hot and sour egg drop wonton soup

[mindstalk]

Why choose?

Chili-lime instant ramen with vinegar, an egg, and gyoza. Also black pepper, garlic powder, ginger power, really firm tofu, and some corn chips.

I'm not sure I can actually taste the egg but hey more protein and calories.

I would have really liked green onion but for some reason I'm short on non-frozen vegetables.

Comments

[prixmium]

One of the things I miss most about Japan is how they put green onions on an alarming number of food items.

[mindstalk]

Hah! I kind of know what you mean but don't have a mental catalogue, do you have examples?

I only got into them a few years ago, making salads for W (before she moved to Japan, as it happens), but yeah, salads and soups and some pasta. Allium kick with more color and less work, but also less fresh life.

[prixmium]

They just seemed to put them on like half the steak dishes I ever ate, in soup, etc.

[mindstalk]

Hmm, reading has given me the idea of freezing scallions, or planting them in water jars.

A post noted that we say onion and green onion, but in Japan you have negi and tamanegi, "ball negi" for onions.

Of course some of their negi is a much longer and thicker plant.

[prixmium]

I really don't know anything about it beyond the point of it being served to me in, like, Matsuya and Gusto.

I really wish I were more in tune with... anything practical, but not exactly?

[mindstalk]

Well, you stimulated me to get 5 bunches on today's shopping run, chopping and freezing three of them, and putting the rest in jars of water to see if they stay fresh or regrow. And now I have scallions on ramen and the last of my tofu.

[prixmium]

That's cool! I've been thinking about trying to regrow some things but have never ever tried.

[mindstalk]

Not that hard to start. I've just plunked them into a glass of water; supposedly this will get some growth out. I assume the necessary minerals will be cannibalized from the roots/bulbs. Easier to see how water would keep them from wilting. Sustained growth would take dirt and I'm a traveler, or was...