So far this week has been rather busy. I’ve had interviews with students and parents as well as taught 4 trial classes (to see if the students/parents like me and my teaching) as well as tackled a few of the odder foods of the area.
Let’s be real for a moment. We all get in our comfort zones, we like certain dishes and tend to cook one more often than others. For me, this gets a bit boring…good thing I’m in China, where the weirder it is, the more likely they are to eat it! As some of you know, I love sushi, so I mastered the art of using chopsticks before I arrived…so I don’t look like a complete idiot trying to eat with them and actually I was complimented on the fact that I use them so well. Go ME!
This week’s odd foods include but do not limit the following...boiled fish soup, some kind of sour pork, fishy chicken (yes, I said fishy chicken), a noodle dish with some kind of beef or pork (possibly both), but by far the oddest of dishes were the dried fish (something like our beef jerky, except it’s fish), as well as duck tongue…yes folks, I ate duck tongue!!!
We in the states will eat popcorn or possibly Buffalo wings while watching a movie, but my newest friend Anna and her husband, Moon, like to eat dried fish and duck tongue. Both of which are actually quite tasty. The dried fish was a little sweet and tasted, well, a bit like fish. The duck tongue was pan seared
with Coca-Cola and a bit crispy but also rather delicious…it was no Buffalo wing, but it was good none-the-less. I know, I know, you all are thinking “This chick is nuts”!! But hey, you only live once right…and as long as it doesn’t kill me and I like it, I may eat it again.
When in Rome, or rather Wenzhou!
Let’s be real for a moment. We all get in our comfort zones, we like certain dishes and tend to cook one more often than others. For me, this gets a bit boring…good thing I’m in China, where the weirder it is, the more likely they are to eat it! As some of you know, I love sushi, so I mastered the art of using chopsticks before I arrived…so I don’t look like a complete idiot trying to eat with them and actually I was complimented on the fact that I use them so well. Go ME!
This week’s odd foods include but do not limit the following...boiled fish soup, some kind of sour pork, fishy chicken (yes, I said fishy chicken), a noodle dish with some kind of beef or pork (possibly both), but by far the oddest of dishes were the dried fish (something like our beef jerky, except it’s fish), as well as duck tongue…yes folks, I ate duck tongue!!!
We in the states will eat popcorn or possibly Buffalo wings while watching a movie, but my newest friend Anna and her husband, Moon, like to eat dried fish and duck tongue. Both of which are actually quite tasty. The dried fish was a little sweet and tasted, well, a bit like fish. The duck tongue was pan seared
with Coca-Cola and a bit crispy but also rather delicious…it was no Buffalo wing, but it was good none-the-less. I know, I know, you all are thinking “This chick is nuts”!! But hey, you only live once right…and as long as it doesn’t kill me and I like it, I may eat it again.
When in Rome, or rather Wenzhou!