Where is it? The fridge at work is filled with people’s lunches and groceries and my sandwich is nowhere to be seen.
It seems unlikely that someone would steal two pieces of bread with some hard tofu between them, so it must be here. What’s behind that container… yes, it’s my sandwich!
Poor, squashed sandwich that I made yesterday. Does it even qualify as a sandwich?
I pull it apart and pop the bread in the toaster to perk it up a bit.
The bean cake is very firm. Each square is a few centimetres across and one thick, brown on the outside and pale cream inside. I bend it; it stretches before breaking down the fold.
Nibble the edge. It is completely tasteless, but with the consistency of rubber. Maybe if I microwave it it’ll improve.
I find the communal mayonnaise and spread the toast with it. Mmmm mayo. So much better than butter/margarine. Ding! goes the microwave. Pick up the hot bits of curd with my fingers and plonk them between the toast.
Back at my desk I take a bite. The toast is fine, the mayo is tangy and the tofu… is still rubber.
Chew. Chew. Swallow.
Urgh, that’s not very nice. It’s just… chewy and tasteless and dry.
I eat more, but the mayo is the only good thing about this lunch.
Rubber is the only word for it.
I’m hungry and this is the only lunch going, so I eat it all but it’s so depressing after a morning of resisting cake that I should just go and splurge at the shops. I feel entitled to some kind of reward for making it through!
I have no idea how they can call it ‘five spice’. More like ‘no spice but lots of old tyre’.
Rating:
Specifics: Unigreen Five Spice Bean Cake bought from an Asian grocery store, Ingleburn
Five Spice Bean Cake
Where is it? The fridge at work is filled with people’s lunches and groceries and my sandwich is nowhere to be seen.
It seems unlikely that someone would steal two pieces of bread with some hard tofu between them, so it must be here. What’s behind that container… yes, it’s my sandwich!
Poor, squashed sandwich that I made yesterday. Does it even qualify as a sandwich?
I pull it apart and pop the bread in the toaster to perk it up a bit.
The bean cake is very firm. Each square is a few centimetres across and one thick, brown on the outside and pale cream inside. I bend it; it stretches before breaking down the fold.
Nibble the edge. It is completely tasteless, but with the consistency of rubber. Maybe if I microwave it it’ll improve.
I find the communal mayonnaise and spread the toast with it. Mmmm mayo. So much better than butter/margarine. Ding! goes the microwave. Pick up the hot bits of curd with my fingers and plonk them between the toast.
Back at my desk I take a bite. The toast is fine, the mayo is tangy and the tofu… is still rubber.
Chew. Chew. Swallow.
Urgh, that’s not very nice. It’s just… chewy and tasteless and dry.
I eat more, but the mayo is the only good thing about this lunch.
Rubber is the only word for it.
I’m hungry and this is the only lunch going, so I eat it all but it’s so depressing after a morning of resisting cake that I should just go and splurge at the shops. I feel entitled to some kind of reward for making it through!
I have no idea how they can call it ‘five spice’. More like ‘no spice but lots of old tyre’.
Rating:
Specifics: Unigreen Five Spice Bean Cake bought from an Asian grocery store, Ingleburn