Food, Food, and More Food Thread

krim wrote:low quality meat has an oily flavor vs the buttery flavor of the good stuff.. small difference, but enough.

I agree...I don't eat that many steaks (not to say I don't eat a lot of meat, I do) but I don't usually buy steaks anywhere aside from Mitsuwa. I like the steak there because they sell Prime and the sizes are rather small, not gargantuan brontosaurus steaks.....@ Mitsuwa the steak does have that butterly flavor as opposed to that oily flavor

Somewhat interesting news. The high prices on the menu doesn't make the restaurant clean.


Mice, roaches close home of $25,000 dessert
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan restaurant that unveiled a record-breaking $25,000 dessert last week has been forced to shut its doors temporarily due to an infestation of mice and cockroaches.

Serendipity 3 on the Upper East Side failed its second consecutive health inspection in a month on Wednesday night after health officials found a live mouse, mouse droppings in multiple places, flies and dozens of live cockroaches, the Heath Department said.

"We're rectifying it as quickly as we can," said owner Steven Bruce, adding the restaurant would then be allowed to reopen.

Serendipity 3 set a Guinness world record on November 7 for the most expensive dessert when it partnered with luxury jeweler Euphoria New York to create "Frrozen Haute Chocolate," a blend of 28 cocoas fused with 0.2 ounces of edible 23-karat gold.

It comes with an 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of white diamonds at the base of the goblet. The sundae is topped with whipped cream covered with more gold and a side of La Madeline au Truffle from Knipschildt Chocolatier, which sells for $2,600 a pound.

The desert is a more decadent take on Serendipity's $8.50 "Frrrozen Hot Chocolate," which the talk show host Oprah Winfrey once endorsed by saying it made her want to "dance on the chandeliers." Bruce also has a $1,000 ice cream sundae on the menu called Golden Opulence.

thtl wrote:A couple of years ago I got 2 piece of the above from a high-end supermarket in HK, and cooked it for our anniversary (my wife loves my steaks). As it turns out she was a bit put off by the buttery flavour of the steak - it's the fat. I ended up with half her portion but was forbidden to buy anything other than fillet for her again. :sweat:

Perfect: you get the Matsusuka beef and she gets the fillet next time, and you save some cash... :D

Cold Case: Tourists Nabbed Trying To Smuggle Japanese Beef Into China


The luggage cases were cold to the touch. That was the first clue for Shanghai airport officials who found $54,000 worth of illegal Japanese beef in tourist luggage, according to the Shanghai Daily.

On Nov. 3, officials discovered luggage filled with 800 kilograms of Japanese beef on a flight from Osaka and 160 kilograms in luggage on a flight from Tokyo as tourists tried to pass customs with their beef bounty.

Just five days later, acting on a tip, airport officials found 26 boxes of Japanese beef weighing 530 kilograms and three boxes of tuna, all hidden in boxes labeled "mechanical parts".

The Inspection and Quarantine Bureau detained the smugglers and destroyed all the beef, the newspaper said, in accordance with China's ban on Japanese beef imports due to concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).



Source: Janie Gabbett on 11/16/2007 for Meatingplace.com

Hmm, that's weird... You'd expect the worry would be with the beef going in the other direction, considering how apparently poorly regulated stuff coming out of China is (lead in toys, bad dog food, etc.)...

bmwracer wrote:Hmm, that's weird... You'd expect the worry would be with the beef going in the other direction, considering how apparently poorly regulated stuff coming out of China is (lead in toys, bad dog food, etc.)...

Lead-laden beef is considered a delicacy and is not to leave the country.

Tu_triky wrote:
The Inspection and Quarantine Bureau detained the smugglers and destroyed all the beef, the newspaper said, in accordance with China's ban on Japanese beef imports due to concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

The Customs people usually do the destroying the beef by slicing it up and putting it into a boiling pot of broth, then immersing it into their GI tract which leads to a pool of biogenic form of hydrochloric acid. :mrgreen:

thtl wrote:The Customs people usually do the destroying the beef by slicing it up and putting it into a boiling pot of broth, then immersing it into their GI tract which leads to a pool of biogenic form of hydrochloric acid. :mrgreen:

LOL.

"Waste not, want not." :hehe:

thtl wrote:

The Customs people usually do the destroying the beef by slicing it up and putting it into a boiling pot of broth, then immersing it into their GI tract which leads to a pool of biogenic form of hydrochloric acid. :mrgreen:

How efficient.

:hehe:

Watching America's Test Kitchen right now... They're making Thai curry.

Japanese R2D2 Shoyu Dispenser....geek out b*tches.

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If they've got one that dispenses Ra-yu, I'm sooo there. :beaten: :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:If they've got one that dispenses Ra-yu, I'm sooo there. :beaten: :hehe:

it comes out of 3P0's butt. :hehe:

Tu_triky wrote:it comes out of 3P0's butt. :hehe:

*having second thoughts* :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
*having second thoughts* :sweat:

LOL.....don't worry he did say in Star Wars

"This oil bath is going to feel so good...I've got such a bad case of dust contamination."

Tu_triky wrote:LOL.....don't worry he did say in Star Wars

"This oil bath is going to feel so good...I've got such a bad case of dust contamination."

That doesn't ease my mind. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
That doesn't ease my mind. :hehe:

it might ease your taste buds though.....

Had a few bites of some desserts at a recent family gathering. From top right: chocolate cake, sweet potato manju, pumpkin crunch bar, some chocolate dessert, and butter mochi. The pumpkin one was my fave. :D

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Also went to a craft fair and picked up some goodies. From top: oatmeal cinnamon raisin walnut cookies, pretzels, raisin energy bar, cranberry energy bars.

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So many desserts and it's not even Thanksgiving yet. :sweat:

So which one of those are you sending me?

bmwracer wrote:So which one of those are you sending me?

I'd send you the pudding one, but it would probably spoil by the time it gets to you. :beaten: But don't worry, I plan on sending you something for the holidays. :mrgreen: