Category — Snacks

Here’s an interesting food technology with potential for creating food with supplements to get your RDA’s. I also see potential for some concealed hi-tech food pranks! Read on..

These strawberries are actually composites of chocolate and berries created by an infusion technology, adapted for produce by a company called FCOM (Fresh Functional Food Composite).

They create them first by freeze-drying the fruit, removing water components, and then sinking chocolate in between its fibers. In the cross section above, the inner part of the strawberry is actually laced with white chocolate.

It’s a technique commonly used in industrial manufacturing for fusing metals. The strawberries are just for fun, but the company’s hoping to apply the same strategies to create vitamin-infused fruits and mineral-infused rice for youngsters and elderlies reluctant to get their nutrition otherwise.

Read more on JapanTimes

Via TokyoMango

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The Cast Sugar blog posts a neat little idea for dessert sushi made out of swedish fish, fruit roll-ups and rice krispie treats!

How to Make Dessert Sushi

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“Literally meaning pupa or chrysalis, beondegi are popular Korean street snacks, often dished out by the cupful to eager passers-by.

“The stewed and seasoned silkworm treats come highly recommended as bar bites. Next time you crave a quick mouthful on the go, grab a can of these crunchy chrysalises.”

Someone tell me these aren’t real!!

On Wired.com

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Think twice before you assume that the fortune you’re about to find in your cookie is a vague, sugar-coated cliché.

Wonton Food, who produce about 4.5 million cookies a day have “enriched” their catalog of fortunes with some slightly more downbeat advice.

“Today is a disastrous day. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” reads one fortune whilst another advises “It’s over your head now. Time to get some professional help”.

One blogger, who got the “professional help” fortune, wrote: “I shot the audacious baked item a dirty look and proceeded to eat it. And I hope it hurt.”

Bernard Chow, marketing coordinator at Wonton Food, says he had not set out to insult anybody when he asked his team of freelance writers to come up with some new messages.

“We wanted our fortune cookies to be a little bit more value-added,” Mr. Chow said. “We wanted to get some different perspective, to write something that is more contemporary.”

WOW - where can I get some!?

More on The New York Times

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I know its now past the Mid-Autumn festival, but I couldn’t pass up these moon cakes - they look gorgeous! They were for sale too, so I could suggest bookmarking the site and returning next year.

More moon cakes below…

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For a different take on ramen, how about ramen with beef served on mini pumpkins? Appropriate for Halloween next month, Nika shows us how..

Whats in Your Ramen

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Check out this new snack found on the streets of Seoul, South Korea! It’s a Tornado Potato which is basically a potato that’s been sliced into a long spiral and deep fried.

What I like about East-Asian countries are that there always seems to be more interesting things to buy and eat as you walk around, and these things are no exception. Guaranteed to turn heads (well, foreign heads anyway).

Via Neatorama

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Swee posts a good looking alternative to the traditional-style moon cakes on her blog Foodaholic, which certainly look tastier than the previously post Nokia Moon Cakes!

She makes these with a combination of custard and green tea lotus paste. Check out her blog to find out how to make these.

How to Make a Custard Green Tea Snowskin Mooncake

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