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Posts tagged: fireworks
I saw the Expo fireworks (back when they were on, not recently). Not sure I saw the same show as the rest of the world…
They weren’t high, didn’t go on that long, and were underwhelming in general. That or the Shanghai skyline is sooooo huge you can’t see the night sky anymore. It is a possibility.
Chinese jeans are a small thing(s). XL is about 4 inches too small for my fat western legs.
Good, super awesome things that clean all your clothes without you asking, tidy away the empty beer and make sure you have drinking water, these things come in small friendly packages. My cleaning lady is one of those.
Tepenyake (?) = Big table, big hot plate, big chef, big food. All you can eat, and all you can drink. Awesome tasty varied awesomeness. Sushi, beef, seafood - whatever.
I ate all I could, and some of what other people couldn’t as well. It was good. So good all I can do is say is, “Do it”. DO. IT. Please.
As per Dr. Howie’s request I have indeed devoured a chicken foot (although I dont have any pictures, SORRY GUYS). It was like eating something that was bony, awkward and had been stomping around in shit all it’s days.
IT DIDN’T TASTE BAD. My chinese teacher showed me how to each it: You bite off the nails, spit em out, and then do that for each bone, all the while sucking off the tasty meat! That is how The Chinese sell it anyway.
I ate a whole foot (as in a singular foot, not one foot of chicken feet :/ ), it was a lot of effort.
I am still none the wiser as to why anyone would bother to eat it as opposed to KFC or something.
As well as tepanyake I accidentally went to an elaborate Japanese restaurant ‘thing’. Seven courses of stuff, one of which was some kind of seafood, so rare and crazy you only get one piece the size of a ten pence piece. It was so rare and crazy it tasted just like it had come from the sea! Can you believe it?
Also this dinner turned out to be a sake tasting affair. I got lectured on sake, and what makes it so tasty and awesome and have five kinds where they waste, like, most of the rice, or something. What it all came down to was that sake should be cold, that it is expensive but not as expensive as wine, and that it all tastes THE SAME (like something you only drink because someone else has bought it for you).
I think I had my funniest Facebook wall ever.
To come back home and check the ole’ facehook, to see only, “HAHAHAHAHAHA”, it is an impressive sight :P
