Comments on: How do you screw up mango AND plum? Go to China http://engineerinshenzhen.com/how-do-you-screw-up-mango-and-plum-go-to-china/ Chronicling a trip to China to manufacture a product Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:43:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Leigh Williams http://engineerinshenzhen.com/how-do-you-screw-up-mango-and-plum-go-to-china/#comment-351 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:29:30 +0000 http://engineerinshenzhen.com/?p=163#comment-351 Warning:
I recently bought a dried banana snack thing at a Vietnamese market in Pasco. I don’t know that it’s a Vietnamese thing, though, so I thought I would pass on my warning. I figured, as I would expect you to also, that dried bananas are pretty safe, and I really like them.

This thing was the size and approximate appearance of a small tortilla, but composed of banana slices held together with something that created a flexible patty, honey? some kind of vegetable gum? I love those sesame/honey patties, so I put out $2.79 so I could take this thing home. Uh oh. One bite was enough. It tasted like shoe polish! Some kind of aromatic hydrocarbon that you know can’t be food! Into the compost!

]]> By: Bob Baddeley http://engineerinshenzhen.com/how-do-you-screw-up-mango-and-plum-go-to-china/#comment-349 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:40:11 +0000 http://engineerinshenzhen.com/?p=163#comment-349 Yeah, I could do that. Hong Kong is a lot more expensive, though. I don’t really want to spend American prices for American food while I’m in Asia, though. That said, I was there last weekend and had the most amazing mint avocado smoothie. Totally worth the $4.50USD for a 12oz cup. Plus, I like the adventure (and perhaps infantile nature) of sticking foreign things into my mouth.

]]> By: Ken http://engineerinshenzhen.com/how-do-you-screw-up-mango-and-plum-go-to-china/#comment-348 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:33:00 +0000 http://engineerinshenzhen.com/?p=163#comment-348 I wonder if you can stock up on food in Hong Kong and bring it back with you. I had much better luck in Hong Kong with snack foods. Oh, well… at least it is entertaining… for some.

]]> By: Paul http://engineerinshenzhen.com/how-do-you-screw-up-mango-and-plum-go-to-china/#comment-345 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:10:24 +0000 http://engineerinshenzhen.com/?p=163#comment-345 Keep these coming. It brings back many memories of living in Korea a few decades ago :-)

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