Curried fish balls, enthusiastically vouched for, lack heat and have the suspiciously dense texture of Chicken McNuggets.
The range is wide, from the gelatinous and chewy texture of chicken feet to the rubbery consistency of jellyfish, the melt-in-your-mouth velvety feel of slow-braised sea cucumber to the silkiness of soft tofu and the various textures of sashimi.
In my opinion, wet brining does nothing for chicken but change the texture of the chicken to be more like ham.
At first, I ignored the floppy texture of the chicken.
The effect of high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) conditions (pressures: 0 300 MPa and times: 60 180 s) and sodium chloride (NaCl) concentrations (0 2.5 g/100 g) on physical and quality properties (pH, water activity (aw), expressible moisture (EM), cooking loss (CL), color, and texture) of white chicken meat before and after thermal treatment were investigated.
The shawarma here is a triptych of textures: shards of chicken rendered as crisp as bacon, tender lengths of thigh swollen with juice and almost airy wisps of meat that quickly dissolve into the chicken-flavored ether.
"It comes to us warm, though, and the texture of the chickens, even at its raw phase, is something remarkable".
A tall man whose ribs showed like those of a famine survivor when she sponged him, whose head was partly bald, and whose skin looked as if it had the texture of a plucked chicken's, his neck corded like an old man's.
The penis was also flavorless, with the texture of a cooked, tender chicken gizzard.
Customarily made with fish steamed in curry until it achieves a mousse-like texture, here it takes the form of chicken, breaded with curry and swamped in coconut curd.
That so many Benders, including the quilt makers, were willing to part with their creations reflects the complex texture of a place where chickens and cows share the road and generations of families are often clustered in a phalanx of weatherworn houses and mobile homes.
