SUNDAY: I’m Sorry To Say, Chinese and Western Food Cooking Shall Never Meet

Is it racist to say that Chinese people in China aren’t great at making Western food? That is my experience anyway. And that experience is now almost 28 years. Wow! Not that I have eaten much Western food in China. But sometimes I’m with people who insist on eating in hotel restaurants and, as on one terrifying occasion, i was forced to have western breakfasts every morning for days because I was on a I can barely bring myself to say it tour. (I’ll tell you about it one day. Or you can read all about it in my book Don’t Joke On The Stairs.)

(Western food, Norwegian café, not China)

I’ll keep going to Chinese breakfast buffets maybe once a year for the stories and to keep the repulsion alive, but other than that I’m too fond of meals to sacrifice myself further.

種族主義 （Jung jok jyu yi – racism)
中餐 (Jung chan – Chinese food)
西餐 (Sai chan – western food）
犧牲自己 (Hei saang ji gei – sacrifice oneself)