Favorite Food?

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There's very few things I can honestly say I hate when it comes to food. Snails is one thing, it's not so much the taste as it is the texture, it just won't go down. I've tried snails prepared different ways and I just can't do it.

Chicken feet is one thing i just can't bring myself to try, I've seen them so many times at dim sum, but I just can't go there, not a clue if they're actually good or not, my dad's had them in China and said it was very strange.

I love calamari as well. I've used it in soup before, I've made a spicy chili soup with lemongrass and tossed in some shrimps, scallops and calamari rings, it was great, the calamari's texture in soup was very interesting, it turned out really tender.

It's weird, there's only a couple of things that I won't eat and it's usually based on texture rather than taste. I'm picky with that, I don't know why. Just like I hate touching certain types of velvets and I hate touching suede, to me that's like nails on a chalkboard.

I love trying new dishes. I've been desperate to find an asian market around here, I miss Montreal's chinatown. I used to go shopping there all the time, in the summer it was one of the cheapest places to get fruits and vegetables.

One of the best things I ever had was wild boar sausage. Before we moved to the US, we lived just 3 blocks away from the Jean Talon Market in Montreal. I loved going there, in the summer we'd go there to pick up fruits and veggies and we'd have lunch there, just picking up things here and there. There was always tons of little food vendors that'd sell like different types of sausage, sandwiches, crepes etc.

I'll try anything at least once or twice. If I don't like it the first time, I'll generally try it again done a different way, to see if it was just the way it was cooked.

I just thought of one of my all time favorite dessert. Egg tarts, not sure what they're actually supposed to be called, we used to get them at dim sum, while they were still warm, those are so yummy.