arioch
Enlightened
I know that just about every locale has one or more type of food that is "special" to that area, that is either unique or done better than "anywhere else". With the many places that CPF members hail from, I was wondering about all of your "special" foods that you consider your own.
I live here on Maui, Hawaii, and one of the unique things we sell here is GuriGuri. It is sold in one family owned store. It is basically a frozen sherbet type of dessert made from ... soy beans! And don't even talk to me about that Tofutti cr#p. This stuff is the bomb!
We also have Shishido manju ... unfortunately, the family closed the business after many decades of service. Manju is kind of a flour pastry filled with red bean filling. The Shishido family made it rather well.
Kitchen Cooked Maui potato chips are pretty good. And the chocolate dipped ones are really tasty!
Kula onions are very mild onions; almost sweet in flavor (heard it is sometimes eaten like an apple, although I have not tried it like that). It is compared favorably against the better known WallaWalla onion (I think that's what they're called /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif).
Anyway, that's a sample of what we've got here. Would be nice to read about what you all have there in "your neck of the woods". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I live here on Maui, Hawaii, and one of the unique things we sell here is GuriGuri. It is sold in one family owned store. It is basically a frozen sherbet type of dessert made from ... soy beans! And don't even talk to me about that Tofutti cr#p. This stuff is the bomb!
We also have Shishido manju ... unfortunately, the family closed the business after many decades of service. Manju is kind of a flour pastry filled with red bean filling. The Shishido family made it rather well.
Kitchen Cooked Maui potato chips are pretty good. And the chocolate dipped ones are really tasty!
Kula onions are very mild onions; almost sweet in flavor (heard it is sometimes eaten like an apple, although I have not tried it like that). It is compared favorably against the better known WallaWalla onion (I think that's what they're called /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif).
Anyway, that's a sample of what we've got here. Would be nice to read about what you all have there in "your neck of the woods". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif