Earlier tonight, we were hungry for a snack or appetizer before dinner (fried rice and soy-ginger tofu) was ready. On checking the larder, a veritable feast was waiting to be created from odds and ends of ethnic food.

After some thought, we assembled our multi-cultural nosh: gefilte fish, wasabi sauce, wasabi peas, tortilla chips, salsa, and British bitter. This originally came about because we both had a yen for gefilte fish (heh) but had no horseradish on hand. But we do have powdered wasabi, which is actually a kind of horseradish (at least in the US. Eureka!

After documenting this creation, we set to.

Surprisingly enough, it wasn’t horrible. Actually, the wasabi and the gefilte fish were pretty tasty, but only because our taste buds had already been trained to recognise both food separately as “tasty,” so it wasn’t that difficult to convince our palates that both foods combined would be equally so.

Neither of us were brave enough to try the gefilte fish with the salsa, but we did try wasabi peas slathered with the stuff, and again “Not that bad.”

The beer was totally the wrong choice, however. An ice-cold Pilsner might have been a better match.