Autumn 中秋節快樂, Official SNOWSKIN Mooncake Edition (Iced Lemon Tea Flavour) 冰皮月餠

(TLDR: 1) I’m late 2) time is broke 3) mooncake economy 4) chang’e 5) snowskin mooncake 6) actual review)

Sorry I’m late but my friend’s mom just psychoanalyzed my dreams earlier and revealed some surprisingly insightful personal insecurities which was unexpected because I was fully prepared for an exorcism instead. I’m very grateful she took the time and energy to do it though! And then straight afterwards the orange president of United States got COVID. 

One of my favourite holidays, hands down, love the mooncakes, love the dragons, the lanterns, the fireworks, sad this year is still both somehow still in July but also already been 3 years and the false illusion of linear time has finally broken. In honour of that, and what is left, we pray to the moon our family and friends are well, the roundness of the moon reflecting our eventual reunion (round in chinese sounds like reunion), and personally I also like to wish the moon well for the rest of the year. It got back to me, 3 hours later, in the form of a head of state getting a virus he didn’t believe in but witnessed many die from. The best writers couldn’t make this up. 

Even though there’s no festivities this year, our family still managed to get mooncakes to each other, per tradition, so that the yearly mooncake exchange ring is never broken. There is something deeply hilarious to me about how insane mooncakes can get. Like, everyone gives everyone else mooncakes, so you have entirely too many mooncakes, and you can’t possibly finish them all, and also some mooncakes are incredibly dense like half a mooncake is a full meal, so you don’t open them and pass it to another family like your own, like you bought it yourself, and then they pass something back to you that someone else got them which they got from someone else, and there is a very real possibility a mooncake might end up full circle with its original owner. The  Mooncake Economy. Cue the music from Directed By Robert B. Weide.

Anyway, mom and I went to “chase the moon” (追月) so we can admire it (赏月) because there is a lovely lady 嫦娥 (pronounced in cantonese as, um, sueng-oogh, I don’t know how to type cantonese sounds in english it’s difficult okay it’s not like pinyin (in mandarin it’s chang-e)) who lives there with a white bunny and a woods axe man and she’s there either as a punishment or reward (depending on who you ask), because she was either selfish or selfless or ignorant (regional variations??) when she ate the immortal pill her husband the masterful archer Hou Yi ( 后羿 ) was awarded after shooting down 9 of the 10 suns because they were making the world too hot. She floated up immediately after taking the pills. Pictured is my mom looking at the moon through my little baby national geographic telescope. It didn’t really show any moon details; it was just a big white ball of light. 

This second round of Mid Autumn post is where I comment on an actual mooncake! The snowskin mooncake, wildly popular and largely believed to originate from Hong Kong (some say it comes from Singapore), is everyone’s favourite. It’s much less dense than more traditional varieties, much sweeter, perfect for a dessert, and has a chewy mochi-esque skin (or maybe it is mochi, honestly I have no idea how they make it) surrounding an ice cream-slushie (depending on how long you freeze / defreeze it) texture inside, replacing lotus paste. And it comes in different flavours! This one I had is the Iced Lemon Tea flavour, apt for a drinks blog. 

Iced Lemon Tea Flavour Snow Skin Mooncake

From: yeemaaa + shifu

From the Maxim Cha Can Ting 茶餐廳 Collection, and Oh it’s so good. Oooohhhh it’s so gooooooood. Very clear lemon tea flavour, so the slight shadow of acidic sourness pairs very well with the sweet side. Just a hint of tang to spice things up. I’m actually getting a very clear aftertaste of hk iced lemon tea. It’s so good. Mom says it tastes like lemon cola, and unlike usual mooncakes. She says it’s okay. 

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interrupting the regularly scheduled drinks to bring you the best god damn fish I have ever tasted in my life, and it was at the George Brown Culinary College student-run restaurant, The Chef's House. I went over two years ago now, and the menu changes every so often, so I'm not sure if I'm correct to say it was probably the pan seared sea bass? That's what I spot on the menu now and I think that lines up pretty close. I don't remember in what way specifically it was good, only that it was good in every way, and I loved it, and I wished there were more of it, and I loved it, pan seared sea bass (allegedly) my beloved

[decapodparty]

trader joe must have put something nefarious in his gingerbread oat creamer because two sips of coffee with this diabolical concoction have made me and my friend so nauseous we cant move

[yvachiskl]

Hello Tumblr I'm extremely blitzed tonight have a picture I drew of lopunny from memory

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This post is exclusively buns. Gold dusted, charcoal coloured, warm liquid gold custard filled buns. Ambrosia. Food of the gods.

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I consider anything I cook to be a great accomplishment.

Oh wait I made those noodles from scratch - this is an accomplishment! It took me 3 hours to make and 10 - 15 minutes to eat, much like a roller coaster experience in theme parks.