Susan's mini house warming & Miracle fruit tasting test

Saturday, May 9, 2009 - 2:34 pm     English  |  日本語

Oh it took me awhile to post this one. Uggghhhh I’m frigging B-U-S-Y!!!

But, hmmmmm oh yeah, that was fun!
How much fun you ask?

Keep reading, you’ll find out why.

It’s always great to get together with friends over the weekend, and it’s even better when eating occasions involve. And this time, it was extra interesting because all other guests were enthusiastic foodbloggers. I got to meet FFIchiban from Here Comes The Food, Howard from eatshow&tell, Simon from the ♥ of food, Shez from one bite more, and Karen from Citrus and Candy for the first time, and my ex-coworker Billy from A Table for Two, Helen from the famous Grab Your Fork, and today’s hostess Susan from Chocolate Suze. They are such a lovely bunch of people with hungry stomach, I really had a great time.

OK, first of all, I don’t claim myself as a food blogger. (though most of my posts are food related..) And there’s this obvious difference between me and these enthusiastic food bloggers. They whip out their cameras as soon as the food gets on the table and transform themselves into food paparazzi! Contrary, I’d be holding my cutely in my hand completely forgotten about taking photos. (I’d even forget that I had brought a camera. VERY often.) So it’s really like their “keen eyes and observations on the food and ingredients” vs my “I’m starving.” I simply have to applause all the effort they put into their work – seriously, it takes hard work.

We started with these yummy dishes on the table – my god, that curry was sooo good! Great food and people, that’s all I need to make my weekend fun. But we had another agenda this time.

Billy managed to get miracle fruit pills called Miracle Frooties. Read all the details about Miracle fruit on Wiki because it’s better explained. Basically they are berries of Synsepalum dulcificum plant which causes sour foods to taste sooo sweet.

I’ve actually heard and tried it in Japan right before moving to Australia. The actual dried miracle fruit has been sold on Amazon Japan too. Unfortunately it seems like these miracle berries from Amazon are not available to purchase and ship to Australia due to quarantine reason. (Not confirmed, just a guess.) My impression back then was “yeah, kind of works eh.” – maybe it wasn’t strong enough, I don’t know. Lemon tasted sweeter, but still tasted like “lemon slice quickly dipped in a honey jar”. BUT THIS TIME, man we were tripping. Literally on ACID. Citric acid to be exact in my case.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, wig was required. Yup, mandatory.

With the pill in my mouth, I felt simply weird… The pill itself doesn’t have any flavour by its own – it was like sucking on a chalk. You sorta roll it on your tongue and let the Miraculin work in your taste buds. After dissolving the pill in our mouths, we were all set to start the tasting test.

As advertised it works great. Lemon tasted like a lemonade with aloooooooooot of honey/sugar, Passion fruit felt like a chocolate sauce, rice vinegar turned into some sort of undefinable liquor, beer tasted like coffee! I was particularly amazed how good citric acid tasted – and I had to take it to the max. Citric acid overdoes that was. Simon later on mentioned that acidity we had taken in was exactly the same amount no matter how different they tasted. And he was damn right about it. It caused me such a excruciating stomach ache later on – gastric hyperacidity!! Who would’ve thought that to come back and bite me later on? Not me.

Susan got her housewarming present – the voodoo knife stand. From her face, we all know she’s onto something.

Gradually the tripping effect wore off, and we moved onto our desserts. Simon’s rich chocolate mousse, Karen’s finger-licking lime & chocolate tart, Helen’s coca-cola cupcakes, Billy’s cute Domo-kun cake, and I brought my favourite Pavlova roll cakes from Sideways Deli Cafe. Hmm-Hmm.

During the dessert, Billy had to be Billy. The pictures give out what happened eh?

How did the revenge taste Billy? Yeah, lick it, that’s right, LICK IT!! *whips*

The whole time that I was driving toward the city with Helen, everything smelled like parmesan cheese. I was pretty sure that was from the cream, but, who knows, it could’ve been Helen. Whichever more convincing. *giggles*

Miracle Frooties are available at their web site – It’ll be a fun item to bring to your next party!