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Need some joy? Kick a poo!!

by Ashlee on March 29, 2010

in Food, Malaysia, funky food, funnies

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Need some fun in your day?  Need some joy?  Need to develop a new hobby without the expense of purchasing a football?  Or maybe you just need a good beverage inspired by the world’s most biodegradable sporting equipment.

KICK A POO JOY JUICE IS FOR YOU!!!

Spotted today in a coffee shop here in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia… a huge banner for Kickapoo Joy Juice.  What a name.

I also have no idea what they are doing on that illustration on the can.  Barbequeing themselves?  The levitating elephant might be pooping and the other guy kicking?  I dunno.

Immature I know, but I’m the same girl that laughed for days after discovering Poo brand tofu in Jakarta.

Their Website doesn’t seem to be working though, so I can’t find out more.  How sad.

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Mmmmm the food of love!

by Ashlee on February 13, 2009

in Indonesia, funky food, funnies, jakarta

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Not a great pic.  But in the deli at Carrefour, I spotted these heart shaped, pink doughed, take it home and bake it pizzas, obviously whipped up in celebration of that most icky of Hallmark holidays, Valentine's Day.

How wrong is that?

Is also looks pretty wrong besides the dough… it's got ground beef and very weird looking chunks of cheese on it.

I wanted to buy one to see what colour the dough would be after cooking the pizza, but I don't have an oven.  So no taste test unfortunately.

Maybe this is what we should be selling at Sweethearts Pizza, dad?  I think this almost outdoes the pizza doughnut I road tested a while back.

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Funky food: the spew doughnut

by Ashlee on December 18, 2008

in Indonesia, funky food

Today I decided to go to this doughnut chain store called J-Co, which is super-dooper popular here in Jakarta.  People crowd and queue up to get some of its sugary goodness.

The doughnuts are all the colours of the artificial colouring rainbow, but I had never actually ventured close enough to see what the flavours were.

Until today.

The doughnut that first caught my eye was the one THAT LOOKED LIKE SOMEONE HAD REGURGITATED A PIZZA ON IT.

"Apa ini?"

"Pizza doughnut"

"Mau ini."

I had to have one.

How could you say no to this?

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(I'm obviously talking about the one in the middle with the chunks on it… the other two are Oreo and choc-mint.  Boring flavours.)

It was sitting next to the cheese doughnut, and another one that looked like diarrhea doughnut.  I'll try them some other time.

So, the taste test.

I thought the doughnut itself might be savoury, but no, the usual super sweet doughnut.  The glaze tasted weird… kinda like sweet but spicy tomato with sausage flavour… I think that sauce on the top is sambal (chili).  The chunks of sausage were what really pushed it in to "WTF???? WHY???" territory.  Yes people, that's meat on a doughnut.

It didn't taste unpleasant.  Just sweet, and really bloody weird!

There's quite an obsession in Asia with sweet/savoury combinations… lots of sweet cheese rolls, corn or peanut butter in sweet foods… some of it is fine, but some of it my meek Western tastebuds just can't understand.

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