Explosion Cheese Durian Pie
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From Fuchsia Dunlop’s Facebook page (taken in Xi'an):
The large characters on the yellow sign say:
Māo shū | bàojiāng zhīshì liúlián [ bǐng]
猫叔|爆浆芝士榴莲[饼]
"Uncle Cat | liquidy cheese durian [pie]"
The difficult part of this pastry name is "bàojiāng 爆浆", the constituent syllables of which mean "explode / burst" and "thick liquid".
Detailed explanation from Diana S. Zhang:
"爆漿xxx" (xxx = specific food) originally signifies desserts with molten cores, like a chocolate lava cake or a molten cheese tart. In this case, it is a durian pie with molten cheese as its filling. The name "爆漿" (liquid exploding) intends to give its customer a direct description of how this durian dessert's liquid center "explodes" in their mouth. Gradually, 爆漿 can be applied to any succulent foods, not limited to desserts: e.g., "爆漿珍珠" (liquid-filled bobba in milk tea); "爆漿雞排" (extremely succulent chicken tenderloin), and 爆漿西紅柿 (juicy tomato — imagine its juice flying out the moment you take your first bite on it).
I suddenly remembered there is another extended use of 爆漿: a kind of web fiction is called 爆漿糖小說 (lit. juice-exploding candy novel)…… well, without too explicit a further explanation, I believe one may get a sense of which genre it belongs to and why such a topic/genre is named so (vulgar, yes…). It's not a widely-used name yet (maybe because of its nature), but since I know some coteries of web-fiction authors in person, it's kind of like a jargon among them and their fanatical fans.
Here are some pictures if you want to see what they look like.
Selected reading
"Malaysian Multilingualism" (9/11/09) — several other posts touch upon the infamously foul-smelling fruit called "durian".
"Meat patty explode the stomach" (12/28/11)
"Bakugai ('explosive buying'): Japanese word of the year nominee" (11/14/15)
"Naked dough" (5/22/14)
"Buckwheat noodles enema and other delectables" (10/28/13)
"Chinglish medley " (2/9/16)
"Kim Possible Taste " (1/24/11)
"Just what they DIDN'T want " (9/22/08)
Adam F said,
September 24, 2019 @ 3:53 am
Similarly, there are desserts called "bombes" in French and English:
Escoffier gives over sixty recipes for bombes in Le Guide culinaire.
ohwilleke said,
September 28, 2019 @ 6:38 am
Looking at the images it looks like an Asian quesadilla.