Chinese food
In seventeen days I will leave for China. With so little time left I have been getting a little lenient on the money I have. Most of the year I spent it keeping it saved up. As the yuan has been losing value recently a lot of this money would be better spent in China than bringing it home. I plan to purchase a tablet, and maybe some other nice stuff for myself as well as some gifts. One of the things I have been spending money on though is food I never tried before.
China has a lot of different and unique food completely unheard of in the USA. Cucumber flavored potato chips being a perfect example. Why someone would prefer such a flavor when cucumbers can just be purchased for quite cheap is beyond me, but alas it is an option here. I have also been enjoying the endless amount of tea China has to offer. Most of it has been very expensive so I´ve not purchased the higher ends, but lately I have been. The tea really is great if there is one thing I will miss about this country it will be the great tea.
It will also be weird not having to use chopsticks on a normal basis anymore. I plan to purchase some fancy chopsticks of my own here to use whenever I can in the US. I imagine I will quickly end that obsession once I go back to using fork and knives on my own but I need to spend this money on something so why not.
Living so close to New York City I imagine I will visit Chinatown a bit more frequently from now on. I guess I will try to preserve my Mandarin level since it can come in handy. These kids, and I can hold a basic conversation together so why not. I still have no plans to use the Chinese characters though. Fuck that. I tried to ask them to write down "sneeze" in Chinese, and almost none of them could do it. Even some of the adults I asked had difficulty with it. If the Chinese even have some problems with certain words, I think I will stick to using the pinyin thank you very much.
China has a lot of different and unique food completely unheard of in the USA. Cucumber flavored potato chips being a perfect example. Why someone would prefer such a flavor when cucumbers can just be purchased for quite cheap is beyond me, but alas it is an option here. I have also been enjoying the endless amount of tea China has to offer. Most of it has been very expensive so I´ve not purchased the higher ends, but lately I have been. The tea really is great if there is one thing I will miss about this country it will be the great tea.
It will also be weird not having to use chopsticks on a normal basis anymore. I plan to purchase some fancy chopsticks of my own here to use whenever I can in the US. I imagine I will quickly end that obsession once I go back to using fork and knives on my own but I need to spend this money on something so why not.
Living so close to New York City I imagine I will visit Chinatown a bit more frequently from now on. I guess I will try to preserve my Mandarin level since it can come in handy. These kids, and I can hold a basic conversation together so why not. I still have no plans to use the Chinese characters though. Fuck that. I tried to ask them to write down "sneeze" in Chinese, and almost none of them could do it. Even some of the adults I asked had difficulty with it. If the Chinese even have some problems with certain words, I think I will stick to using the pinyin thank you very much.