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SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I kinda like watching the seafood ones, which can be very interesting and weird, although it can be kinda gross to see the fish and various other creatures being cut up, sometimes killed on the spot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7xyVXmEr74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOu8SEURbZ0

But the king and grossest of these videos is: :nws::dong::nws:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tohl-nFCugw

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SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I'm not really sure how people respond to this either. It's another weird seafood thing.



Now this, is technically not alive by most measures, it's dead and the the legs are just responding to the stimulus of the soy sauce because it's an electrolyte. What's more complicated is places where they kill and prepare the squid in public, and right after they cut off the mantle and rip out all the organs including the brain, the tentacles are still active and they can kinda just stand up the squid as a little display.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntCgwhw24KQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JTk8vn78WY

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

AARD VARKMAN posted:

lol at that title because there's a whole subgenre of Indian street food cooking videos on Instagram that start with basically that title - "Hardest Working Girl" or "Hardest Working 18 year boy" etc

this also isn't pizza but an example and also interesting
https://i.imgur.com/VMY2nI9.mp4

:thunk: kinda need just a general street food thread or something. . .. ..


E: actually it has circular bread, red sauce and cheese, it's definitely A Pizza

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqs9D0L4P90

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Not streetfood because it's not on a street, but here's the Village Cooking Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@VillageCookingChannel/videos

They very enthusiastically cook large amounts of food. Apparently it's part of some charitable thing for a part of their community that is otherwise not looked out after, I don't really know the details. Mostly untranslated aside from the ingredients lists and "welcomes you".

Surprisingly hygenic, especially compared to the places where they throw a bunch of food on the floor, since they make a point to wash everything.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

You can just let it cool and then all of that butter would harden again and recrystalize so you can eat food that feels like it's encased in wax.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

That is the first time I've seen somebody take the vertical dimension of a takeout container as a suggestion for serving size.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Some street food vendors are master showmen, some are impressive and artful at their craft after working doing the same thing all day every day, and then some are just no hygiene and no real idea of what they're doing.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I feel like that's in the realm of "guy doesn't really know what he's doing".

Futanari Damacy posted:

Kind of a Welsh Rarebit situation I guess

Not at all really.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Welsh Rabbit is a two ingredient thing, and that pile only has half the ingredients.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Futanari Damacy posted:

By contrast it's a nice change of pace to see one serving of something that doesn't require six+ eggs in its preparation

The initial omelet is 2 eggs, but then he throws an additional omelet on top, and he squirts what's probably mayonnaise on it (a sauce made of egg). That could easily be like 5 eggs and then an egg's worth in butter.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011


At first I thought "oh wow, does that mean that the rollie is an actual common street food? Would it be actually good if the thing worked?" but then he turns the egg tube around and inserts it back in to cook again, and that is way more trouble than an egg tube would be worth for convenience purposes.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011


Oh wow it would take such skill to get an even distribution.

Oh wait he doesn't.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

DeadFatDuckFat posted:

When does the burst happen

When does the sandwich happen

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

It's so thick and squished so thin.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Futanari Damacy posted:

Is all that splashing really necessary :nallears:

street food means it's not your responsibility to clean the floor.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

So you put shrimp on skewers inside the egg wrap? How do you eat that?

And then the egg isn't yellow when in liquid form?

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I've never really understood what "savory" was supposed to be. Sweet is a taste. Salty is a taste. Sour is a taste. There's a lot of more complex and specific tastes out there that are hard to really nail down in simple terms, but it can't get reduced to specific universal terms because it's not all one two dimensional spectrum that can be objectively measured like color, it's a complex and subjective system of recognizing chemicals that is probably even more than one sense as well.

The one time I get grumpy about there being sweetness that I don't want is sweet sandwich bread, which distracts from the filling.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I don't think that's the way you should serve tuna.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

LifeSunDeath posted:

Sauce it up boys!

I'll have that one burger up top that never gets any sauce because it turns out just waving your wrist around at random doesn't actually work to distribute it.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

I was hoping that it'd be like a weird kind of funnel cake, but nah it's just a weird way of making noodles.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Decrepus posted:

What is a stromboli

Thurmondboli did the longest filibuster in American history to stop the civil rights act.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

https://i.imgur.com/sMDA2do.mp4

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Just rearrange those ingredients into a couple egg salad sandwiches, and then you don't have to toast your bread cube three times and scrape off the burnt bits and you can add like some cheese slices.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

https://twitter.com/LockedStu/status/1742875498059882687

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

The past is a foreign country.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Kharnifex posted:

Incredible, would love to gross out people while eating those.

They kinda just gross me out because there's a lot of dough relative to filling and you've got that big dry tail noodle that'll be wriggling around in your mouth as you process the rest of the dumpling.

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Grand Fromage posted:

It's pretty different. A lot of Mexican food is the original native food + these pigs and rice whitey brought over are pretty tasty. Iberia got new ingredients but didn't import much in the way of techniques.

The Spaniards taught the locals to call all their flatbreads omelets.

I guess if they had taught and spread any techniques that'd be fairly hard to track, because a lot of cooking techniques in general in the modern day tend to not be able to go much further than 200 years back before changing considerably. I guess the introduction of metallurgy had to have some kind of big net effect.

steinrokkan posted:

The global spread of pizza has absolutely nothing to do with American chain restaurants. Lol, lmao

It might be a big part of the spread of pizza through Asia, since that was a lot more recent, but with most of pizza's spread it was just generally the spread of American culture (including northern Italy).

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011


This guy is like from one of those infomercials where they're loving up at very basic tasks and saying "there has to be a better way".

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

https://twitter.com/kuridongo/status/1781828176202666024

pointlessone posted:

Don't know what that bread is, but that flaky bun looks divine

It starts out so flat but puffs up so much.

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SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Grand Fromage posted:

It's fine. It's mostly for the show I don't think it's better than just regular octopus.

The one I hate is, I dunno if it's a specific dish, but you'll go to a seafood place and get a burner and huge pile of shellfish to steam, and during the steaming process they toss a live octopus onto the pile and it slowly dies and steams in front of you. Was taken to have that once and it was hosed up, no thank you to torturing an animal to death for dinner. Sannakji is dead even though it's still moving.

They do that with squid too. There's a whole routine I've seen where after they cut off the mantle, they stand up the rest of the squid to do a little dance while they cut the mantle up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntCgwhw24KQ
There may actually be some grey area as to what actually counts as "dead" for something like a cephalapod, they don't have as much blood to die quickly by bleeding out like with most mammals, and their brain has a lot of distribution so it's not gonna all be dead even . That's part of why the tentacles will keep moving after getting cut off.

Of course there's also the separate effect of electrolytes triggering neurons in dead tissue. You can get a similar effect with frog legs.

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