Today was a great day. I started with going to Purple Mountain for a school function. It was to acknowledge the students who are 18 years old as adults. After that was over, we climbed the mountain, and there were parts where I actually go to climb!! I was excited for that. After that, we went to this sandwich shop and got lunch. Afterwards, we hung out in our classroom until 3, then we went and painted Easter Eggs!! Afterwards we went to the local lake and layed in the grass. We then decided to rent a boat for an hour and had some fun there! afterwards we went and got some fried noodles and ate them in the classroom. We finally went home after that so we can have fun tomorrow on Easter! Happy Easter Everyone!!!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Just when I thought the food couldn't get any weirder....
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SO if you thought that dinner I described was weird, then wait till you read this. First thing I try is the root of a water lily, not my cup of tea but it wasn't horrible. Then came the duck tongue. I thought it was a scorpion without a shell or something like that, but no, it was a duck tongue; actually a plate stacked high with them. Its this weird grey miniature of a human tongue except that it has two giant antenea like things that stick out like the part that connects your lower jaw to your upper jaw. It wasn't bad, but I couldn't eat more than one bite of it, i just couldn't get past the fact that it was a duck tongue. Then i had shrimp on a stick. Now the way they prepare seafood in China slightly differs than the fish fillet or the shrimp we know. In America it's all nicely prepared and de-boned and not looking at you as you eat it. In China however, they catch it, sell it at a market, while it's alive sometimes, and just cook it as is. So at dinner you have to feel guilty while your picking the bones out of your mouth while the fish looks at you. Its the same with shrimp, you have to rip the head, legs and shell off before you eat it. Then I tried duck palms, thats right, they actually eat those. Then some beef and pork that was what I was used to, yumm, and then with a baked duck soup. The way they roast a bird is also different here, they leave the head and neck on, so once again you feel guilty as you eat the animal while it watches you. To the Rainey family though, the soup tasted a lot like our slop, except there wasn't as much in there. All in all, the lunch was interesting, but it would have been better with grasshoppers, haha. If you think this is weird, one of the Americans in my group ate duck tongue a while ago, as well as rabbit head. They take a rabbit, remove the fur, and they cooked nothing but the heads. He says they were pretty spicy. In China, everyone thinks that everyone eats cats and dogs. We figured that was too main-stream because we know of a place where they take it up a notch. We haven't been there yet, but before we go we are all going to eat wolf and tiger meat!
I've got to go do my homework, enjoy the blog!
SO if you thought that dinner I described was weird, then wait till you read this. First thing I try is the root of a water lily, not my cup of tea but it wasn't horrible. Then came the duck tongue. I thought it was a scorpion without a shell or something like that, but no, it was a duck tongue; actually a plate stacked high with them. Its this weird grey miniature of a human tongue except that it has two giant antenea like things that stick out like the part that connects your lower jaw to your upper jaw. It wasn't bad, but I couldn't eat more than one bite of it, i just couldn't get past the fact that it was a duck tongue. Then i had shrimp on a stick. Now the way they prepare seafood in China slightly differs than the fish fillet or the shrimp we know. In America it's all nicely prepared and de-boned and not looking at you as you eat it. In China however, they catch it, sell it at a market, while it's alive sometimes, and just cook it as is. So at dinner you have to feel guilty while your picking the bones out of your mouth while the fish looks at you. Its the same with shrimp, you have to rip the head, legs and shell off before you eat it. Then I tried duck palms, thats right, they actually eat those. Then some beef and pork that was what I was used to, yumm, and then with a baked duck soup. The way they roast a bird is also different here, they leave the head and neck on, so once again you feel guilty as you eat the animal while it watches you. To the Rainey family though, the soup tasted a lot like our slop, except there wasn't as much in there. All in all, the lunch was interesting, but it would have been better with grasshoppers, haha. If you think this is weird, one of the Americans in my group ate duck tongue a while ago, as well as rabbit head. They take a rabbit, remove the fur, and they cooked nothing but the heads. He says they were pretty spicy. In China, everyone thinks that everyone eats cats and dogs. We figured that was too main-stream because we know of a place where they take it up a notch. We haven't been there yet, but before we go we are all going to eat wolf and tiger meat!
I've got to go do my homework, enjoy the blog!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Young GRASSSSSHOOOOPPPPPPPAAAAAHHHHHS!!!!
Are part of what I had for dinner this evening. That's right, I ate grasshoppers. They were pretty tasty too, you just need to add some salt and pepper to it and it brings all of the flavor out of it. I also got to eat roses, which were really good. Picture a rose petal, completely surrounded by fried funnel cake batter and filled with a sweet bean curd sauce. And you dipped it in icing!! Yumm! But today was an interesting day all around It started with a 2 hour car ride to a Buddhist temple in Ling Shan, and it was HUGE!!! But on the way there, I saw a familiar sight from home if you live near Delaware. I saw a Dupont warehouse. For those of you who don't live in Delaware or Maryland, Dupont owns almost everything there, and that's not a huge exaggeration either. So then we were at the temple complex, which was at the base and on a mountain. And on this mountain there is a giant Buddha. I mean absolutely humongous! I can't even describe how big it is! But before you get there, there's a bit of walking to do; thank goodness there are so many distractions along the way. The coolest thing was this giant flower fountain, which was really a water show. It shot water, cool. But then the flower opens up and a baby Buddha rises out and is sprayed by nine dragon statues. He spins around slowly a few times, gets sprayed again, and then hides back in the flower. It was soooooo cool. So then we climb the mountain and we actually go right under the Buddha and see this giant museum. The Buddha was just as cool as the water show. It's the biggest free standing copper Buddha ever made! If you donate 1,000,000 RMB (Chinese Dollars= $152,000) You can have your name forever placed upon one of the copper leaves he stands on. So after we saw the Buddha, we went to Yi Xing to another temple,, which was smaller but a lot more fun. So first you have to go through this under ground tunnel which was made by an underground river, which is still there. I may have almost lost my head once or twice because the rocks were so low, but thankfully I didn't hit any of them. So then we take a cable car to the top of the mountain to see the temple, but guess what it's closed. But this is the cool part, there are two ways to get up the mountain, but three ways to get back down. you can walk, take the cable car, or you can take the slide. The slide was soooo awesome, I could have gone down that all day! After that the whole place was pretty much closed so we went home. When we did get home, we went across the street for dinner where we had some beef, some pork, some rice, some grasshoppers, and some rose petals. Great way to start the week! Hopefully it will get even better!
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