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The Amazingly Manly Chinese Mashed Potato Burger

  • February 9, 2012 12:01 am

I’ve already made the irrefutable argument that fast food in Asia is a gazillion times more awesome than the fast food here in the U.S. Here’s further proof of this—behold, McDonald’s Mashed Potato Burger (available only in China):

It’s a double patty burger with the usual fixings plus bacon and mashed potatoes. This is part of McDonald’s “Manly Man” campaign; geared toward China’s “young urban meat lovers.” Just looking at the picture of the burger, I can already feel a chest hair lots of chest hairs sprouting on my body.

Between this, the Japanese Burger King’s Windows 7 Whopper (count ‘em—seven friggin’ patties):

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EDIBLE BYTES has had some spicy adventures.

  • February 4, 2012 12:32 pm

As a child, I was coddled, shielded from anything and everything that could bring me even the slightest measure of discomfort. That meant learning to ride a bike; roughhousing at school; and sports in general. There was even an embargo on spicy foods.

So really it must have been a delayed reaction to the latter that I started to love spicy food because honestly, I don’t think I actually fancy its ‘taste.’ What appeals to me more is the sense of achievement – however small – that comes with consuming something other people shudder at tasting.  Read more...

EDIBLE BYTES: The best boba in Los Angeles is at Cafe 70 Degrees in Culver City.

  • January 30, 2012 12:00 am

Sorry, I had to rely on hyperbole to drag you over here, but it worked, didn’t it? The fact of the matter is that even if it’s not the singularly best boba joint in Los Angeles, Culver City’s Cafe 70 Degrees still undoubtedly resides in the upper echelons of bobadom.

I discovered this place through Yelp a couple months back when I needed a place to hang out at before my Parkour classes.

My expectations were low going into it because, well, I’d been around the block when it comes to tapioca balls and there haven’t really been many places that stick out for their excellence.  Read more...

EDIBLE BYTES recommends Sushi Yoshi in Torrance, CA.

  • January 28, 2012 12:00 am

Growing up Filipino, I was raised to gorge. If food was in front of me, the expectation was that I’d vacuum it right up. I can distinctly remember moments in my childhood when I was compared to my cousins in terms of how well I polished off my plates.

In short, when I ate, I was primed to eat a lot. And I was also taught to be frugal when it came to food. There was no need or urge for fancy cuisine – just Lean Cuisine or Cup Noodles would be fine.

So when my parents turned me on to sushi, it wasn’t exactly a match made in heaven. Here was a kid ingrained with the virtues of eating lots for cheap discovering small, expensive pieces of fish and rice – it was the source of much conflict. This was how my quest began, one of finding great, fresh sushi without breaking the bank.

And upon visiting Sushi Yoshi in Torrance this month, that years-long quest has finally ended.  Read more...

Best Quality Clips

  • January 4, 2012 10:17 pm

Lynn Chen is an actress who is attached to her computer. She has two blogs – The Actor’s Diet and Thick Dumpling Skin, both about – you guessed it – food. When she’s not writing for those sites she’s starring in films like “Surrogate Valentine,” “Saving Face,” “White on Rice,” “The People I’ve Slept With,” and the upcoming “Yes We’re Open.” Actors from “Better Luck Tomorrow” that she hasn’t worked with yet – Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, and Roger Fan.

I don’t think it should come as a surprise to anyone who grew up with me that I wound up becoming an actress who blogs about food. I’ve always been fascinated with seeing people eat on screen, so much so that I would save certain scenes to watch AS I consumed a meal. Rewind, salivate, play. Rewind, chew, play. Rewind, digest, play. I hate the term food porn, but that’s exactly what it was. My mother used to edit out the sex in movies I’d tape off of cable – there was no need – I wasn’t obsessed with those parts. Here’s some of my favorite drool-worthy scenes.

Joy Luck Club – Best Quality Crab

Never mind that this is the pivotal moment of the movie, where June finally connects with her mother. Give me that crab! I’ll take the worst quality one, gladly.  Read more...

The Perfect Holiday Gift for Those who Love Cooking with Semen

  • November 28, 2011 4:51 pm

I’ve often extolled the virtues of semen when it comes to its health benefits, but even I have to admit this is a bit too much:

Yup, it’s the Natural Harvest Cookbook, which is allegedly filled with 61-pages of semen-based recipes like this:


And this:

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Add Your Own Caption: Food Porn Edition

  • November 25, 2011 1:54 pm

If you’re not already following us on Facebook, Twitter and our new Tumblr, you’re missing out on a lot of extras you won’t find here on our blog including updates on various Offender-related projects (like the most recent updates about our upcoming YOMYOMF Network on YouTube) and silly, fun things like “Add Your Own Caption.” This is where we post an image we find online or that our readers forward to us and ask you to write an appropriate caption to accompany that image. And we’ll feature the best captions here.

And the “best” caption for this week comes from reader Shannon Wong:

you SAID "Let's eat out"!

So check out our Facebook page for future editions of “Add Your Own Caption”: write your own caption and/or “like” the ones you think are worthy and we may share them here.  Read more...

Soup Goddess

  • November 4, 2011 2:27 pm

I want to marry this woman. Running a rickety little soup cart behind a small hotel along a steamy and smelly river in the middle of Saigon, the “Lunch Lady” is by far, one of the jewels of street food cuisine. I’ve been looking for her for a long time, especially after I watched the Vietnam episode of NO RESERVATIONS with Anthony Bourdain visited Nguyen Thi Thanh a.k.a. The Lunch Lady, who makes the best soup noodles in the city. Her specialties are the hu tieu, bun bo hue, and of course, pho. Only open from 11am – 2pm everyday, office workers, backpack tourists and traveling foodies congregate around the rickety cart, sit on little plastic seats and slurp up soup nirvana.  Read more...

Unfortunately Named Asian Foodstuffs

  • November 1, 2011 11:29 pm

Several of our readers recently sent us this picture of an aptly-named Asian food product:

“Cheap, fast and easy” indeed.

Anyway, I decided this was as good a time as any to post more images of food-related things from Asia where something seems to have gotten lost in translation.

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Why Japan is Awesome #334: All-You-Can-Eat Whoppers

  • October 20, 2011 12:02 am

Why is Burger King in Japan so much more awesome than the ones in the U.S.? Why can’t their American counterparts learn from Japan’s awesomeness and export that awesomeness here? Burger King Japan has already unleashed the spam burger and the Windows 7 Whopper which has seven patties between its buns. Let that last statement sink in: seven fucking patties in one hamburger!

Now Burger King Japan is bringing back its all-you-can-eat whopper promotion.

For two weeks (Nov. 1-15), you can walk into any Burger King in Japan, order a Whopper set meal (Whopper, fries and drink) and once you finish that first Whopper and fries, you can order and eat as many Whoppers as you want for the next 30 minutes.  Read more...

Say Hello to Pepsi Pink

  • October 10, 2011 12:02 am

Regular readers of this blog know that Japan produces a lot of “interesting” stuff that can’t be found anywhere else. Starting Nov. 8, you can add Pepsi Pink to that list.

But what exactly is Pepsi Pink? I get what Wild Cherry Pepsi is, but pink? What kind of flavor is pink? The only thing I can think of that’s pink and drink-able is Pepto Bismol and that doesn’t sound too appetizing.

Well, it turns out the pink is a combination of strawberry and milk. I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure if a combination of cola, strawberry and milk is something I’m excited to try. However, the Japanese do have a long history of producing “non-traditional” flavors of Pepsi including their Ice Cucumber Pepsi:  Read more...

China Hearts Obama’s Fried Chicken

  • October 6, 2011 12:01 am

What is it with China and their obsession with President Obama and fried chicken? Many of you probably already saw images of this sign that’s popped up in Beijing:

Of course, this has sparked outrage from those saying this is an offensive perpetuation of stereotypes. And this isn’t the first time China has shown us how much our President enjoys his fried chicken. I previously blogged about this KFC commercial out of Hong Kong:

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R.I.P. to the Man Behind Nacho Cheesy Perfection

  • September 27, 2011 4:20 pm

Yes, I was unironically eating my beloved Cool Ranch Doritos while catching up on the news when I heard that Doritos inventor Arch Clark West passed away last week at the age of 97.

Now, I love Doritos. And frankly, I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love them too. Except pedophiles and serial killers and Communists who hate puppies. I’ve been enjoying them for as long as I remember and will most likely be enjoying them until the day I die. But I had never heard of West before.

Considering how much something like Doritos has been a part of my life, I’ve never given any thought to where they came from or the fact that they were even invented by a real, breathing human being.  Read more...

What’s for Breakfast? Star Wars Pancakes

  • September 23, 2011 12:01 am

If you’re fan of both Star Wars and breakfast, this is for you: the AT-AT pancake. You can learn how to make your own here and check out this video that gives you a 3-D look at this creation:

The pancake comes via the website Jim’s Pancakes. Basically, the site is the brainchild of a dude named Jim who likes to make fun-shaped pancakes for his 3-year-old daughter. You can go to the site to see his other pancake creations (plus get his recipes) and see more of them after the jump:  Read more...

Happy International Banana Festival Day!

  • September 21, 2011 12:01 am

Yes, today is International Banana Festival Day—the special day each year when we pay tribute to that most phallic of foods (all apologies to the sausage). So to honor this occasion and give the banana its due, I present to you a collection of images from the web of all the awesome things bananas can do besides be eaten seductively by a sexy woman.

Happy International Banana Festival Day! I was going to try to eat a little healthy for the rest of the week, but I guess I have no choice but to stop by House of Pies for some of their banana cream pie. On this day, it’d be un-American not to.

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Why Japan is Awesome #64: Cup Noodles Museum Opens

  • September 16, 2011 12:01 am

Forty years ago in 1971, history was made. A new invention was unleashed on the world that would go on to do no less than change that very world itself. Yes, that was the year Cup Noodles (a.k.a. Cup O’ Noodles) was invented by Momofuku Ando, a Taiwanese-Japanese businessman. And life was good.

In honor of this milestone, the Nissin Cup Noodle Museum will open in Yokohama tomorrow (or today if you’re reading this in the U.S. where it’s already tomorrow in Japan). Exhibits will include the instant ramen history cube (which chronicles the history of the product) to a CGI video detailing the life of Ando to the Cup Noodle Park where children (and hopefully adults) can use playground equipment to become the ramen as it goes through the stages of its production process “from creation to shipping.”

Now, this news alone would be awesome, but there’s more!  Read more...

Why did I eat that?

  • August 26, 2011 4:02 am

I am in San Diego, CA, at Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop and I am faced with a dilemma.

But first let me set the scene.

With a theater marquee-like sign, the storefront alone already beckons.  I’m a sucker for all things retro – broad as that may be – and so, like a sailor to a siren’s call, I am drawn without a choice in the matter.

Once inside, the chocolate energy is palpable.  It’s chocolate, chocolate, CHOCOLATE EVERYWHERE.

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More Proof of the Existence of God: SPAM Lip Glaze

  • August 24, 2011 12:01 am

We heart our SPAM here at YOMYOMF (see here, here and here for examples). Others may pooh-pooh its deliciously mysterious meat, but as far I’m concerned, those people are racist elitists. So if you love SPAM too, here’s a new product you may be interested in:

Yup, SPAM Lip Glaze (which you can purchase here for only $2.99).

Now, you can experience that yummy SPAM taste on your lips 24-7. Here’s an official description:

Rubbing meat on your face is a good way to get noticed, but probably for all the wrong reasons. But what if you do it because you really want to taste meat, but not eat it? Well, grab yourself some SPAM Lip Glaze and you can rub the flavor of meat on your lips without getting weird stares from bacon hanging from your cheeks.  Read more...

Why I’m Not Losing Weight.

  • August 22, 2011 2:13 am

For a while now, I’ve been trying to get into better shape.  In the interest of clarity, this is my goal:

Of course, looking at a scale to chart your progress is probably a pretty effective way of gauging the efficacy of your methods.

However, no number can compete with the reflective truth of a mirror.  Even if the number is dropping, if the person staring back at me still looks like he did a couple months ago, it’s rather disheartening.

So after I accepted the fact that the man in the mirror had been the same man for a while now, I began contemplating the exact reasons why this was the case and now I present them to you here for your benefit.

These are not scientific in any way, so please – put your total and absolute trust in my words.

Now without further ado:

1) TAKING THE WHOLE CONTAINER/BAG/TUB

It takes a lot of discipline to stare down a whole lot of something you love – whether it’s chips, ice cream, or penii – while still resisting.

You’re better off sticking to the ol’ adage of “Out of sight, out of mind.”  Read more...

Even Addicts Have Their Limits

  • August 15, 2011 2:01 am

I don’t drink, do drugs, or extreme sports.  I do pork, fried dough, and sugar.  But sometimes, too much of a good thing can be just that…too much.  Here are the few times when I’ve crossed the threshold and moved from indulgent bliss to remorse…

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