Rice Cake?

Another item from the Winchester Farmers Market.

While searching for the Inari pockets that Chris likes so much, I was browsing through the cooler section at the Market. I came across this:What is it? Why is it so fancy? It reminded me of a funeral urn for some reason. For $3.99, I really couldn't pass it up. I mean, seriously, it looks kind of cool and whatever is in it must be AMAZING, right?

Yeah...amazing.

After closer examination, there was a tiny sticker on the bottom:
Rice. Sugar. Water. It passed the 1st test of being safe for the kid. I figured it must be like dessert. I was looking forward to trying this. I'm not usually this adventurous but this golden treasure was really intriguing.

After dinner last night and almost burning the house down, I wasn't in the mood to open it. Chris made pudding for dessert and I was enjoying every bit of that when he asked if he could open my golden mystery container. I thought about it for a minute and made him trade me his pudding for it. Double pudding beats crazy rice cake any day.

I gathered Grunty Gus up and shuffled to the kitchen to watch the unveiling.

Wow. I was immediately thankful for bartering this thing away and headed straight to the fridge before Chris could change his mind. It looked like a beige hockey puck.
Surprisingly, it also had the consistency of a beige hockey puck. I started giggling and Chris was trying to figure out exactly how to taste this thing. The spoon barely dented it and he started grumbling under his breath about his pudding, I moved to the other side of the kitchen.

He was really regretting this decision about now:
It really took WAY too much effort to shove the spoon in this thing.

He finally pried out a piece to taste. Maybe a big bite wasn't that bright of an idea.
At this point I was giggling uncontrollably.

I'm pretty sure that's the last time I get Chris' pudding in exchange for crazy asian food.

In retrospect, we probably should have researched rice cakes on the internet. I'm glad we didn't since it ended up being so funny but there is, apparently, a use for this stuff in legitimate cooking.