What is the most magical food you've ever eaten?

[Anonymous]

Honey crisp apples

But I am anticipating one of those fresh green coconuts where they slice the top off and you drink the water out of it when I go to Hawaii. I love coconut anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Fettucine Alfredo. Pretty much anywhere, even my college dining hall. I wish someone would try to drown me in it so I could eat my way to safety.

Hahahaha!

Oh gosh. I remember the first time I had fettuccine alfredo. I was in high school on a school band trip to Epcot Center. I was in "Italy" with my friends and we went to this Italian restaurant for dinner. I didn't have much experience with Italian food outside spaghetti with jarred tomato sauce. The waiter suggested I get fettuccine alfredo and it was like-- mind blown. I didn't know food could taste that good. Who knows, it was probably a step above Bertolli or something, but to me it was incredible.

I had an Italian boyfriend who informed me that fettuccine Alfredo is an American creation (or at least not served in Italy), but he freaking LOVED the stuff when he'd visit me. (He also loved Ledo's pizza.)

[Anonymous]

Chilli crab in Singapore, and again (hotter) in Bangkok at Nahm. The KitKat dessert at Central. The vanilla bean soufflé at Olives. Kaya toast at Killiney Kopitiam in Singapore. The house ramen at Ippudo in Kyoto. Fresh-made raspberry chocolate chip ice cream at a dairy farm in my hometown. Raspberries from my parents' backyard patch.

[Anonymous]

Coco puffs from Liliha Bakery in Honolulu. Oh!

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Anonymous wrote:A ripe persimmon when I was in Jordan. I am afraid to try one here because I'm guessing it will never compare.

This reminds me, when I was a teenager, I visited China and one morning we had a few hours free and went walking to the local open air market. One of the vendors had fresh lychees. I had only had the ones that come in canned syrup and so didn't know what to expect. Bought them, and peeled the skin and there was the lychee fruit inside the shell. It was so juicy, it was almost floating inside the shell in its own juice. I expect something like the canned syrup, but it was nothing like that, and it was amazingly heavenly. It was like the difference between a fresh good farmer's market peach at the peak of ripeness vs Dole canned peaches.

Amazing...and it's virtually impossible to get fresh lychees here in the US. The peak season is something like 3 weeks.

I was just thinking fresh lychees, but picked right off the tree! I've since moved out of china and lychees will never taste that sweet ever again.

[Anonymous]

Mangosteen!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Peruvian Chicken
"Drop em in the sauce"

I was introduced to Peruvian Chicken when I moved to DC and since moved away and GOD I MISS IT SO MUCH.

ME TOO!!!! and fried yucca. *sniff*

[Anonymous]

My very first po boy in New Orleans. DH was making fun of me for ordering a "sandwich". I gobbled the entire thing, then he pouted that I didn't save him a second bite. Then you shouldn't make fun, dear.

[Anonymous]

A really, really good vanilla bean creme brûlée. The crisp, crunchy top, shattering to reveal the creamy, silky goodness inside. Mmm.

A close second is a good chocolate mousse.

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Anonymous wrote:The bacon at Peter Luger.

+1000 - That stuff ROCKS!! I don't need the steak when I have their bacon.

[Anonymous]

Beans

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Anonymous wrote:The first time I had sushi was pretty amazing.

I find this hard to believe. I don't think most people like sushi if they never heard of it. Perhaps they have been primed for it, with all the hype... it is still trendy.

This is not the reaction that my aunt saw when she served large platter of sushi at a wedding in the 70's. People were grossed out by eating raw fish wrapped over vinegar rice. I think this reaction would be the norm, like eating raw beef tartar.

You cannot call the wedding platter and buffet stuff sushi. I love sushi but will never go to a buffet for it. Start at a good sushi place.

[Anonymous]

It's a toss-up between cultured butter and puff pastry, both of which I have made from scratch. In each case, it wasn't my first time eating the item but being able to create them in my home kitchen made it magical.

[Anonymous]

Crème brûlée - the first time.

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Anonymous wrote:Beans

Because it produced magical aromatic gasses?