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August 15, 2007
Sundried Tomatoes on the Silk Road
Sure, this is a shameless use of this blog for search engine optimization purposes, but can you blame me?
After all, when I'm not munching on naan or rockin' to the latest Uyghur VCD, I can often be found supervising the hard-working collective farmers who cut and dry China's finest sundried tomatoes. August is tomato season, so it's high time I put this blog to work.
Sundried tomatoes from China, you ask? Yes, you heard right. And these sundried tomatoes aren't produced using just some ho-hum common variety of tomato, but with extremely high quality tomatoes from Xinjiang.
So when you and your buddies are sippin' brew and chatting about Chinese sundried tomatoes, don't look like a fool. Just tell 'em about Demay Foods. Tell 'em Michael sent you. Tell 'em that their search is over.
posted August 15, 2007 at 04:44 PM unofficial Xinjiang time | HaoHao This!
Comments
You might tell us where we can buy them, otherwise we just have to look at the pictures.
Posted by: varske at August 15, 2007 10:11 PM
Unfortunately, we aren't selling these retail at the moment. If you're a buyer, you've got a restaurant in China, or are interested in buying for any other reason drop me a line and I'll see if something can be arranged.
Next time I head up to Urumqi I'll be dropping some off at the Fubar, so look for them on pizzas and pasta in the near future.
Posted by: michael at August 15, 2007 10:16 PM
Are those tomatoes Sun Dried?!
Posted by: ElamBend at August 16, 2007 09:45 AM
Yes, indeed they are. Hence the term "sundried tomatoes". It's funny that many people don't actually think about whether or not "sundried tomatoes" are dried in the sun. I can confirm that they are dried in exactly that way.
Posted by: michael at August 16, 2007 09:57 AM
My mom adds this "qaq" [sounds like very firm 'kak'] them to "suyuk-ash" or "menper":)
When I was a kid, we used to prepare this sundried ones from home-grown tomatoes just cutting tomatoes and placing them on a metal grates or a piece of wooden board under the sun.
In several days it was ready.
The same was done to apples, apricots or pears, whatever:)
Posted by: chon_dada at August 16, 2007 03:18 PM
I would like to have some of that too!!
Posted by: Postcards from Beijing at August 16, 2007 03:49 PM
I was being ironic. The picture looks pretty mouthwatering.
btw, I hope this helps:
http://elambend.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/best-sundried-tomatoes-in-china/
Posted by: ElamBend at August 17, 2007 07:42 AM
What the hell!? I've been searching for these for the last year. I've only been able to find a small jar of sun dried tomatoes at the American store for about 50RMB. More the reason for me to convince my wife to move to her hometown.
Posted by: Matt at August 21, 2007 06:20 PM
@Matt:
Where is your wife's hometown? Where do you live now?
Posted by: michael at August 22, 2007 04:31 PM
I would be interested in buying this product by the container load quantities for the US market...
thanks,
Posted by: Yigit ISIKER at September 14, 2007 10:58 PM
Dude,
This post comes up first in the Google search "China Sun-dried tomatoes" (Demay comes after this blog)
Success!
Posted by: ElamBend at September 27, 2007 06:13 AM
I know, it's awesome. We did it!
Posted by: michael at September 27, 2007 04:52 PM
What is your favorite way to prepare sun-dried tomatoes? Are the tomatoes packed in oil as they are in the west?
Posted by: Jonathan at September 30, 2007 12:30 AM
http://photofile.ru/users/elena521/3030063/?page=1
some more "qaq" pictures here, seems made in Turpan.
Posted by: chon_dada at November 28, 2007 02:07 PM