Today we went to the "Taste of OSU" as a combined dinner/date. It's a huge multicultural event, where the 35+ ethnic student groups on campus set up informational booths, put on dance and music performances, and best of all, have delicious ethnic food booths. They had a system set up where you buy food tickets for a dollar each and then exchange the tickets at any booth for a taste (about 3-4 bites' worth) of whatever foods you were interested in.
We loved the variety! There were well over a hundred dishes there to try, so even though it was pretty crowded, we had a great time walking around the different countries' booths and whenever we saw something that looked good, we handed over a ticket and got a few scoops on our plate. It was also a great deal--for $10, we got to try ten foods we had never eaten before, and we were completely stuffed afterwards. Awesome date!
I brought my camera but I completely forgot to take pictures. Also, I didn't do a very good job of remembering the names of dishes, or even what country's booth we got most things from...this is going to make it challenging to recreate these dishes. Oh well. Our favorites were:
White asparagus soup (Germany)
fruit and nut and chocolate bar thing (Poland)
Vegetarian Muka Duka...or something...it was yellow, with wontons, rice, veggies, spices (some...Asian country :/ )
Malaysian brownie--European-style biscuits layered with a fudgey mixture of chocolate, sweetened condensed milk, butter, and nuts. I at least got the ingredients of this one (Malaysia)
Japanese vinegar rice wrapped in tofu and fried
Greek cream-filled cheese with pistachio and sweetened rose water
Indian....savory filled pastry with sweetish sauce
So tasty! And so wonderfully cheap! We're definitely going again next year.
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