"Gregory Morrow" wrote

> Many of us enjoy sending - and receiving - "care packages" of various
> culinary goodies and such...
>
> Who do you send them to...???

When I was in Japan, I sent most of them stateside and got things in return.
I once sent ture Japanese chopsticks to Moscow though (and packed the sides
with neat little japanese food items and hard candies).

> What do you include in them...???

It was things I could get easily and folks were facinated at a packet of
something with no english on the label. Not expensive stuff but the returns
were not either, just stuff I couldnt get.

Lets see, 100yen store (think dollar store) chopsticks, spices, munchies
(they have some really neat munchies you've probably not seen). Also noodle
bowls of the types not sold in the USA, dried seaweeds (not nori, you can
get that USA easy), dried spiced baby shrimp (usually got those in Korea), a
korean red chile powder I never had a specific name for, kida candies that
would ship well (they have some of the neatest stuff in that line!), and
powdered Calamansi (add sugar and it's a drink, dont add sugar and it's a
spice). Dried mushrooms of the legal in the USA sort but not button or
shiitake (which you can get here) such as cloud ears etc.

> Longest distance one of your care packages has travelled...or most exotic
> destination...???

Hehe well, from Japan I probably was the 'exotic' side of the deal? However
there was a packet to Moscow with chopsticks and such. Moscow though was
closer than CT I think? Most packages went to CT or Hawaii.