Look, talk and eat like a Chinese campaign

Color-treated my hair…. completely BLACK. Back to my black hair roots!
I've definitely always looked very Chinese, but now looking more Chinese than ever …the next step is to brush up on my Mandarin.

I had dinner last Tuesday with my former colleagues, whom I suspect took up Chinese as first language when in school. My ex-manager used a mandarin phrase “wu yi si wei ...” and I thought he was speaking Hokkien! Need to watch more Taiwanese talk shows to brush up on mandarin language skills.

As a race, the Chinese have a lot of pork. Main meat staple, in fact. Hope we're not what we eat. Hmm...recently, I had alot of sweet soupy Shanghai xiao long baos dipped in vinegar with ginger slices. Fresh pork is so good.

During a sunday coffee session with my girlfriends, who were Chinese Chinese or Chinese Peranakan, we realized that we all had, at one point in time, stopped taking pork for various reasons, but later resumed pork-eating habits again.

For instance, one of the Karens started eating much more pork when she was posted to Vietnam. After she got there, she realized that all the local specialties involved pork in one form or another. So for practical gastronomic reasons, she consumed more pork, and concluded Vietnamese Pork is the Best in the World! If my sister were here, maybe they can argue on Vietnamese Pork versus American Bacon.

The general consensus was that air-flown pork (pigs can indeed fly!) does not taste as good as pork transported in other manners. T**** said it’s because the air-flown pork pigs were not neutered, so there’s a lot of hormones in the meat and that’s why it's relatively smellier. Never knew it was all due to hormones.

Friends disgusted with air-flown pork:

Dilly is a pesco-vegetarian now (more pork for us then!) and couldn’t contribute personal opinions on pork taste, but, when she was in Chiangmai, Thailand, she witnessed a baby pig that got neutered with a very thin wire. And the severed parts were promptly thrown into the fire, I assume she means BBQ pit to be cooked. And all this while, the poor baby pig was squealing away. But we know it will grow up to be a big, strong, hormone-free pig, and provide non-smelly meat for all.