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Should the world eat more like the Cantonese?
Hong Kong is a rabbit’s warren of eateries offering all manner of dishes – some of them not for the faint-hearted. But could this adventurous eating actually be good for us?
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I'm actually in Hong Kong (exploring my options to run away from the US before it turns into another Nazi Germany or another Venezuela), and the food is amazing. Also, you see almost nobody who is obese (as in China), even though they eat a lot of fat. I'd say the main differences are that they eat little sugar, they eat actual food (as opposed to Tostitos etc.), and they walk instead of driving. Nothing that you didn't know already.
Hong Kong seems like a good fit. You've often mentioned your disappointments with popular democracy. Seeing as how in Hong Kong that's only a fiction, an ornamental fig leaf fastened on colonial government by the British immediately before they bugged out, there's zero risk of a populist demagogue coming to power. Plus, karaoke with /u/Appaloosa!
I am presently in a little town in France called Val d'Europe looking for a potential refuge from the aspiring corruptacracy known as the SAR. After 10 days on the road though, I do miss my dim sum, to the point of losing perspective. Give me char siu or give me death!
Awwww I thought we could meet for some beers. Next time, maybe.
That would be pretty cool. Are you lecturing there, attending a seminar or job hunting?
I was giving a seminar, but also checking out job opportunities. Haven't yet decided to leave but better to be prepared.
Overdone pork? If that’s hard to find, France really has changed since I was last there. I wonder if you’d’ve any more luck trying to get chicken feet...
I was lucky NOT to find chicken feet here!
When we’d go for Dim Sum when I was a kid, my thing was that we should stop off first to pick up some pork hum bao. I was skeptical of ‘authenticity’ in Chinatown. Come to think of it, I still am. Yikes, stasis! Oh no. I think I have to try the chicken feet now. Or the blood porridge. Or something I’m sure, at this point, I’m going to regret. Drat.
The first time I saw chicken feet on a plate in Penang I thought I was participating in some voodoo like ritual. It was mind boggling to me that they were there to eat. I'm not a picky eater, but eating collagen one molecule at a time from the bones of chicken feet is remarkably unrewarding.
The one redeeming pleasure in eating chicken feet is that it is acceptable to spit the tiny bones out on to your table or plate in public. This is so against Western table manners that it makes you feel like Che Gauvara...Larga vida a la libertad!
Chicken wrapped in fig leaf is a popular dish eaten by the reticent rebels of Hong Kong. We only sing patriotic songs of The Motherland here....don't drag that decadent capitalist swill (unless it's the Archies) to this fledgling red state.
That's cause fat is not the culprit,sugar is. The sugar industry paid off scientists to vilify fat way back when and bought them off quite cheaply. If fat made you fat, the ketogenic way of eating would not work.
Fat doesn't make you fat, and sugar doesn't make you sweet.
That's sure true!
Enjoy your stay! whereabouts are you staying?
University of Hong Kong :)