{"id":1029,"date":"2008-07-16T17:24:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2008-07-16T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T17:24:58","slug":"kakigori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Kakigori"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kakigori<\/a><\/center>My kakigori (Japanese shave ice) syrup arrived! I know, it’s kind of silly to order shave ice syrup online, but I conducted a not-terribly-in-depth survey of local Asian markets, and none of them carried the Japanese syrup in matcha flavor. So, in steps Asian Food Grocer<\/a>! Their shipping rates are very reasonable, and I ask, what price matcha? So, now it’s time for a kakigori party! In Japan they do all sorts of goofy things like scoop sweetened azuki beans onto the shaved ice, but I think I am going to opt for odango, little pounded sweet rice disks. I know, sounds kind of weird, but it’s yummy.
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\"icepet.jpg\"<\/a><\/center>The Ice Pet was excavated from my parents’ house a couple weeks ago. I have fond memories of my mother making us kakigori with it. There are special round trays for freezing ice disks, which then clamp onto the Ice Pet. It regurgitates whisper-thin, snowlike shavings. Let’s hope the vintage, primitive Ice Pet is still functional after all these years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My kakigori (Japanese shave ice) syrup arrived! I know, it’s kind of silly to order shave ice syrup online, but I conducted a not-terribly-in-depth survey of local Asian markets, and none of them carried the Japanese syrup in matcha flavor. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}