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Skriven 2014-01-22 23:37:42 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9002 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: night & day 84
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to ALL on 21 Jan 14  06:21:00 <=-

 ML> I particularly liked and would have enjoyed
 ML> experimenting with a big pile of offal - kidneys, hearts, livers,
 ML> and skin - that was sitting there with nobody even here in this
 ML> city with a substantial poor population taking a look.

Except for the travel companion who wouldn't have enjoyed the
experiment, sigh...  Perhaps all the people there already had enough at
home that day and weren't in the market for that...?  

 ML> Food stalls featured stir-fried veggies with small amounts of
 ML> pork or fish with hot sauces. I'd maybe have tried something
 ML> but for the dubious hygiene (no running water at any of these
 ML> places - the cooks have to truck it in from someplace else,
 ML> and who knows how many times the plates have been used with
 ML> only a wipedown between. The smells were pretty good.
 ML> Clearly this was reality, neither pleasant nor picturesque, but
 ML> a slice of life. We didn't buy anything.

Only observed...  

 ML> food was more interesting - seafood served in big portions,
 ML> sushi!, lots of good stuff. I had a sausage made of pigskin
 ML> and lard minced together and spiced like a Chinese lop cheong,
 ML> i.e., a touch of star anise, garlic, sugar, saltpeter, and
 ML> red coloring: it was one of the most delicious things I'd ever
 ML> eaten, and I was so enthusiastic that Lilli accepted a taste.
 ML> She excepted it as well, thinking it yucky. 

Oh, well...  Sounds interesting enough that I'd've tried it... :)

 ML> Speaking of which,
 ML> bugs are available here but not at the day market: I guess that
 ML> they're really poor people food, foraged for by those who can't
 ML> pay for market protein, and the working lower classes avoid
 ML> them, saving their portion for the upscale people such as myself
 ML> up for a cheap thrill. I got a portion of mixed silkworms and
 ML> crickets, the former tasting like mushy edamame (I guess that
 ML> even though normally living on mulberry leaves, these must have
 ML> been fattened on soybeans); the crickets would have had a nice
 ML> shrimpy taste except that they'd been soaked in bad soy sauce
 ML> before frying. Also available were cicadas and grasshoppers,
 ML> but I figured six ounces of greasy fried insects was more than
 ML> enough (I ate only half of them).

Interesting, too...  I might have tried one each, for starters... I'm
only intermittently sqeamish...  (G)

 ML> The sausage cost 15B (45c) and really filled me up. The insects
 ML> were twice that but were quite a large serving.

Inexpensive eats, anyway...  :)

 ML> I got a knit hat for 100B. It had been quoted as 120, but after
 ML> some hesitation on my part, the hawker cut the 20. I bet the
 ML> going rate for natives would be 50 or 75, but I can't find my
 ML> knit hat, and it'll be cold when I get back to the Northeast.
 ML> Anyhow, 100 is the size of the commonest bill.

Not a bad deal....

ttyl          neb

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