When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go

So! Yesterday was the last day in the studio followed by three pre-recorded programmes in the series Naked Cantonese on RTHK. And the last episode ever was, very appropriately, recorded in the same public toilet where we have spent so many happy … minutes.

During the live programme I explained to ah-Sa that her frequently aired bunnies are actually called 事業線 Si yip sin – career path. Well not the bunnies themselves but rather the career-path-looking line running down between them. Cantonese, eh? So deep! (When I say “frequently aired” I don’t mean “taken out,” but “mentioned on air.”)

Then it was off to yam cha where guess how many of our irate listeners turned up? Two! No, not me and ah-Sa. And then: Straight to toilet. As you can see, the new doors they have inexplicably put in, are completely inferior to the yellow, funky ones of yore.

Yep, that was it. Thank you, ah-Sa for all the fun. SO much fun. And if the last three episodes aren’t very interesting or funny, well it was because I, for one, was strangely emotional and couldn’t think straight. So there you have it. But this is not the end! No. The fight for Cantonese world supremacy goes on. Watch this space!

Bye-byyyyyyyyyyyyyyye!

好忙呀！ Busy!

I’m cooking for eight people tonight and I’m really looking forward to it. I will make Beer O’Clock Dumplings,

Chicken a la Water Buffalo

and Kung Fu Cucumbers,

– among other things. Five other things, in fact.

Now my Sichuan cookbook CHILLies! Sichuan Food Made Easy 

will soon be available online from various platforms. Until then, swing around Pui O this month and sample some, I have to say, very good and wholesome Sichuan food. And beer! Beer is included.

八個人 (baat goh yan – eight pieces people)
川菜 (chyun choi – Sichuan food)
功夫 (gong fu – kung fu)
辣椒 (lat chiu – chilli)

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