Choco Baby

So…the gravel pit, the one I used to play in when I wasn’t harassing jellyfish, is no longer. It’s now something safer but much more boring, a gravel parking lot. The change is okay, though, because the gravel pit will live on in my memories, just as fun Japanese candies exist in my present.

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Choco Baby! Um, baby.

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This candy’s colors and cute font caught my eye, prompting me to pick it up at the Japanese supermarket.

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Manila Mangoes, Sweet Tamarind, Dried Mangorind

While starting this Web site, one of the few things that came easiest was the tagline, “Asian Aisle…where the familiar meets the not-so-familiar.” I knew that I wanted to feature both things, in terms of Asian items, and I feel especially delighted when it’s the latter for many of you. And fortunately, another good thing that has come from this blog is that a lot of you dear readers have introduced items to me, as well…

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I’ll return to my above tease later in this post, because I’ve actually previously mentioned these type of mangoes. (Manila Mangoes are from Mexico.)

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A box of Sweet Tamarind from Thailand.

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Li Hing Powder

Look, Kitties (and Toms—male cats), I’m going to be straight with you because we’re all friends here: The way to my food-loving heart is to, um, feed me.

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Real-life friends and family know this, bless them, and so a member of the former bought me this Li Hing Powder while he was vacationing in Hawaii.

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I like to think that this friend (hey, Jesus!) was passing along this message, too.

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Thai Restaurant 3

This post will have the predictable, a wonder, and a miracle. Um, in that order.

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The predictable: Chicken Pad Thai.

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Lips Candy (Mixed Fruit)

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Altoids got nothin’ on you, Kitty

Nothin’ on you, Kitty

Will I ever stop not-so-secretly loving Hello Kitty things and singing along to catchingly annoying songs on the radio? Let’s hope not for the former. I’d say for the latter, too, but I think passengers in my car would disagree.

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