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Originally posted by Reggie Dunlop@Aug 23 2005, 01:06 AM
To tell you the truth, I've picked up a smattering of Mandarin and Cantonese over the years from people I work with or know. Not that I'm claiming any sort of affinity with the culture (there's a term, isn't there? Egg? White on the outside, yellow inside?). Just sorta interested in getting the Real Deal and would like to know of a place that can cater to my request. That's all.
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That would be me and my friends (and girlfriend).
I am an egg and they are banana's... or so we say... eek! lol...
I was going to mention the 'set' thing and i must have forgotten in my original post. Even at Asian McDonalds they often/usually call the meals 'sets'. Pretty hard to eat authentically alone, that is for sure...
The best is when the family 'Ama' (Mom, or grandmother sometimes too, depending) picks one restaurant over another because it is like $1 more but for 2 more people and then i get invited to fill the seat but am the only one who can eat that much food (I am 6'4, 230) so am told (through translation) by the cute old people at the table that i have to eat up! Ack...
Last night i was enjoying this 'sweet date dessert' and am like, 'what is this white noodle stuff?' and found out it was stringy fungus - to much ammusment that did not need translation...
Sometimes i think they invite me along just to amuse the old people who rarely leave chinatown and have never been so close (in a personal sense) to a white person before! :P
Claeren.