Wednesday, 22 November 2006

• What's the deal with nem chua?

  This may be an insignificant post, but a student at a university here gave me a food called nem chua, something I'd heard of yet never had before, and it's a little baffling to me.  So, the adjective bears it up well, as it is slightly sour, but there's not much of it when you actually get to it.  I won't post more pictures, but it begins as something cubish, one inch on every side, and all wrapped with banana leaves.  Unwrapping it, there are as many banana leaves wrapped up in there as there are number of licks that it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.  What I'm trying to say is there's a lot of banana leaves, and in the end you get the nem chua that is about the exact-size of the knuckle of my thumb up to its tip. 

  I guess if you're not going to use the banana leaves for anything else then have at it, but, good night, I've only had four of these half-digits, and I'm filling up a decent-sized plastic bag with banana leaves. 

  Oh, yeah, tomorrow's Thanksgiving, isn't it?  Below is the equation for my reaction to that reality: 

   +  = me (or )

  (Yes, I just used smileys.  It happens to use all.  If I start quoting songs by Christina Aguilera or Justin Timberlake, be worried, both for my concepts of lyrical and musical quality.)

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