同志们好!
When my family lived in Kazakhstan, we noticed that American chicken legs get shipped there, since Americans only eat chicken breasts. Guess where the rest of the chicken parts get sent and enthusiastically devoured?
Okay actually I'm pretty sure they kill most of their own chickens here, but they really love the parts of the chicken that Americans tend to turn up their noses at.
For example, tonight at dinner...
"No, Ayi," (Ayi is what I call my host mom), "I actually wouldn't mind not sucking the flesh off of that segment of chicken neck, but you go right ahead." And she did.
I felt a little vindicated for many of the weird things that I have eaten in China when my host dad pointed at a dish tonight and was like "Uhh... what is that??"
But most striking of the dishes we had tonight was something I've only heard of but until today had not had the misfortune to taste: the dreaded 臭豆腐. Literal translation: "stinky tofu".
Title of this post: "Hello, comrades!"
Okay actually I'm pretty sure they kill most of their own chickens here, but they really love the parts of the chicken that Americans tend to turn up their noses at.
For example, tonight at dinner...
"No, Ayi," (Ayi is what I call my host mom), "I actually wouldn't mind not sucking the flesh off of that segment of chicken neck, but you go right ahead." And she did.
I felt a little vindicated for many of the weird things that I have eaten in China when my host dad pointed at a dish tonight and was like "Uhh... what is that??"
But most striking of the dishes we had tonight was something I've only heard of but until today had not had the misfortune to taste: the dreaded 臭豆腐. Literal translation: "stinky tofu".
Title of this post: "Hello, comrades!"
posted by Tom at
4:21 AM
5 Comments:
Well, Tom, not all meals are created equally. Remember the mystery soup that would turn up occasionally in Kazakhstan? Usually it was OK, but there was that one time. . . I KNOW I don't need to say anymore. I have been reminded of it too many times from the whole family. But I have to agree that "stinky tofu" doesn't sound particularly appealing to me either.
I'll stick with normal tofu.
Was it fermented tofu? I've heard about something along those lines. Speaking of, I should probably get some food to eat. I kind of missed lunch.
P.S. I'm not your comrade. I'm your sister. ;)
haha stinky tofu is fermented tofu...but it's soooo goood..did you enjoy it? it doesn't smell very nice...but it tastes good (i had it for the first time when i was in taiwan 2 summers ago)
haha...welcome to the world of chinese diet...when they say they eat everything...they literally mean it...did you eat chicken feet yet? it's a popular dish at dim sum here =] frog's legs...pigs' intestines...but i think it gets horrifying when my parents keep joking around about cooking our dog ><
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