Kafeimei - Happy Snack or Dried Poo?
From the snack bin, peering out at me, were the eyes of someone familiar. Though I wasn’t sure who the hell he was until a couple days later, I was sure I knew that face. And thereby, I bought Kafeimei.
Hrm, I was hoping it was coffee candy or something, but, well, I was not anywhere in the vacinity of sugary candy.
The face should be familiar to you if you’ve watched any Hong Kong cinema. I remember seeing his face opposite Chow Yun-Fat’s… So I pulled out my LD of God of Gamblers and lo and behold, he’s the small time gambling den owner. Look that up in IMDB and find out it’s Fui-On Shing… A better page for him is at I Love HK Film.
So, what kind of candy resides in this bag? Well, it’s hardly candy in a sense, but…
I opened the bag, and a thick odor of tobacco surprised me. Chaw? That’s a southern US thing, not something I’d expect out of Hong Kong.
Opening up the wrapper, I was sure it was a classic snack; a special something from Fui-On Shing himself… Individually wrapped poo.
So, your intrepid snacker figured if it was going to be Fui-On Shing’s poo, it would be I who would taste it, to keep you all free of poo. My friends were telling me it might be something different, but I braced myself for poo.
It had a hard center, as if someone swallowed a seed whole and the poo nugget formed around it. It had fibrous strands through it as well… I guess my friends were right, it was a dried date.
Oh well. All that trepidation for dried dates. It tasted like, well, dried dates taste. Guess that would truly classify as a classic snack. Thank you Fui-On Shing for bringing a classic taste to an otherwise High Fructose Corn Syrup of a world.
