Category: Grubbin’

It’s not called the wheel, it’s not called the carousel, it’s called the donut.
Mister Donut [Japanese relict version] in Hong Kong.

  • December 1, 2024
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Grubbin' HerpDerp Is that the way it is? The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Part of the LED sign outside the recently-opened ‘Mister Donut’ shop in the K11 mall in Tsim Sha Tsui. Starting in young adulthood, my once robust sweet tooth and my propensity for consuming junk food in general (bagged snacks, carbonated sugary drinks, etc.) gradually faded away. A slice of cheesecake or a pint of ice […]

Rejoicing at the surcease of boiling + some slapdash snapshottery (Saturday Nattering)

  • October 12, 2024
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Grubbin' HerpDerp The Diary of Lupin Pooter
What I’ve got for you here is a haphazard assortment of photos and observations. First up, an orange inside an orange. Navel oranges (including the Cara Cara ‘varietal’ aka Cara Cara Navel, mentioned here back in May, often have a second miniature peel-less orange inside their peel, but blood oranges aren’t navels and the peeled and halved blood orange shown in the photo above contained a second, much smaller (a thumbnail’s width in diameter or, to put it another way, slightly smaller than an olive) orange which boasted (and this was the novel aspect for yours truly) a peel of its own.

Treated with LILs, NILs, ZOLEs

  • May 24, 2024
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Grubbin' Is that the way it is? The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Empty bag of M&S Seedless Extra Large Oranges from Spain. Another post about oranges. Last time, . This time, we’re talking about a different cultivar, the Midknight Valencia Orange. The bag shown in the photo above originally contained four big oranges and was purchased at great cost (HK$ 65 or roughly US$ 8) from a […]

Cara Cara oranges: thinking about citrus fruit coatings
[and close-up images of their Sunkist-brand poly bag design]

  • May 20, 2024
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Grubbin' Is that the way it is? Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter To see a world in a grain of sand
Clip-on phone camera microscope view of a section of orange-skin-pattern from the design printed on the bag of Cara Cara oranges Last month, we tried a type of orange that was new to us: Cara Cara. The origin of this orange cultivar is a fascinating story and the way that citrus farming works in general […]

MACROPLASTICS ATTACK!

  • March 23, 2024
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Grubbin' The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Yesterday, while picking up some necessities (coffee beans) in a local supermarket, I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to pick up some overpriced ground beef and some other items to soup up the regular tomato-based sauce for the leftovers from the Italian sausage I’d cooked the night before. Delicious beef, sporadically available as an increasingly infrequent […]

JUST BARLING EGGZ

  • March 5, 2024
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Grubbin' HerpDerp Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter To see a world in a grain of sand
Today’s post: two short clips of the changing condensation patterns on the inner surface of the glass lid of a stockpot, filmed consecutively while I was hard-boiling a couple of dozen eggs at some point in the past few days. The videos are set to loop and are muted by default but the audio is […]