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Question Bag #14

I asked class number 14, a group of about 55 Junior 3 students, to ask me any questions that were on their mind. Here’s what they came up with (my favorites are in bold):

  1. Do you have wife?
  2. In the USA what place is the most interesting?
  3. Did you eat bad-smell tofu?
  4. Can I know how old you are?
  5. Why do you want to come to our school to teach us?
  6. What’s your best love?
  7. Would you mind playing some games with us to learn English?
  8. Do you like NBA?
  9. Do you know James White in Cincinnati University?
  10. Do you have children?
  11. What do you think of China’s education?
  12. Do you mind introducing your family?
  13. Do you have a dog?
  14. Do you think Chinese students are more difficult than U.S. students?
  15. How many girlfriend do you have?
  16. How many families do you have of USA?
  17. Do you like blue?
  18. Do you strange?
  19. How do you be a tall?

And my favorite question from this class:

  • Why don’t you go banana?

Which was your favorite? There were some juicy ones this time!

Posted to webeldotnet on Saturday, October 7th, 2006 at 9:33 pm EST in China & Education (comment feed). If you refer to this post on your blog, please trackback. Thanks!

9 Comments to “Question Bag #14”

  1. Sarah said:
    October 7th, 2006 at 10:24 pm EST

    Go…bananas!
    go, go…bananas!

  2. mark said:
    October 7th, 2006 at 11:14 pm EST

    Well, DO you strange? I’m all in favor of it.

  3. HP said:
    October 8th, 2006 at 6:13 am EST

    i agree. i mean, even herbie went bananas!

  4. angie said:
    October 9th, 2006 at 5:32 am EST

    how many girlfriends DO you have? ;)

  5. angie said:
    October 9th, 2006 at 10:59 am EST

    i also like ‘did you eat bad-smell tofu?’
    is this one trying to stealthily hint that you need a tic-tac?

  6. Lance said:
    October 9th, 2006 at 3:03 pm EST

    No … there’s actually a very famous dish in China called Stinky Tofu”. True to its name, the stuff reeks. Check it:

    “Stinky tofu starts out as regular nonoffensive tofu, but then it’s fermented for several months in a noxious brine of fermented vegetables, dried shrimp and other offenders. The brew has to be well covered because it’s a magnet for flies drawn to its fetid odor.

    Like yogurt and sauerkraut, the stinky tofu fermentation process creates a number of beneficial bacteria and a rather potent vat of volatile but innocuous alcohols, acids, aldehydes, furans and other chemical compounds that sound mildly intimidating.

    As the name implies, stinky tofu is indeed stinky. But stinky sounds cute and friendly like a baby fart. Stinky tofu is on another plane of stankiness. It’s like eating garbage inside a sewer on a hot day. Or maybe it’s like that time that when I was a kid walking in an orchard near San Jose City College and I came across an upended white bucket. Curious, I kicked it over and was assaulted by the sight and smell of a rotting goat head wriggling with maggots. No, that’s not quite it, either. How about this? When I worked in a cheese shop I was tasked with cleaning the blue cheese tray. After several weeks the Roquefort, Stilton and Gorzonzola and other blue cheeses oozed a fetid, yellow-green mucus that collected at the bottom of the tray. The smell burned through my sinuses, melting my olfactory glands with gassy, ammonia-meets-sun baked-soiled-diaper pungency. Stinky tofu smells kinda like that.”

    [via Metroactive]

    I’ve walked past stands of it on the street but still haven’t tasted it yet … regular tofu is disgusting enough for me.

  7. Sue said:
    October 9th, 2006 at 11:45 pm EST

    Do you strange? is my favorite.

  8. angie said:
    October 10th, 2006 at 4:47 am EST

    eh why on earth would someone make/eat that?

  9. Jack said:
    October 26th, 2006 at 1:34 pm EST

    bad-smell tofu
    Yeah. People come to changsha often go to the Huogong Palace
    The Stinky tofu there is the best in China.
    If you like peppery hot food go there. Lance must hasn’t been there!

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