awhile
ago i suggested to alyssa that a fun feature for the site might be if we
went to the asian market and tried out a bunch of the weird asian treats
that they have there. i've been to the asian markets hundreds of time, yet
they never cease to amaze me with the odd things they have there. so, after
my mom made me go to the asian market, i decided to pick out a few things
for us to try while we did our sunday night broadcast. here's some photos
to amuse you.
the
"thai tea" was one of the drinks we tried. alyssa thought it
looked a lot like carrot juice (which i agree, it does). she also managed
to spill some of the juices on her jeans and she was orange for the rest
of the night. i don't really remember the taste of it, but i don't think
i liked it that much. it had a weird, kind of spicy after taste that i
didn't really enjoy that much. at least it was only 79 cents. at least
i didn't pay for it, either.
"how uh... tasty," thinks alyssa.
this
is tamarind candy. neither of us really liked it. my mom does though. its
sour and odd. alyssa told a lovely story about going to school in the barrio
or something. i wasn't paying attention to what she was saying. i just like
to tune her out sometimes.
here's alyssa with the "jelly joy" which is a "slurrpy
mango jelly juice" or as i like to call "weird crappy juice
with texture". the actual mango juice wasn't bad, but those little
jelly balls in it made for a horrifying experience. your juice just shouldn't
have little gelatin balls in it. we also had to squeeze the bag to get
it to come out, which resulted in a lovely sound which we shared with
the auidence. 
here
are some comments that might help you to experience that moment of fine
internet radio:
greg: jelly joy sounds disgusting.
greg: i just lost my dinner
will: i think I'm gonna warn you in a minute, that's some gross sounds
bill: btw
bill: that sound of that drink bag or whatever
it was
bill: quite disturbing
jelly joy! fun in a bag!
next up! milk candy.
alyssa
actually really liked this stuff. i'll admit it wasn't too bad. it tasted
a lot like sugary, condensed milk. it was quite creamy. alyssa ate like
nine of them at one time because she liked them so much. okay, maybe
two at a time. the best thing about them was that they had little scenes
on the packages. one was a field of cows, one was two little dutch kids
with a horn, and i don't remember the third one, but there was a third
one. maybe a milk factory something. i don't remember. the only word
on the bag i understood was "milk", everything else was in
japanese. or chinese. hell if i know.
"finally, something that tastes good!"
"cow eyes"
and
finally, we had some puto. alyssa kept prodding it through the package
and telling me how weird it felt, apparently it felt like prodding a cow's
eye to her and why she's been out prodding cow's eyes is beyond me. there
must be some unhappy cows in the world with a vendetta against alyssa.
this was the one item i knew i would like. i'd had it numerious times
at various parties when i was growing up. it's like a favorite dessert
of a lot of filipinos. i think it's tasty. alyssa didn't eat much of it.
"yum, yum!"