法式蛋卷 Chocolate Covered Meat Floss Sushi
Pinyin: fǎ shì dàn juàn
This dish was a calculated risk and I gotta say we came out on the losing side. My interest was piqued and then the waitress told me that the brown sauce was chocolate I couldn’t resist. I wanted to know how scrambled egg, meat flosh, cucumber, and chocolate combined to make a sushi like appetizer. The answer unsurprisingly was not very well at all. Meat floss in any dish is always a bit awkward, it’s a bit sweet, but also a bit savory, it’s meat but doesn’t feel like meat, very strange stuff indeed. It wasn’t helped at all by the chocolate.
No worries though for the average diner, I’m guessing that only this one tucked away restaurant in Jing’An District in Shanghai serves this dish. The real moral of this story is that you should try new and interesting things, including food, even when they might not seem all that great. There’s always a chance you’ll be pleasantly surprised. This wasn’t one of them, but maybe I’ll have better luck next time.
Dave
6/10/2009
Addresses man- addresses!
We Love Asian Men
10/30/2009
I love pork floss, although I’m not sure about the chocolate sauce. My grandmother makes peanut butter and pork floss when my dad was a kid…she still does. We have a local type of peanut butter than is sweeter and more runny than the imported brands, it’s also sticky so the pork floss sticks to the bread better…so its not the same when you start using Peter Pan or Skippy Peanut Butter.
jamiedavinci
11/18/2009
’twas wrong to stumble upon ur site, first thing in the morning. now the pictures will haunt me throughout my day, even while i devour my pathetic servings of stir-fried veggies and tofu. this is a bad time to be on a diet.
DANG.
LOL