Food Obsession Update

[forestofglory]

I've been slowly rewatching the drama and updating my giant list of food and drink as I go. Its now updated through episode 6. I missed quite few things the first time around -- sorry about that.

I've also added episode headings to post to try to break up the wall of text effect -- but I'm not sure that I like them. I'm still thinking about the best way to organize this info -- I'm not really sure what the most helpful to people. Let me know if you have thoughts. At some point I will probably add some of this to the wiki, but not until I finish my rewatch.

I also did a bit more research into dried fish since many of us where uncertain if the dried fish Lin Jing eats in the first episode is normal snack food or not. I could track down that exact fish (it looks very picturesque hanging out of Lin Jing's mouth) but I did find several articles like this one suggesting that dried seafood in generally is common snack food.

Comments

[in_the_bottle]

Frankly, it reminds me of dried anchovies. Which is quite common in Asia and can be used in cooking in a lot of ways, and if you just fried it, you can just eat it by itself as well. There's a version that you add sugar to it so it caramelise with the anchovies and the sweet/salty combo is quite good. I have been known to just snack through a whole bunch of them as a child, much to the dismay of my parents...

[forestofglory]

Hmm... the dried anchovies look like they are a bit smaller than the fish Lin Jing was eating but otherwise seem similar. The caramelized sugar version sounds good and I don't even like fish most of the time!

[in_the_bottle]

I just googled the chinese name of the fish and apparently its small yellowfin tuna...

[forestofglory]

Thanks! I didn't realize that tuna came that small.

What is the Chinese name? (Googling dried tuna in English does not get me any relevant results)

[in_the_bottle]

小黄鱼(xiao3 huang2 yu2)

Did a bit more googling, and it seems like its not actually tuna, but croakers.

[forestofglory]

Thanks so much! I've edited the main post with this info and like pointing back to this comment thread