Kuih and Kvas

[squirmelia]

Wednesday was a day of unexpected food. I consumed kuih and квас.

The food at the Malaysian Food Festival at the university smelt delicious as I walked in and gazed at the bright colours of sweets and read the strange sounding names of various dishes. I tried some round green chewy kuih sweets covered in coconut. They looked a bit like the pictures of onde-onde but were flatter.

In the evening, my Russian teacher offered cups of Kvas(квас) to the class. It is a non-alcoholic drink often made with fermented rye bread and unsurprisingly, tasted quite like beer. Searching for details of the drink, I came across a London website that claimed that two thirds of Russian men die drunk. Disturbing.

Comments

[fluffymark]

Kvas (as I learnt to spell it) is nice, isn't it? Just don't try and make soup out of it (worst meal of my life). Tastes like Irn Bru, actually, which is why Irn Bru does so well over in Russia. All russian men I know like their drink. I went out with a Russian (doseybat) for 3 years and her dad was responsible for getting me wasted on just about every occasion I met him. Erk.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I wasn't that keen on it, since it tasted a bit too much like beer for me really, so I definitely won't be making soup out of it. I think my teacher mentioned something about soup also!

[fluffymark]

I think Kvas soup is a old traditional Russian thing. Soup is not supposed to be fizzy. Ugh.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

You were in the SU the day of the Mayasian food festival? Dr. Nick said that he'd arranged to meet you for lunch that day, but couldn't find you (I think it was that day).

God Is Now Here

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Not on topic but - Hey Nostradamus is great! My Couplandophilia is restored!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Oops. I experienced memory loss.

Re: God Is Now Here

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

It is not too bad indeed.

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

Wow you ate food that has to be spelt with a different alphabet!

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I am supposed to write an entire menu in Russian for homework!

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

Cool. i make a rather good borscht.

[kaleidazcope.livejournal.com]

My friend The Ukranian (this is his name: like Monkey is called Monkey) has a bottle of 'special' vodka, that he keeps in a drawer under his desk. We have a swig most evenings and two at other times.

The Ukranian isn't Russian.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Now I recall tales of the, ah, interestingly malfunctioning drinks vending machine that would produce things like "cold fizzy vegetable soup with milk and extra sugar".