Comments on: Vegetarian Buckwheat Noodles with Young Organic Pickled Ginger

By: piamac

piamac — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:03:00 +0000

I love this, but it never occurred to me that we could make it at home! Thanks also for the tips, betty q., my stomach is grumbling already.

By: Lilibeth

Lilibeth — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:21:44 +0000

Alilay: Thank you so much for all that information. I will try and go to Chinatown this weekend and I hope I find the store where you say the dried scallops are whiter. Thanks.

By: Cris Jose

Cris Jose — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:01:28 +0000

To Ally & Mila : Thanks for the info… :)

By: marilen

marilen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:09:56 +0000

It is a lovely day – all these food chatter and helpful exchanges again! Thank you MM and all who participate and comment thoughtfully, generously, wittily.

By: joyce

joyce — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:13:40 +0000

i make these at home as well ;P but with the soba sauce ( i cant read the label, just asked a japanese person in the store which dip was for soba), a pinch of grated ginger, sugar and a squirt of wasabi. sometimes i mix it with seasoned laver on top or flaked tuna.

By: alilay

alilay — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:15:25 +0000

Lilibeth, you can get the dried scallops and hibe (packed in 1 lb. bag) sa Chinatown at the Tak Shing Hong Grocery 835 N. Broadway LA 90012 213-628-8333 and there is also a store who sell them unpacked in fact same price at mas maganda ang klase mas whiter ba siya i forgot the cross st. basta nasa broadway din siya maybe a few blocks from the arko of chinatown.

By: Lilibeth

Lilibeth — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:42:03 +0000

Great, Betty Q, thanks! I get my prosciutto from Costco which is very near my place. LA Chinatown is close by too – 10 mins. away. Thank you so much. I am getting hungry already after looking at Marketman’s XO fried rice.

By: betty q.

betty q. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:55:56 +0000

Ted: you, too? sent me an e-mail? Oh, dear …this is MAJOR HINAYUPAK na annoying!!!! I was beginning to think that you guys all ditched me!

By: betty q.

betty q. — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:47:39 +0000

Lilibeth…no need to go out and look for Chinese ham. an excellent sub is prosciutto. You can buy as much as you need to make. I can always buy it in nearby grocery stores and don’t need to make a field trip to Chinatown (it takes me 45 minutes to go there and that is travelling on the freeway!)

I am positive you can buy the dried scallops in LA. Maria Clara or Alilay can tell you where! Now, when you find it, don’t go overboard and buy as I have said before the primera clase…go for the really tiny ones that when you soak it will be just about the size of bay scallops. That will do since you are going to shred or process it anyway. No one will ever know it is the cheapest ones…Besides, who cares? Once they eat your fried rice with XO, nothing you say will register in their brain! All they will ask you is if they can make BAON (to take home!)

By: Lilibeth

Lilibeth — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:14:42 +0000

Sorry made a mistake, I meant Hoc Shiu ham and not Yunnan ham which is in cans and which they do have in Chinatown.