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Skriven 2014-02-19 17:43:08 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9957 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Asian 212
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 15 Feb 14  22:59:00 <=-

 ML>> Almost being the operative concept. There are so many
 ML>> good things to eat.
 NB>> And only so much stomach space to put them... ;)
 ML> When faced with the choice of good and familiar or
 ML> good and novelty, I will mostly choose the latter.
 ML> Except if the former is on my top foods list, which
 ML> of course is headed by beefsteak. When I go outside
 ML> North America, beefsteak is often problematic (as is
 ML> "fried chicken," which more often not is stir-fry).
 
So being in places where the familiar is unlikely to be quite as
familiar as it would wish you to believe only makes it easier to go for
the novelty...  :)   Makes sense to me...  :)

 ML>> animals are worth more working than they are as food, so the
 ML>> meat is scarce, even unavailable, until it's old and tough.
 NB>> So most likely to need tenderizing treatments... and to end up in
 NB>> soup, more than likely...  :)
 ML> There are other tenderizing treatments that work with
 ML> greater or lesser success. Slicing on thin diagonals
 ML> against the grain; coating in cornstarch to prevent
 ML> liquid oozing into the wok and lowering the temperature;
 ML> cooking in small quantity in a large amount of oil at
 ML> high temp. You still get the sense of chewing on elderly
 ML> protein, but it's not all that bad. Soup is a good way
 ML> of dispensing meat flavor among a lot of people, though.

True...
 
 ML>> All in all, I'm happier to have seen the Doi Tung palace and
 ML>> the Doi Tung temple than have detoured back to see the other
 ML>> museum.
 NB>> Ah.  Depth, and interest, are in the eye of the beholder, after all...
 NB>> sounds like you saw sufficiently what you wanted...  :)  The Doi Tung
 NB>> might well be the better experience, all things considered...  :)
 ML> I didn't mention that the Hall of Opium, though under the
 ML> auspices of the Doi Tung Foundation, is at least an hour
 ML> and half drive from the Doi Tung palace, which is close to
 ML> half an hour's drive from the Doi Tung temple. The latter
 ML> two are actually pretty close, but you have to go down the
 ML> side of one mountain on wiggly roads populated by wiggly
 ML> bicycles and suchlike and up the side of another, ditto
 ML> (two different peaks of a mountain called Doi Tung).

Ah, so you saw three different places already... hence there wasn't time
for the other museum, further away (and in the opposite direction...?)

 ML> Our driver was exceedingly pleased when we asked to see the
 ML> temple; as it turns out, it is his regular place of worship
 ML> despite its being an hour from his home. He had a little
 ML> replica of the very distinctive twin stupas as a good luck
 ML> charm on his dashboard, which he pointed out when we arrived.

An unexpected good deed done... ;)  And perhaps he felt that you had
added to his good luck... :)

ttyl       neb

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