Last weekend, we took a trip to H-Mart to stock up on delicious tasty items. I wound up getting a lot of stuff, including K-rab (our code name for delicious imitation crab smeat (code for imitation meat). I don't care that it's imitation. I'm broke and it tastes fine. Whatever. Besides, after looking at the little blue crabs in a big tub with no water wilting away, it kind of kills your appetite for real crab. That and the little snot bubble like things that they had coming out of their eye sockets. I'll stick with the k-rab. I also got rice paper wrappers for fresh spring rolls and nori sheets for making some California rolls with Luz. Eventually, I'll make it somewhere to buy decent fish for sushi making. I also invested in a bottle of wasabi mayonnaise, which has a little star shaped hole on top for decorative mayo slathering:

I also wound up picking up a bottle of Golden Boy Fish Sauce for a recipe I had found for tofu and vegetables. Two things about this fish sauce. A) The bottle is freaking hilarious. It looks like one of those religious candles that you can find at the grocery store that have the weird little prayers on them and if they're not unscented, generally smell horrible (and he's giving the freaking thumbs up. What the hell seriously?!):

B) Trying to open this bottle was ridiculous. Luz and I were both looking at it like "What the hell am I supposed to do with this?" and we couldn't figure it out. So I did what I do any time that there is a pressing matter that needs to be urgently resolved: I asked the interwebz and all of it's wondrous knowledge. It was somwhat of a relief to know that I wasn't the only one having problems with it.

One of the other little jars of awesome I got was ths:

Tapioca pearls for bubble tea! (I also got a jar of cream of coconut today to make smoothies with to put the pearls in). One thing that I didn't notice until I was uploading the pictures to put on here was that one of the ingredients was lye, and we were kind of like "What the hell!?" Once again I had to consult the magic of the internet and was quite relieved when wikipedia comforted me with the fact that lye is quite often used in curing foods. All is well. 

Last night, I made tofu with sugar snap peas and mushrooms. It was decent, but the recipe I had called for cornstarch to thicken the sauce. The cornstarch made it kind of gross. Slimy in a disgusting sort of way. Honestly, the only thing that can fix that is Sriracha. A lot of it.

Tonight was much better. After braving a ridiculous amount of snow to buy make-up and new shoes (It was worth it) Luz and I bought a ton of fruit and vegetables (and beer) and came home to make California rolls. I got to use the mandoline I got yesterday, which was amazing and much better than cutting veggies by hand, and the end result was pretty tasty:

And with that, I'm going to return to my booze and watching of Superbad. That is all.