Chinese love exotic food. Heck, it must be the inborn trait of humanity - that irresistible urge to try some exotic dish and brag about it. Shuddering on the inside as you remember these 7 hours you spent throwing up after that. Men are especially prone to eat everything that they find.
Anyway, in China it's Western food that is considered exotic (Eating steak instead of nice deep-fried intestines?! Eew!). There are two types of eateries you are likely to encounter: Restaurants which are just that and cafes, where you also get to drink that strange stuff them foreign devils call 'coffee'. Now cafes are much more fun. Usually you get to order a set meal there (steak, soup, maybe some salad with plastic-tasting mayo in it). The soup will be inevitably of canned Campbell's variety, diluted to the point that to know what it is supposed to be you have to check the menu. Steak is usually good, and the salad better be just left untouched.
But the funniest thing I got was that Cordon Bleu pork steak I got today. Imagine a good, solid, well-done pork chop... stuffed with SPAM. Makes you wonder what's wrong with humanity... When Chinese are being creative, you'd better be careful!
By the way, the pork chop still was good. And there even was a pretty girl playing piano!
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