Real hot chocolate and snow haiku
Sometimes when you're constructing a haiku on your fridge at midnight, you kind of uh... forget how to do it coherently. I resorted to the familiar, and wrote about yellow snow. It hasn't snowed in New York yet but folks... just eat the white stuff. No yellow snow and for goodness sake, definitely not any other color either. Ew. Last week on Serious Eats they had a section about 12 days of hot chocolate. This past weekend I got some hot chocolate from Batch, the Pichet Ong bakery in the West Village.
I grew up drinking hot chocolate made from powder packets. Usually they were Swiss Miss or something like that. I still enjoy a cup like that every now and then. They're not as rich or chocolaty as some of the hot chocolates you can find in boutique stores/bakeries.
At Batch, they give you a cup of hot frothy milk, and then they unwrap a chocolate fudge lollipop and drop it in the milk. It's a really fun concept on a good tasting hot chocolate. It's no where near as thick as a City Bakery hot chocolate, but you can't drink a thick hot chocolate every time.
Anyway, last night I was hanging out with the guys and playing Pixel Junk Monsters when we started talking about a funny topic. It's really only funny for us and maybe y'all out there won't think it's as great. But in the middle of running around in the PS3 building arrow towers and dodging monsters, we were talking about where the Asian male falls on the dating totem poll.
I can't really get too deep into the discussion since it's mostly based upon anecdotal observations, stereotypes, and personal experience. For example, the Asian female is way higher on the totem poll than the Asian male. Now I remember how this got started... we were talking about the efficiency and success rate of online dating for an Asian male. And there are numbers to show that online dating sites in the U.S. heavily favor white males and white females. It's just fun to listen to Asian guys break down exactly why Asian guys have trouble. I'm just glad that I don't have to worry about any of this. But yea, how many other food blogs you read this week is going to mention dating totem polls? Didn't think so.
maybe your next enterprise is a dating site that caters to Asians, assuming there's a market for it. there are certainly dating/matchmaking services for Jewish people, etc.
Anon
December 15, 2008 1:55 pm
I made some similar hot chocolate last night! I purchased these blocks of choc on a stick like the one you photographed...unfortunately, it's all too easy to just lick all that chocolate and not have it in your milk...
Su-Lin
December 15, 2008 6:49 pm
@Anon,
You bring up an excellent idea. Free dating sites that live on advertisement actually do really well because there's a built in demand in any market. And the paid sites will advertise to get people from free sites to go use theirs. Specific and targeted sites like j-date probably do really well too, but an enterprise like that is such a huge undertaking :P Believe me, I've thought about it before, and it's an interesting idea to say the least.
@Su-Lin,
Oooooh, what a great idea for home! I would be eating the chocolate off of the stick too...
Danny
December 16, 2008 10:31 am