Wasabi Peas!
Who cares that it’s been the wettest June since records began when you have Wasabi Peas? Not me.
Anyone who’s popped round to my house for tea knows that I’m very into Japanese food and enjoy making my own sushi. Japanese ingredients aren’t completely impossible to find in the cultural metropolis of Todmorden, but some stuff is hard to find, so I mail order it from the Japanese Centre in London, where they have all sorts of nice stuff…
So, Wasabi peas for desk-snacks now and lots more California Rolls to come soon.
Anyone hungry? 
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Most (all?) Tesco stores sell bags of Whitworth stuff in the new age yoghurt-weavers’ foods bit, and if you look carefully you should be able to find both seaweed peanuts (my personal fix) and wasabi beans, a mix of soya and black beans covered in dried wasabi. They’re splendid - though slightly frustrating in that you have to restrain yourself from throwing a large handful into your face when you’re really peckish. Unless you enjoy nasal pain, of course
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Wooo!
I ate about half a packet of those very same ones last night before my sushi. The best bit’s the way they get hotter after they’ve been out of the packet a while as they soak up the humidity from the air.
There’s a great Japanese shop round the corner from me, the only problem is trying to figure out what’s in the packets. The last snacks I bought had little crunchy dried fish in…
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:54 pm
It is always a bit of a lottery in an Asian supermarket, isn’t it?
Oh look, they have sausages… nope, that’s dried eel…
July 4th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
cheers for that- that shop looks ace! I hit the Chinese supermarket in Sheff last week- full of similar little treats!!
July 10th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
I have just discovered the joy that is wasabi peas, but sadly I have to resort to the online shopping extravaganza…. the Tesco’s in Chineham certainly doesn’t stock them. Anyone know of a shop in Hampshire?
July 12th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Wasabi peas! Mmmm…