Poland in photo riddles - part 3

@Alien, yes, it's exactly that - prawn chips (prażynki krewetkowe)! :D But they're not "classic" prawn chips, they're additionally flavoured. Can you guess the flavour?

Over here they're called prawn crackers.


I know you can get shiitake mushroom ones. Or maybe sweet chilli?

I think that's actually the correct term in English, judging by my Google search. 🤔


Nope. It's an Asian flavour though :)

Some type of spicy flavour?

Turmeric?

Wasabi

gochujang ?

Curry

Prawn crackers are something that when they're warm, I could eat a thousand in one go.. Very very nice things. Did you know that it's possible to make a sort of pie with them?

Are they flavoured with ginger or shoyu?

There's also chili flavour.

The small cake is mochi - seems to be in vogue at the moment, you can get in Kuchnia Swiata but also in a lot of the new "everything and nothing" stores like Turtle and Halfprice

Other one looks like an Arab or Liban sweet, nuts with a molasses paste. Plenty of place selling that now in big Polish towns

I'll answer collectively - it's not turmeric, gochujang, curry or chili flavour.


Hmm, I wouldn't say so. 🤔


Nope, but this "flavour" comes from exactly the same country as wasabi does!


Soy sauce is one of the ingredients of this flavour (ginger could be an ingredient too, but optional apparently).


I don't think they need to be warm to be addictive ;) I do like them, but those flavoured ones are even better :d 🍤

As for that pie - I didn't know, but I wouldn't mind trying it.


Yes!!! :D

I find the texture of mochi interesting - it's very soft and velvety, but rubbery at the same time. I haven't eaten anything like that before :)

So, Alien and cms_neuf have guessed most of the riddle. Congrats! :))) 👏

To sum up - what's left to guess is the flavour of the prawn crackers (a Japanese flavour) and the sweet snack that cms_neuf is writing about here:


You're on track here :) In English this snack is named after one of its ingredients (one of two words) - a plant that originated in Africa, but also spread to Asia and the name of this plant comes from Arabic language. If I understand correctly this particular snack is Asian though. 🤔

Is it sweet potato yokan?

The Japanese like sweet potato as confectionary and I think that plant originated in Africa. They also have sweets with sugarcane in. Dates too.

There's a date yokan. Is it that?

It does look like a type of yokan.

Yokan or yubeshi. My guess is yokan or sliced yubeshi.

Probably contain8ng nuts, walnut or pistachio.

Shrimp

Nope, it isn't any type of yokan.

Ah, so this is what it's called! :D Some years ago my mother's Japanese coworker brought yokan from Japan as a gift for us and I knew what it was made of, but I didn't know it's name. It was awful, btw ;D


It's not yubeshi either, but this riddle is broadening my culinary horizons :)

To be honest, I don't even know if this particular snack is being eaten in Japan. I just know that it's Asian.

As for nuts - yes, the ones I have contain peanuts.


As I wrote earlier the prawn crackers in the photo are additionally flavoured - that flavour is what I'm asking about.

Maybe I should narrow it down more - the name of this flavour is a Japanese cooking technique :)

It looks like something very traditional that they eat in North Africa, usually in the evening in Ramadan. That has honey, dates, palm syrup and nuts in. I can't remember the name though.


Teriyaki? That sounds nice.

I was worried that it could be particular flavour that I hate so much I can't bear to mention the word in English. Po Polsku, it's called cz*sn*k. Th8 king about it, the Polish name is as bad or worse. A flavour that should never walk the earth.

This ingredient is used in dishes in the Middle East and in one of the drinks popular during Ramadan.


Yes!!! :)))🎉🎊🎇


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I don't mind garlic as long as there's not too much of it :) I don't like the smell though.

Actually, it's the main ingredient - it's what this drink is made of.

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Garlic is as good as 10 mothers!

He who hates garlic.... hates life itself!

This one was not raised in Poland. Garlic is the basis of the most important Polish dishes such as żurek, bigos, ogórki kiszone e.t.c.

Vimto (a fruit drink from Manchester but mostly sold now in Arab countries) in the gulf though it obviously isn't that. Pepsi across the Muslim world (not that either) a drink containing almonds and a crazy amount of sugar in North Africa (very nice and tastes a bit like liquid marzipan, mostly a breakfast thing), in some places baobab juice (really nice and you can buy it in powdered form though not within the EU due to bureaucracy), sometimes a hibiscus cordial (both of those are all year round in Sudan) and in a few places they mix Seven Up and milk which is nicer than it sounds.

Is it almonds?


Life is fine and for rejoicing in (though that depends on what the dermatologist says about a sinister sun spot that's growing suddenly - fingers crossed, I'll know more tomorrow) however g@rl1c is for very small quantities only. OK in southern Italian cooking. In minute quantities. It totally ruins lamb.

Poisonous to cats as well. Mine likes licking Tabasco (cats don't feel the heat from chilli) however I caught him slurping up some spilt sriracha and was a bit worried.

Tamarind, rose water?

Good luck but don't worry.

I had a similar thing investigated last summer, after spending a lot of time living in Spanish speaking countries I was worried but all good no problem

Thanks. The internet being full of Aussie private clinic websites about it with loads of photos doesn't help. Plus right now I'm in a place where everyone's black so they don't need many dermatologists due to having better skin generally and also more resistant to the sun. It could just be be due to falling asleep with glasses on and the thingy doesn't have ragged edges which is a plus.

What will be will be.


That's a good guess.

Blasphemy! lol We don't use czosnek in bigos o_O What part of Poland are you from, if you don't mind saying? 🤔


As we say in Poland: "Nie martw się na zapas." It's easy to say though.


The one in the photo is with white peach filling, btw.


Yes, it's tamarind!!! :D 🥳🎉

Those snacks are called tamarind rolls. Although the ones I got contain only 4% of tamarind, so I feel a bit cheated :P The rest of ingredients are peanuts, pineapple, rice paper, ginger and chili.

Thank you everyone for participating and great contributions :)

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Thank God. Some bigos has blobs of raisin paste in which lift it though.

Even though ogórki małosolne are nice and crunchy, the cz*sn*k just spoils them and they're better without.


Not a fan.. Don't worry about the 4% though. With tamarind, less is usually more.

I've never heard of those!


Love garlic, I use tons of the stuff in cooking.


I didn't know what it was so I had to google. Good luck and hopefully everything will be fine :)


Thanks for the riddles, I love a challenge!