Them kookie asians! One of my favorite activites in the whole wide world is to go to the giant China market that is in Midvale. I can spend hours and hours in there reading labels and trying to figure out what exactly is in my hand. It is like a zoo but for food. I love it so much. Angie and Jan were good sports and came with me, and we found all sorts of crazy things. We found a can of fried gluten, a huge circle of seaweed that looked like a monster loofah, a giant prickley fruit called a jack fruit, a wok big enough to sit in, a doughnut peach(which was yummy), a bannana blossom, a variety of strange roots, and a bag of jelly fish. There were all sorts of other things of note. Octopus flavored potato chips, squid jerky, purple yam jam, green twinkies(they were pandan flavored, whatever that is), all sorts of goodies! It makes sense that if you live on the other side of the world that you have other ingredients. We even bought some to taste test. It was so much fun! And now we have some new favorites. Calpico is so yummy. It is this yogurt soda, yan yans are biscuit sticks dipped in icing, hello pandas are choloate filled cookies with adorable little cartoon pandas on them. Also it is just fun to read all of the english on the packages. One box of rice cakes had the slogan. "Sweet and yummy like an innocent world." I love Asains!