Blankfist... I'm angry at you.

By posting this, I now have a craving for two things I love: dumplings and crazy chicks.

Sweetcorn dumplings? *controversial!

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Straddling Gandalf's long-muscled thigh, he positioned his hand at the still open hole,
using his own spilled seed to ease his way. Now this was the right size to do the wizard
some good! He began working his arm deeper and deeper in. Gandalf pulled his legs
further up and moaned, a lovely sound that made Bilbo hope very much for a dessert course
to follow. Pressing on, he finally got in deep enough. Yes!

"Gandalf, we hobbits call this Find the Dumpling!"

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>> ^Stingray:
Now I'm hungry...


Dumplings rule.

Glad to see you have an adventurous spirit, MG. Do you remember what was in the bento that you found so offensive? Was it animal, mineral or vegetable?

Japanese food falls into several categories. I'll list them starting with the most common/popular, to the highest cuisine styles.

1. Street food, including yakisoba, tako yaki (octopus in batter balls) and okonomi yaki (Cabbage pancakes), modan yaki, tai yaki (fish-shaped cakes filled with red beans) etc

2. Street-style bento/bowl food, including rice with seaweed and grilled salmon, chicken kara-age, gyudon (beef bowls) etc

3. Izakaya food (pub food), which is a bit like tapas, in that it's small plates of all kinds of interesting yummies, fried and otherwise. My favourite is grilled eggplant in soy sauce

4. Ramen noodle shops can range from the hole-in-the wall to more expensive restaurants, but are usually the kind of food you grab on-the-run, which is why Japanese love to slurp their ramen as fast as they can.

5. Chinese food, which is appropriated to the Japanese palate, like gyoza (fried dumplings), haru maki (spring rolls), cha han, mabo dofu (chili with tofu) etc

6. Pizza restaurants are very popular. You can sample very Japanese style pizzas, that have kim-chi (pickled cabbage) or kamaboko (fish cakes) on them. Some pasta restaurants can be quite classy, usually because they have a European trained chef.

7. Kateika which is home-cooked food, including grilled fish, like salmon and mackeral, rice, miso soup, nabe yaki (hot pots) vegie and rice dishes like gomoku gohan, curry rice, omu rice (a kind of omelette) etc


8. All-you-can-eat restaurants sell food like shabu shabu and suki yaki and are very popular, usually offer all-you-can drink as well.

9. Sushi, including sashimi and all the varieties of sushi. Some sushi places are VERY expensive.

10. Soba restaurants specialise in all kinds of traditional noodle dishes and can be quite revered for their particular style.

11. Kaiseki Ryori is high cuisine, serving some of the foods you would find in osechi ryori and include the food served at a ryokan (Inn), like clear soups with rare mountain vegies, sashimi and delicacies in seafood. We were teated to some kaiseki ryori last time we visited friends in Japan and my favourite was tiny slices of hard butter in between slivers of dried persimmon. It was delicious!

I've probably left some out, but there you have it. Even after you've lived in Japan for some time, it can be quite difficult to become comfortable with some of the high-end stuff, unless you have an absolute love of seafood in its simplest form, because the flavour is usually very subtle.

Your avatar, I think, is 오대수, the lead character in the Korean movie Oldboy. In that picture, he's eating dragon 만두. It's a freaky movie, if you haven't seen it.

In reply to this comment by legacy0100:
Most of it made sense except for these two things.

oh-dae-su (오대수)? Sounds like a typical Korean man's name.

dragon dumplings (만두)?

Most of it made sense except for these two things.

oh-dae-su (오대수)? Sounds like a typical Korean man's name.

dragon dumplings (만두)?

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만나서 반갑습니다~~

오대수 아저씨는 제얘기들을 좋아해서 너무 좋겠어요~~

Did that make sense? Anyway, glad you liked the stories. Enjoy your Dragon 만두.

Woooo congratulations
Yum:
Lemon Jelly - Nice weather for Ducks
Three Extremes - Dumplings
POLYSICS - I My Me Mine
Charles Bukowski - "Born into this"

All three segments are some of the best horror shorts I have ever seen in my life. I watched this way back in 2005ish, at Cinema Du Parc.

I never eat dumplings now.

I love dumplings!

For convenience, here are the listed ingredients:
2 ¾ Lb lamb or beef
2 Tbsp of seasoned flour
12 ½ oz onions, sliced
8 oz carrots, sliced
2 medium leeks, washed and sliced
1 large potato, peeled and diced
2 ½ pt chicken stock
salt and pepper
2 bay leaves
8 ½ fl oz red wine
7⁄8 oz butter
4 Tbsp oil

and for the dumplings:
3 7⁄8 oz self-raising flour
1 Tbsp fresh parsley
1 ¾ oz shredded suet
1 large saucepan
1 cutting board
1 serving dish
1 knife
1 slotted spoon
1 spoon
1 serving bowl

and the rest of the steps are here for those who want to print them out.

Even though lamb is traditional, I prefer beef!

"I just want some dumplings."

hahaha