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Wandering levels - *
Domestication level - ****
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Soup, is a liquid food prepared with loving care, devotion and a heck lot of patience. Well, unless you posses a pressure cooker. But I know they didn't. And I saw it with my own eyes. So the wanderer is a happy boy.
Had soup for the first time here! A friend from Canton was kind enough to invite me over for dinner and boy the food was tasty. The Cantonese are famed for their prowess in the kitchen and soup and this did everything to substantiate that belief.
On the menu was - Corn and carrot soup, minced meat with corn in some uber tasty salty sauce, braised, i think, chicken wings/drumlets and a supremely tasty bamboo shoots vegetable dish.
Over-dinner conversation proved to be an interesting affair, the SIngaporean thinking in English and working overtime to translate to Mandarin, and she (and her two other friends from China too) mentally deciphering my poor mandarin, and then translating to English. It was also pretty cool that we were all teachers (all 3 of them are studying for a Masters in Education), so it was nice to hear the academic terms I was familiar with being uttered in very beautiful Chinese. Managed to learn how to say "essay, review, papers and thesis" in Chinese. Beat that!
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