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admittedly, of all my "hobbies" I think cooking food has been my most enjoyable venture. my first meal I cooked for my wife (then wife) was a comical series of events that we still joke about. I had a veggie with califlower and ketchup, I swear to this day I saw on NPR with that Pepin chef dude. hahah..

similar to putting together a couple of old Porsche 911's, I didnt need the best tools. no snap-on, etc. same goes to cooking. I walked thru some of the planets best knifes shops and thought, "no thanks". no copper pots.

I am waking up from jet-lag now. and I am already cooking. I eaten some interesting things, that I need to try to reverse engineer. #1 was a cake walk. I was walking in Taipei. lagging behind the fam, looking at foods. I saw a mom and kid sucking down a thick brown drink. the consistency of pancake batter. "what's that?"..the mom looked at me and said, "Mi-Jaang". I look at the owner (she was easily 90 years old) and said, "mi-jaang!". she then said something in tawainese that lost me. deeeeerrrrrrrrrr... my MIL had swung back around and saved me. "hot or cold?" I looked at the mom and kid and said, "hot please". the old lady looked at me and said, "okay, hot". (WTF?)

it was so good. peanuty, hot, mildly sweet, rice drink!!! very similar to a Korean dish served to sick people...I thought to myself, "oh, I got this!"

I ended up getting that Mi-jaang any chance I got. it is apparently the Taiwanese breakfast drink of choice, (well tied with soy milk)

here it is. I made mine with pure peanut butter because I am too lazy to toast raw peanuts for now. (my MIL got the old ladies process and explained it to me)

and here is the old lady's.