[Sca-cooks] Re: herbal question

[Mark.S Harris]

Angeline commented:
> > > Better for treating tooth decay in the long term. The burn from wasabi
> > > is too short lived to be of much use to your sinus clearing needs.
> Cayenne
> > > is a much better choice for that. :)
>
> I disagree about the sinus clearing.  Maybe it depends on how much wasabi
> you eat, and how much they have watered it down.  When we first started
> visiting the chinese buffet I didn't know you were supposed to mix the
> wasabi with the soy sauce so I was smearing on a liberal amount and gnawing
> on it.  Sometimes depending on exactly how much you ate at one time and
> whether or not you enhaled it would really clean out things.  ( I have
> horrendous sinus problems.)  One chinese buffet place waters it down, one
> doesn't.
>
> I most of the time don't add soy sauce to my wasabi, I like it hot like
> that.

Huh? Uh oh. You're supposed to add soy sauce to wasabi????

I do know that wasabi often varies in how hot it is. I had heard
that the fresher it was the hotter it was.

I like wasabi on sushi and I've got a nice wasabi/mustard sauce
I bought. I'll have to try watering down the wasabi with soy
sauce. But then I would probably just eat more of it.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net