Food Quest

[example22]

My quest to be the stereotypical jaded-metro-yuppie-Guardianista-Islingtonite continues! So it's off to Borough Market to exercise my hunter-gatherer instincts in search of olive bread and nettle cheese (no, really).

But I go off the rails a bit on the way back, and pop in to the unappealing-looking Lithuanian shop under the arches at London Bridge. It also turns out to be unappealing-smelling, and of course it shakes violently every couple of minutes because of the trains. But it's packed with unidentifiable groceries!

So I am now the proud owner of: a rattan basket of biscuits that look like tiny beige snails and are called "sausainiai riču raču", a bag of glaistyti zefyrai ("coated zephyrs", it says here) which I think are probably chocolate-covered meringues, and an ominous sausage labelled "šaltai rūkyta KRIVIO dešra". Ping is not impressed, so it may all end up as a nutritionally-unsound packed lunch for Picocon. Anybody want a coated zephyr?

Comments

[example22.livejournal.com]

Malaysian green cake is pandan-flavoured, isn't it? There's a stall that sells it in Oriental City; I love the slightly rubbery, not-found-in-nature texture it has. Consider it added to my mental list of plausible bribes for tots...

Methi: odd, isn't it? The only place I ever found it was Brick Lane (in a box that would have lasted me for a decade, at least), but it's an ingredient in every second recipe. Perhaps true curry fans grow it in their gardens?

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think it is Pandan flavoured - not that I'd recognise a pandan if it tried to copulate with my cat - or indeed if I ate it.
Our ancient methi supply (still edible but a little past its best) comes from a trip to Brick Lane in a long-ago lunchbreak - maybe such things will again be possible.