To be perfectly honest I’d never eaten a fish paste product until I’d met Dan; it just hadn’t registered on my gastronomic radar. Since then I have become a devout fan, and I can’t get enough of the stuff! I love fish paste in the form of bouncy rubbery balls floating in a noodle soup, packed firmly into yong tau foo, or squeezed onto sticks, just like we found in Itsukushima.
The variety at this store was quite impressive! They were wrapped and stuffed with various ingredients such as cheese, bacon, asparagus, corn, nori, octopus, shrimp, burdock and lotus root, to name just a few. They are probably not very healthy being of the deep fried genre, but they taste great!
Oh Mellie, yong tau fu is the shit!! LOVE IT!
Fishsticks look pretty good too,
xox Sarah
Glad I’m not the only one who loves yong tau fu (or foo?!?) and fish paste. I hate to think what they’re really made from, but ignorance is bliss at the moment
those fish cakes were awesome! kind of like the German “fish” cake that I inhaled on the weekend, EG lieberkase
*shudders* urgh…lieberkase. I don’t know how you managed that hunk of processed pork paste…
I’ll stick to fish balls.