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Mankind is Noodlekind
Anyone visiting Mississauga (Southern Ontario) who is interested in a real snack treat, should be sure to visit "Happy Cake House", a small Asian bakery that's part of an equally small Asian Mall. Besides having the coolest name on the planet, Happy Cake House offers an assortment of interesting sweet buns filled with an incredible variety of tasty ingredients, such as hotdogs and BBQ pork, which are my two personal favourites. They also have a pretty narfy selection of regular cakes and Swiss style cake rolls!
Right beside HCH is one of my favorite Markets, which besides carrying my favorite brand of Ramen*, also has some very interesting soft drinks. I'm crazy enough to drink the really unusual drinks, like the folks at Crazy Asian Drinks, so I usually stick to the more regular looking drinks, such as Sarsi, which is best described as a tasty cross between Pepsi and Root Beer. Sarsi is actually the perfect compliment for tasty bun wrapped hotdogs from Happy Cake House, so if you're ever in the region, it's definitely a different sort of snack to check out. From time to time the market in question as has a supply of imported Coke, Sprite and Pepsi from the Caribbean, which means that it's made with real cane sugar, as opposed to the icky high fructose corn syrup that we're forced to imbibe in North America. Plus, these imported sodas still come in the old glass bottles, which combined with real sugar improves the taste by about a thousand percent! Be sure to check the labels on your bottles, there ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby!
*I was recently in this market, hunting for unusual and humorously named goodies, like "Cream Colon" and "Kaka" (which is apparently chocolate "jam" and biscuits) when I happily discovered that this particular market sells my favorite brand of Ramen noodle in bulk. Made by Nissan Foods, I was practically raised on what I like to call "Red Kid Noodles" (from the picture on the package), so I was saddened to read recently that the rather interesting and philosophically minded inventor of Ramen noodles had passed away at the age of 96.
Posted by Dylon on September 3, 2008 10:35 PM |
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HAHAHA! Oh, you totally brought back old memories for me! Cream Colon and Kaka...Ooooh, boy! Asian snack food and drinks have the best names, don't they? When I taught in Japan, I spent HOURS doing groceries because I was just so intrigued by all of the neat things you could find at the supermarket! LOL!
*sigh* Now you've got me craving ramen!!!
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