tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post472465003610833532..comments2024-03-14T04:06:54.124-04:00Comments on GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher): sacred dumpling defiledgenkakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-49948004643206928112017-03-30T16:33:51.299-04:002017-03-30T16:33:51.299-04:00Adam, I can't even begin to grasp how it is ev...Adam, I can't even begin to grasp how it is even possible to eat oatmeal with chopsticks. I'd still be fighting with my first meal of the day by the time the monks began their last, ruining the monastery's routine...<br /><br />I suppose that when the sacred is ungraspable, even with chopsticks, better pick the lesser evil.Tiagonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-87172990820052961912017-03-30T13:34:24.247-04:002017-03-30T13:34:24.247-04:00Tiago -- At the Zen monastery I flunked out of, on...Tiago -- At the Zen monastery I flunked out of, one of my greatest challenges was to eat oatmeal with chopsticks. Soon enough, I recognized that there was a line to be drawn between etiquette and nourishment ... and if I were inept enough and hungry enough, fingers would suffice.genkakuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-12415981450109195612017-03-30T12:54:37.170-04:002017-03-30T12:54:37.170-04:00I remember going to a family style chinese restaur...I remember going to a family style chinese restaurant in London once in my early twenties and struggling with eating rice using the traditional chopsticks. By the time my friends were nearly finishing, I was still half-way through.<br /><br />When I finally gave up and asked the old-enough-to-be-my-mother lady owner for a knife and fork, she went off grumbling lowdly in chinese.<br /><br />My knowledge of the sacred is as shallow as my chopstick practice and I can't understand a word of chinese, but at least I got the knife and fork I needed to finish my meal.Tiagonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-58653058686496691072017-03-30T11:47:41.075-04:002017-03-30T11:47:41.075-04:00Ugly Americans and Uncouth Brits eating Soup Dumpl...Ugly Americans and Uncouth Brits eating Soup Dumplings Improperly? Ha!<br /><br />Such a fuss!<br /><br />I blame the restaurants and the critical but unhelpful Chinese foodie purists.<br /><br />Years ago my mother took me to a Shanghai restaurant in Chinatown and introduced me to soup dumplings. There the waiter explained how to eat them properly. He also warned that we needed to be careful as the "soup" may be near steaming hot when we bit into the dumplings. <br /><br />When one of the better Chinese restaurants in my neighborhood began serving S.D.'s, our waitress also offered a mini-tutorial.<br /><br />When one is lucky to get an order which is served hot but not scalding, they're sublime!<br />New York the only US city with 3 Chinatownsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-11224862025555245632017-03-30T09:48:30.116-04:002017-03-30T09:48:30.116-04:00No compassion for the unKool?
No compassion for the unKool?<br />olcharliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00309255390011851502noreply@blogger.com