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There is a God, and this is how I know this:
Someone inspired human beings to create chocolate mochi ice cream balls with chocolate chips in 'em.
I went to Kam Man Foods on Route 10 this evening, after some fruitless searching for a copy of King of Masks at Blockbuster. (They had it, but it wasn't in stock tonight.) They've just expanded from a relatively small, tightly packed store to a full-sized supermarket, and I spent a pleasant twenty minutes wandering through the aisles refusing to let myself worry about feeling like a fangirl or poseur. Had a few uncomfortable moments when I couldn't locate the Pocky despite my trying, but those passed when I hit the frozen foods area. Nothing like a big package of something flat labeled 'VEGETARIAN EAR' to perk one right up. (No, I don't know what it was supposed to be.) I then found a box of green things on sticks labeled with the letters QQ in front of a bunch of characters. It's a peculiar sort of comprehension that comes of recognizing another culture's appropriation of your own language's symbols - I've seen QQ used as a slang reference for bubble tea on the web and I know it's used in Taiwan to mean 'chewy' - so I pulled the box out. Mung bean and tapioca ice cream bars on a stick. Worked for me; I grabbed a box, and a box of my beloved chocolate mochi balls, and went wandering through the rest of the store in search of stuff that would allow me to hit the $15 minimum they wanted for a debit or credit card purchase. There was tofu of a brand I recognized, for something like $1.09; I had to get myself some, because at the local Western supermarket it's around $3.50 or so for the same amount. There were scary Japanese squishy green tea candies, so I got those too. ANd tehre was grass jelly drink, but by the time I found where they were keeping it, the market was just about to close. Couldn't browse through the cans looking for the tapioca-beaded milk tea... ah, well.
Turned out they kept the Pocky at the cash register, in the same place supermarkets like Acme or Foodtown keep the chocolate bars.
Overall, it was a good evening, and I felt much better than the last time I went to Kam Man. Hearing the little Caucasian kid behind me in line tugging at her father's sleeve and asking "Daddy, what's this, what's this?" didn't hurt, either, since I knew (bags of chewy candy). I"m not a poseur fangirl, dammit. I know what I'm doing. And that's the part that matters.
Someone inspired human beings to create chocolate mochi ice cream balls with chocolate chips in 'em.
I went to Kam Man Foods on Route 10 this evening, after some fruitless searching for a copy of King of Masks at Blockbuster. (They had it, but it wasn't in stock tonight.) They've just expanded from a relatively small, tightly packed store to a full-sized supermarket, and I spent a pleasant twenty minutes wandering through the aisles refusing to let myself worry about feeling like a fangirl or poseur. Had a few uncomfortable moments when I couldn't locate the Pocky despite my trying, but those passed when I hit the frozen foods area. Nothing like a big package of something flat labeled 'VEGETARIAN EAR' to perk one right up. (No, I don't know what it was supposed to be.) I then found a box of green things on sticks labeled with the letters QQ in front of a bunch of characters. It's a peculiar sort of comprehension that comes of recognizing another culture's appropriation of your own language's symbols - I've seen QQ used as a slang reference for bubble tea on the web and I know it's used in Taiwan to mean 'chewy' - so I pulled the box out. Mung bean and tapioca ice cream bars on a stick. Worked for me; I grabbed a box, and a box of my beloved chocolate mochi balls, and went wandering through the rest of the store in search of stuff that would allow me to hit the $15 minimum they wanted for a debit or credit card purchase. There was tofu of a brand I recognized, for something like $1.09; I had to get myself some, because at the local Western supermarket it's around $3.50 or so for the same amount. There were scary Japanese squishy green tea candies, so I got those too. ANd tehre was grass jelly drink, but by the time I found where they were keeping it, the market was just about to close. Couldn't browse through the cans looking for the tapioca-beaded milk tea... ah, well.
Turned out they kept the Pocky at the cash register, in the same place supermarkets like Acme or Foodtown keep the chocolate bars.
Overall, it was a good evening, and I felt much better than the last time I went to Kam Man. Hearing the little Caucasian kid behind me in line tugging at her father's sleeve and asking "Daddy, what's this, what's this?" didn't hurt, either, since I knew (bags of chewy candy). I"m not a poseur fangirl, dammit. I know what I'm doing. And that's the part that matters.
