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When living in Taiwan, I really enjoy eating some foods like look black. For example, the century eggs, the iron eggs, the pig blood cakes, the pork livers and the bobble milk tea. Oh my god, they are so mouth-watering. I'm drooling just thinking about these dishes now. But what a pity, in Japan, I can't find any of them to reduce my hunger. Though in my opinion, they are very delicious. Western people seems to be afraid of the foods that look black. I had shared some iron eggs to the exchange students that are from many the countries. Some of them pinching their noses when eating it, few of them said it's chewy and unexpectedly tasted good. But Most of them rather to die than give it a try. How interesting!
I still found some black food in Japan, and have tasted them. One is called volcanic ash soft ice cream. I saw this was selling in the shop that near Mount Aso, which is an active volcano. I know it can't be made of real volcanic ash, so I was so excited trying to find out how it tastes like. I bought one without hesitate. And, it was made of black sesame. LOL. Very delicious.
And the other one is calamari ink soft ice cream. I saw it when I went to a coastline where is famous of calamari. The shop sells everything that be made of calamari ink. Such as cream puff, curry rice, sausage and the most normal one, pasta. If you ask me how it tasted like, I don't know how to answer you. Kind of sweet, kind of salty... It's hard to explain the flavour but not that awful. LOL. Though my friend who's from Australia almost spit the foods in her stomach out while watching me eating the calamari ink soft ice cream. Ha ha!
I still found some black food in Japan, and have tasted them. One is called volcanic ash soft ice cream. I saw this was selling in the shop that near Mount Aso, which is an active volcano. I know it can't be made of real volcanic ash, so I was so excited trying to find out how it tastes like. I bought one without hesitate. And, it was made of black sesame. LOL. Very delicious.
And the other one is calamari ink soft ice cream. I saw it when I went to a coastline where is famous of calamari. The shop sells everything that be made of calamari ink. Such as cream puff, curry rice, sausage and the most normal one, pasta. If you ask me how it tasted like, I don't know how to answer you. Kind of sweet, kind of salty... It's hard to explain the flavour but not that awful. LOL. Though my friend who's from Australia almost spit the foods in her stomach out while watching me eating the calamari ink soft ice cream. Ha ha!
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http://www.city.itoigawa.lg.jp/dd.aspx?menuid=4880
わぁ!これはじめて知りました!
今度機会があれば、食べて見ますわ^^
When living in Taiwan, I really enjoy eating some foods that look black.
For example, the century eggs, the iron eggs, the pig blood cakes, the pork livers and the bobble milk tea.
Western people seem to be afraid of the foods that look black.
I had shared some iron eggs with the exchange students that are from many the countries.
Some of them pinched their noses when eating it, and a few of them said it's chewy and unexpectedly tasted good.
But Most of them would rather to die than give it a try.
I still found some black foods in Japan, and have tasted them.
"food" = general, "foods" = different kinds of food
I saw this was selling in the shop that near Mount Aso, which is an active volcano.
I know it can't be made of real volcanic ash, so I was so excited trying to find out what it tastes like.
I bought one without hesitation.
I saw it when I went to a coastline which is famous for calamari.
The shop sells everything that can be made of calamari ink.
If you ask me what it tasted like, I don't know how to answer you.
"what it tasted like" or "how it tasted" are both fine
Looks like I tend to use the word "the" very often... ><
Thanks for sharing the black food you like.
Wow, blackberries! It tasted kinda sour, isn't it?
But I like sour fruits. lol
For example, the century eggs, the iron eggs, the pig blood cakes, the pork livers and the bubble milk tea.
We will sometimes call 皮蛋 "hundred-year (old) egg" as well.
豬血糕 is usually called "pig's blood cake" (use an "s" after pig).
珍珠奶茶 is USUALLY called "Boba Milk Tea" (波霸奶茶). The term comes from Hong Kong, who say "Bubble Milk Tea." Some people will also say "Pearl Milk Tea."
Finally, it should be "pork liver." No s.
I'm drooling just thinking about it now.
Rule of thumb, English speakers like to make sentences as short as possible. So if we can, we'll condense long sentences with a pronoun, such as it!
會讓妳英文流利更多。
But what a pity, in Japan, I can't find any of them to reduce my hunger.
I always tell my Taiwanese friends this.
English speakers do NOT use "what a pity“ as often as 華人說”可惜!”
Most 年輕人 will say "It's too bad..."
Older people may say "It's a shame..."
If you want to use "...pity," I suggest saying "It's a pity (that)...". It sounds sooo sooo SO much more 流利。
I have shared some iron eggs with the exchange students that are from many (different) countries.
It's hard to explain the flavour but not that bad.
"Awful" and "bad' are both OK here...but "bad" sounds better. (We often say "it's not that bad" or 著類似。 跟華人說的‘不錯’一樣的感覺。
Though my friend who's from Australia almost spit the foods in her stomach out while watching me eating the calamari ink soft ice cream.
I know in 中文 you would say "嘔吐" here, but in English, we can't say this!
The most 標準 translation of 嘔吐/吐 is "throw-up." (noun and verb)
So here we can say:
"My Australian friend almost threw-uip while watching me eat calamari ink soft ice cream"
Thanks for the corrections.
I learned a lot from your corrections :D