Comments on: Yummy Yuba

By: Justine

Justine — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:45:24 +0000

Hmm, I wonder who that was, Nathaniel, taking you out to eat yuba? What an eerie coincidence!

By: nathaniel

nathaniel — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:53:36 +0000

yeh, my buds from oz-land took us out for the very same earlier this week. it were indeed nummy. great to chill! –ns

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:31:32 +0000

it tasted good.

By: shana

shana — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:12:53 +0000

but.. but..
that food issue was my favorite in a long time, i’m totally with janet. but since i’ve got no chance to go to nikko any time soon … and since you’re leaving for warm weather …
(and since i’ve been working through my pile of manuscripts since 1pm yesterday, virtually uninterrupted..)
Please?

at least tell this suffering soul what it tasted like.

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:29:16 +0000

Jason: it was.

Janet: [jumps up and down] I read that article! It’s what made me want to try this restaurant in the first place. That was a fab issue of the New Yorker! Oh, how I love good food writing.

You mean it’s like cheddar in that there are superlatively sublime artisinal cheddars and then there’s the yellow crap in the supermarket?

Chris: I’m so jealous. I so want to go to Nikko. I hope you blog about it big time. I want long loving descriptions of the yuba you eat and everything else!

Shana: Secret!

By: shana

shana — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:40:14 +0000

Where?!?

By: Chris Barzak

Chris Barzak — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:55:32 +0000

Oh, and that place that’s mentioned in the wikipedia entry, Nikko? I live near there and am going to visit it next weekend. It’s gorgeous there all year around, and has a famous temple to visit, where monkeys run wild in the forest around it, and there are waterfalls and the statues of the three monkeys, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. It’s also a large part of the setting for that James Clavell novel of Japan, Shogun, I believe. I shall have some yuba while I am there!

By: Chris Barzak

Chris Barzak — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:53:05 +0000

Yuba is awesome. I LOVE that stuff. It’s like the creme de la creme of tofu. literally actually, the stuff skimmed off the top in the process of making it, according to a Japanese friend.

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westerblog » Blog Archive » Strange Pleasant Smell — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:29:10 +0000

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By: janet

janet — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:37:29 +0000

Yum.

A couple of months ago the New Yorker published its annual “food” issue. My two favorite articles were one on artisanal tofu makers in Japan, and one on short-order cooks in las vegas — quite possibly the two polar opposites of “food culture.”

but anyway, I had no idea (though I should have) that there were so many different kinds of tofu. I get the sense that u.s. supermarket tofu is to the world of tofu as cheddar cheese is to the world of cheese.

By: jason erik lundberg

jason erik lundberg — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:39:42 +0000

Wow. That does sound amazing.