What was Jeremy (Jude Law) eating in a couple of scenes. It was a shape of a giant Hershey's Kiss. It looked like some sort of pastry with something inside. I could not tell if it was a pie like dessert or more of a savory pastry. It looked very interesting.
Anyone know?
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it was the blueberry pie his customers never ordered but he kept baking anyway...
shareNo way. She was eating the blueberry pie. He was eating the stuffing inside a big shiny domed thing. For the life of me I can't figure out what it is. It's so trivial but I'd really like to know.
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LOL someone obviously did not watch the movie if they thought it was the blueberry pie. I think it was some kind of meat pie. it was definitely not a sweet.
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i thought it was either a baked alaska:
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GZAZ_enUS284US285&q=baked%20alaska&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
or just a dome cake with icing piped to the center:
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GZAZ_enUS284US285&q=dome%20cake&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
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I was just thinking this as I watched it again. I thought Baked Alaska but then I realised you have to eat that as soon as you cook it otherwsie the ice cream melts, so he couldn't leave it and just nibble at it later *unless* he has an amazing recipie that I'm going to steal.
Also, it doesn't look like shep's pie to me...
I'm sure it's some kind of meriunge on top....
At the high point of our intimacy, we were just 0.01cm from each other.
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Yeah true, but Baked Alaska isn't Baked Alaska without ice cream! But I think a custard filling is a great idea and I may have to experiment... and I'll post the results if it's anything like what Jude's eating.
At the high point of our intimacy, we were just 0.01cm from each other.
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"I'm sure it's some kind of meriunge on top..."
Are you sure it's a meringue, or could it be mashed potatoes piped on top of a mini-shepherd's pie?
I think it is a Russian dish (which makes sense in the movie setup).
It's, for the lack of a better description, formed by several layers of thin pancakes with stuffing in between layers (cheese, onions, mushrooms) and then encased in a very thin bread dough in the shape of a dome. It's savory and very, very, tasty. Also, a lot of work to put together.
I had it once, when a Russian classmate invited us for dinner, but I can't remember how the dish is named...
I've never heard of this Russian dish, but what you say makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
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Hmmm... I still can't stop thinking about it. 'm gonna freeze frame my DVD on it one of hese days and inspect it in great detail. If only my DVD player had a zoom function! Pastry you say? We need to track down Jude Law and ask him personally.
At the high point of our intimacy, we were just 0.01cm from each other.
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I jsut watched it yet again, and I still can't decide. I'm thinking that the filling may be some kind of baked apple, but I could be way out.
You seem very beautiful to me...
He's eating lemon meringue pie!
New York City, (bad) coffee shop/dinner style. All sky high, fluff and air, too sweet and sticky meringue piled onto a flat, artificially bright, mucilaginous, sickly sweet filling with no tartness or natural flavor. Baked in a mealy, greasy, falling apart crust. The blueberry pie didn't look too good either, flat and filled with viscous, canned blueberries.
I'm an ex-pat native New Yorker living in Asia so I know of what I speak.
All in all the pies are an apt metaphor for this film, interesting to look at and wonder how it tastes but ultimately leaving one with a bad aftertaste and an empty sugar rush.
Also there is no place in New York City where you can see an elevated subway and with a view of the Empire State Building that he keeps showing. That’s artistic license, it’s not a travel doc so it’s really nether here nor there.
It does say something that the defining image of his film about NYC and transport is false.
All that being said I did love "In the Mood For Love"
Renfield: Isn't this a strange conversation... for people who aren't crazy?
Dracula (1931)
Finally! Someone has the answer, I'm so pleased. Lemon meringue seems something Jeremy might go for, and come to think of it the filling was definitely lemons. Well done. I have to disagree with you about the film though, maybe not up to Wong's best, but still absolutely beautiful.
You seem very beautiful to me...
That didn't look like meringue to me. It looked like pastry. When he was shoveling the food in his mouth at the end of the movie I thought the filling looked like something chopped. I guess we all have our own opinions of whatever it was and we'll never know for sure unless it comes up in an interview or something.
shareits a Brazilian dish called pamonha de milho
kid, hey you need to sit down someplace.
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I love it, though I understand many other people (even Wong fans) don't. It's such an engaging watch, full of atmosphere and top performances. What did you think?
Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream...
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"I think it is a Russian dish (which makes sense in the movie setup)...It's, for the lack of a better description, formed by several layers of thin pancakes with stuffing in between layers (cheese, onions, mushrooms) and then encased in a very thin bread dough in the shape of a dome. It's savory and very, very, tasty. Also, a lot of work to put together."
Are you sure it's Russian? It sounds almost like moussaka (Greek).
No, probably not. Maybe it's some kind of blini pasty, which would be Russian.
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Lol I was thinking it must be some kinda Russian dish (b/c of the name of the restaruant), kinda like a meat pie or something non-sweet. So yeah that works for me.
shareYou know, I was wondering what that was too...
It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.
Indiana Jones, "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
The dish Jeremy (Jude Law) was eating in a couple of scenes looks like some dessert. I did some search and think it's Rum Baba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_baba). This dish also has Eastern European roots and popular in Russia.
shareThat would kinda make sense, since his ex-girlfriend was Russian.
shareI got it. Its a Pirogi. Sweet or savory filled bread. Very russian and they can take lots of diffrent shapes and sizes. I am pretty sure hes eating a savory one though.
Heres a link to Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrih
and heres one to a good Pirpgi resturant in St:Petersburg
O, by the way, really crappy film.
Darn it.
I think you got it; you beat me to the punch.
I was going to say Cornish Pasty...
I love this thread so much.
I think we may have a winner in 'pyrih' (which sounds decious, and I think I'll have to try that out one of these days), but I'm still convinced it's a lemon filling. Wong often uses food as symbols, or as important 'points' in his films (ITMFL, Chungking, Fallen Angels, Ashes of Time), so having a Russian dessert to demonstrate Jeremy's longing for his previous relationship with Katya (sp?) would make perfect sense.
And by the way, I think the film is so underappreciated, a marvellous, sweet film.
Then you just took it. It was so intimate. It was like we were already lovers.
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"I think it is a Russian dish called Kournik (or Kurnik)."
By George, I've think you've got it, vskay!
Looks like they used some sort of 'phyllo dough' as the dome's crust--it looks like it's in such a swirling, delicate pattern.
Kind of an obscure food for the audience to draw that it was
a. a Russian dish that b. connected him to his ex girlfriend.
Wouldn't herring would have been easier?
Thanks for that info, I was wondering what it was too! I knew it wasn't blueberry pie, because she was eating that. At first I thought it may have been something from his hometown of Manchester, but this Kournik/Kurnik makes sense.
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