Reykjavík Grapevine - 26.08.2016, Síða 50

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N E W A W A R D
B E S T T H A I F O O D 2 0 1 6
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All food is gently cooked from fresh ingredients
and that keeps its nutritional value and original avors well.
it takes time to cook all the food, nothing is ready
Please prepare your time before you come to enjoy your meal
R E S T A U R A N T
Ban Thai is not a “fast food” restaurant
every meal take some time to cook, we cook after receiving the order
Food
CANDY OF THE ISSUE
Bingo Balls
The quintessential Icelandic "nammi"
Words ISAAC WÜRMANN Photo HREFNA BJÖRG GYLFADÓTTIR
I promised myself I would make it
through this entire candy review
without making a joke about Bin-
go Balls being called “Bingo Balls.”
My editor tells me the Icelandic
name for this candy—“Bingo Lak-
krískúlur”—provides less oppor-
tunities for inappropriate jokes
about testicles. So get your mind
out of the gutter!
Bingo Balls are everything you
didn’t know you wanted in a can-
dy. I’ve even heard some people
call them the quintessential Ice-
landic nammi. “If I was going to
give a foreigner some Icelandic
candy to try, I would give them
Bingo Balls,” says Hrefna Björg
Gylfadóttir, ever the truth-teller.
It’s a simple concept: take some li-
quorice (because c’mon, you can’t
have Icelandic candy without a li’l
liquorice), throw in some caramel,
and cover it with chocolate. And
voila—it’s a taste sensation.
I can already hear the liquorice
naysayers groaning (or perhaps
rolling their eyes). But do not fear:
despite the admittedly strange
flavour combination, Bingo Balls
will appeal to even the most
liquorice-averse. Somehow the
caramel masks the strong black
liquorice taste, leaving only the
faintest and most refreshing of li-
quorice root notes on your tongue.
To cap it all off, the smooth choco-
late coating will have you com-
ing back for more (and more, and
more, and more).
Of course, Bingo Balls don’t
come without their flaws. To begin
with, they’re awful if eaten cold.
I’ve made the mistake of tearing
open a bag in a tent in northern
Iceland in five-degree weather, only
to find that they’d turned into dan-
gerous near-frozen balls of disap-
pointment. Not only did biting into
the cold caramel almost chip my
teeth, the frigid chocolate coating
shattered into a million little pieces
all over the floor of my tent. Admit-
tedly, even when eaten warm the
chewy caramel and liquorice centre
can be tough on your teeth, but I like
to think of that as an extra exercise
for your jaw.
The second flaw is purely an er-
ror of design. If you open a bag of
Bingo Balls, there’s no way you’ll
ever be able to store them for later
without spilling candy everywhere
(unless you’re one of those people
who think ahead of time and bring
along an elastic or one of those
handy bag clips). The seam of the
bag will just keep opening wider
and wider until your pockets or
your purse or your tent floor is
covered with the stuff. Of course,
this problem could be easily fixed
by introducing a resealable bag
(Góa—I’m talking to you).
On the upside, there’s a very
good chance that after you’ve
opened a bag of Bingo Lak-
krískúlur you’ll end up finding the
little balls of chocolatey liquorice
goodness in the most unexpected
places for days and weeks after-
wards. So whenever you’re hav-
ing a bad day or feeling a little bit
down, you’ll always have a Bingo
Ball nearby to cheer you up.
SHARE: gpv.is/bingo
Icelandic Candy
50The Reykjavík GrapevineIssue 13 — 2016
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