Today’s Menu
Lunch (bao cai fan):
- Mom: Bullfrog
- Dad: Spicy and sour duck feet
- Lance: Fried pork with spicy peppers
- Helen: Eel and cucumber
Dinner (with headmaster and English teachers):
- 1,000-year-old egg (actually fermented for 10 months)
- Tofu with pork
- Spicy whole mini shrimp
- Sweet squirrel fish
- Happy family stew
- Sugary shredded potatoes
- Hollow vegetables
- Spicy steak with bones
- Spicy pig intestines
- Beer-battered duck bones
- Eggplant
- Apple vinegar (cider)
- Chinese beer
- Yogurt (sour milk)
May 9th, 2007 at 11:24 pm EST
My mouth begin to water…
May 10th, 2007 at 4:29 am EST
Hunan, it is very funny to me that when you read this your mouth began to water. When I read this my eyes began to water as my belly shook, and I know that by tonite the parental units rears will begin to water.
I am fully positive that Dad found the duck feet and Chinese beer to be the tastiest, while Mom found the bullfrog and spicy pig intestines to be delightful.
May 10th, 2007 at 8:16 am EST
Mom liked the bullfrog and beer-battered duck the most, and dad liked the potatoes and happy family soup (and the seaweed soup he also had for lunch).
May 10th, 2007 at 9:40 am EST
you know…its really quite strange how people begin to make these foods from something like neccesity, then they become a cultural dish. i wonder if that means dirt pudding is a cultural dish in america…hmm…
May 10th, 2007 at 10:11 am EST
Hi, HP! I cant understant the sentence “I know that by tonite the parental units rears will begin to water.” but I think it’s a funny thing. I find the sentence “My mouse begin to water” from the Brer Rabbit Book. The story is about Brer Fox and the White Plums. When Brer Rabbit told Brer Fox about the white plums. “Old Brer Fox’s mouth began to water”. I think it means Brer Fox want to eat them. right?:smile:
May 10th, 2007 at 8:28 pm EST
“My mouse begin to water” LOL!!!!
Is it not amazing that the Chinese are so free with their dietary selections, while in the USofA, you can be prosecuted for selling horsemeat?
New definition of torture : send a representative from PETA to China …
BTW, Hunan, Bre’r Rabbit is a racist and offensive story and people who read it and find it funny are morally deficient. Just ask Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.
Join the club.
May 10th, 2007 at 8:28 pm EST
Yes Hunan, that is exactly what my mouth begins to water means. My eyes began to water means I started to cry because I was laughing so hard, and their rears begin to water means that after Lance’s parents eat that food their stomachs are not used to they will probably have “liquidy” bowel problems, to say it nicely.
May 11th, 2007 at 6:54 pm EST
AASIG! (use a [german]:shock::shock::shock::shock: dictionary)
May 13th, 2007 at 12:51 pm EST
I like brer rabbit…he was as important as Peter Rabbit, Rabbit of The 100 acre woods, that rabbit you bop on the head, Bugs Bunny, and many other cartooned icons in my life. Important insights into the past culture of America did I glean.
And he speaks funny.