No need to apologize to me.. I think it worked out for the best, now I get to watch two Komodo dragon videos.
By the way, the father of a friend of mine fell asleep on a beach in Komodo, while the rest of the group (it was a wedding party) went hiking. When they got back he was still sleeping, and there were two dragons walking up the beach towards him. They were easily scared off... but I wonder if they would have gone for the goat curry (probably) or my friend's father (more interesting) first.

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I apologize, it was the wrong embed, I've changed it to the proper one.

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This has got to be the wrong video.. Notice the tags referring to sepsis brought on by a dragon's bite. Wonderful creatures.

Sup VS. I'm in Japan again for another 2-month visit. Spending the time in beautiful Kanazawa, Ishikawa, with the same host family as last year. I've really really missed Japanese food. This time I'm here for a two-month internship, and I'm having a good time so far. Going to see three concerts this summer, two of which are my number one favorite band (the pillows) and my number three favorite band (ART-SCHOOL).

How I've missed my curry rice, sukiyaki, and pretty much every other goddamn food they have here.

Sorry for taking so long to reply! I am actually very unfamiliar with Singapore and their cuisines. I will have to check that out in my cooking searches. Sounds very promising!

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Currently my favorite Thai dish is Guay Jub w/o liver, and Red Curry w/o peanuts (they sometimes throw in whole peanuts in there, and i don't like the texture).

Thai Curry I enjoy these days is slightly different from this one. A lot more broth than this version which reminds me of 돼지 불고기, without the pork of course.

On the side note, I'm currently dying to know more about Singapore's legendary world of gastronomy. Did you find any Singapore related cooking clips while you were browsing this by any chance Issy?

^Holy cats! Do you think MrFisk is trying to curry Tofumar's favor?
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Naaaah!

EDIT: To be crystal clear, I don't think Tofumar has anything to do with MrFisk, in case my sarcasm was somehow misconstrued. In a charged litigious atmosphere as this, I believe it's important that my words are not misinterpreted in any way, shape, or form.

Currently my favorite Thai dish is Guay Jub w/o liver, and Red Curry w/o peanuts (they sometimes throw in whole peanuts in there, and i don't like the texture).

Thai Curry I enjoy these days is slightly different from this one. A lot more broth than this version which reminds me of 돼지 불고기, without the pork of course.

On the side note, I'm currently dying to know more about Singapore's legendary world of gastronomy. Did you find any Singapore related cooking clips while you were browsing this by any chance Issy?

upvote for tim curry and that woman's freaking amazing voice.

LOL! smells like curry!

Yep - it is. Many, many layers of make-up. Tim Curry was pretty brilliant casting to be play the devil.

Tom Cruise, on the other hand.... eughhh.

Not just voiced, as that's Tim Curry under all that makeup, I'm pretty sure. Somewhere.

Awesome! I think I've thoroughly enjoyed every Tim Curry movie I've ever seen.

CURRY: You don’t agree with that? It has nothing do with the economy, the war — spending on the war?
BUSH: I don’t think so...

OK. I just woke up early and read my mail in bed before knowing there were changes to see that all 6 of the videos I submitted 2 plus smidgen days ago are all discarded. I had been watching them, and they were moving a long slowly, but at the normal clip for--at least my--videos. Some weren't going to go, ever, I imagine (judy garland doesn't seem to be a siffavorite), but some were good things I thought were quite worthwhile: http://www.videosift.com/video/Lemony-Snicket-Tim-Curry-relates-12-Books-in-120-Seconds at 6 votes, for instance, or http://www.videosift.com/video/Any-Winehouse-mixed-with-Linda-Ronstadt-No-Good at 5. Hell, I have videos at 30 votes now that moved slower than that: more than one of which finished its first pass through the queue at 1 or 2 votes.

Now, I pretty much never have videos that move faster than those two. Should I just move along now, and I'm done sifting videos? Suddenly waking up to have 6 messages from sifty makes me feel like my services are no longer desired. I know for me it's still sleeping time, and I am probably being unnecessarily gloomy, but honestly, I feel like I've been dumped by my boyfriend.

It's not like I'm necessarily against the new features: I don't know the new features and I don't have a feel for the new features. They came in the dark of the night and kicked me in the teeth. They are shiny new features of a place that is no longer my home.

I know you folks like to keep things quiet while you unveil them, but I doubt I would feel so discouraged if I had had any notice instead of just suddenly having my queue unexpectedly flushed.

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.

"The Red Pony" movie shows a "cleaned up" version of America's Nazi salute from 1949 (well after WWII was over). http://rexcurry.net/pledge2.html In the film, the Pledge is being distanced as the source of the salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as exposed by the historian Dr. Rex Curry (author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets"). http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance.jpg The government and its government schools (socialist schools) were effective in their propaganda to cover up their truth about the Pledge even in the cinema. Even so, the film "The Red Pony" (1949) does it poorly, as it continues to show the mechanical chanting in unison, in military formation, on command in socialist schools. Note that even the original military salute (the initial salute) appears to have been dropped (the military salute was extended out and thus led to the classic palm-down stiff-arm salute). Also in this fictional film version, the arms are kept low. The arms are so low that the children are begging for handouts from their socialist government, like panhandlers asking for spare change. It fits with the National Socialist dogma of Francis Bellamy (the Pledge's author), Edward Bellamy (his cousin) and the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (~60 million slaughtered), the Peoples' Republic of China (~50 million slaughtered), and the National Socialist German Workers Party (~20 million slaughtered).

Not to be eaten raw EVER! Cooking them into a dish is great though. I've never used this one, but I make a habanero chicken curry that's to DIE for. I only need two of them to make enough for 5 or 6 folks to get lit up.