How i spent my Wednesday evening

[kyllo_in_china]

I just cooked myself sweet and sour pork from scratch (and it was really good, unlike the last time I tried), and watched The Graduate on DVD. Total cost? Less than four dollars. It's times like this that remind me how much I love China

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TAKE THAT, MYKE! JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED!

[mcsarah]

(HEY MYKL! DID YOU HEAR THAT! Maybe now that KYLLO said it, you can believe me, eh?)

Yeah, I remember wondering about that, and then you told me that some western recipes called for ketchup. I laughed.

About a year later, I was at a chinese restaurant with our very own Mykl and Greg. I randomly shot that bit of trivia out, telling them that once I heard ketchup is responsible for the color of the sauce (although it's actually just colored syrup most of the time, with artificial dyes). Myke didn't believe me and accused me of "making up facts just to entertain," (which he does all the time). I was embittered. I remembered you had told me that, and contemplated holding you responsible for the fact, but I decided against it to avoid obnoxious name-dropping and just sat there quietly, eating my sweet and sour whatever it was

[kayanna]

huh, that's not how I make sweet and sour. no ketchup. just, well, tang n cu. (and the other usual suspects)

[kyllo_in_china]

Yeah, there are two different kinds of sweet and sour sauce. The red kind has ketchup, and it's more like Hong Kong style, which explains why we have that kind in America. The kind you get in Sichuan is usually the not-red, northern-style one, but I've had both kinds here. I think it tastes better with the ketchup.

I used to think Chinese food in America was really fake and inauthentic, since it's so different from the food in Sichuan and Beijing. But after going to Hong Kong, I realized that American Chinese food is basically just Hong Kong food.

Hey dude, thanks

[da_rosas]

Greetings, I've come to your blog from the zhongwen community where I read your response here. Wanted to THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for your response. I can't tell you how unexpectedly livid I became when I first read that "request" desiring tutoring help in Vancouver, etc. I actually wasn't going to respond initially, but the youngster who responded with what the difference is between NE male and NE female, inspired me to make a response finally. Unfortunately, it's an old, painful peeve of mine. Sadly, on some issues, I turn borderline flamer, as in blow torch. The specificity of that request is just so mindbogglingly offensive and insensitive, it could almost be funny, if it wasn't indicative of what so many people really do. Sorry, old and painful button on this

Re: Hey dude, thanks

[kyllo_in_china]

Haha, I liked the "bilious vomit" part.

Yeah, stuff like that gets really old. I love how she responded to my first comment with the My favourite accent I've heard is from people from northeastern China, but not Beijing itself. I met a girl the other day with the most wonderful, clear accent--she made me so happy--but sadly, she wasn't interested in being friends.

HAHA.

If I were that girl with the "wonderful, clear accent," I would have avoided her like the plague, too. I could continue trashing on Ms. hsi_feng for multiple paragraphs, but I'd be preaching to the choir

[pezfetish]

I saw it yesterday in the comedy section.