Re: OT: Chinese (& the Pearl Drink Invasion)

Hanuman, Monkey King, who must be groovin' that it's his year, writes:


>  >What is Durian Pearl Drink?
>
>     Durian fruit
We (translation: they) have a saying: It's like eating ice-cream in
an outhouse.

>      Pearl drinks - of many more "palatable" flavours besides Durian - are
>very very popular in Chinatowns nowadays...and spreadin' to shopping
>malls near
>you...
Spare me the pearls. Straws that look and feel like you're gonna
shoot blow darts. Gnarly texture. There was an episode of "The View"
a couple of years back, where Lisa Ling was describing that pearl
drinks were now all the rage on the West Coast. Her colleagues tried
them and made exactly the same "what-if-your-face-froze-like-that"
expression that I did when I first tried one. It's a cultural thing.

>     On the other shoe, many South East Asians can't see what is so freeakin'
>great about tea with [dairy] milk or what is the big deal with cream crackers
>or artichokes or caviar...
Or sauerkraut. I can clear a room of Orientals in no time flat! Bleu
cheese anyone?

Your sigs were totally kewl this time out, dewd. Gong hei faat choi!

Kou

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