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!
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...
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.
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.