You can take the boy out of the Chinese village…
Even in multi-million dollar (correction: Yuan) condos, old habits die hard in China. The fact these fish were outside an office begs a question or two:
- Do people routinely take large fish to work with the purpose of drying them?
- How is this written up on your performance evaluations. Motivated self-starter. Occasionally distracted by outside influences of a culinary nature. ?
I’ve spent an afternoon or two watching fish dry from my balcony. It’s not as bad as watching paint dry, but close. That begs further questions but I’ll leave them be.
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October 10th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Someone has to be responsible for lunch, don’t they?
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October 10th, 2008 at 6:07 am
I’m with Ron on this one. Lunch, dinner, someone’s gotta take care of it!
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October 10th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Ron, Corina: You make a valid point, but, dried fish isn’t a “prep at work” sort of meal. Maybe he/she is doing long-term meal planning.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Yeah, you don’t see this too much around here…
Although, when I lived in Phoenix (which is a little hotter than Tucson), if we’d get up to 115 or higher people would try to be funny and crack raw eggs on sidewalks.
The scary thing is, they actually do cook if you leave them there long enough.
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October 10th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Monty Python on fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWlUu54muOs
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October 11th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Jackie: Yum, sidewalk eggs….
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October 12th, 2008 at 1:24 am
haha
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October 12th, 2008 at 4:34 am
LOL. Makes you wonder how it smells in the office.
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October 12th, 2008 at 6:48 am
I’ve seen people in Iceland hang fish on a clothes line to dry them but never on a sidewalk to dry
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October 13th, 2008 at 4:54 am
When I was in Korea recently I saw plenty of dried fish. I definitely wasn’t brave enough to try any of it myself. I also noticed a lot of squid and I’m still kicking myself for not getting a picture of the piles of Squid sold by vendors at the Korean-American Friendship festival I attended.
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October 13th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I have no words. Luckily, I also have no fish…
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October 14th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Ha.
Last week, I went to Coney Island and saw fish on display just like that.
“Porgys 10 for $5.”
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October 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Very nice. I like how neatly the fish have been arranged too on a white table cloth. All you need is knives and forks and salt and pepper.
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October 15th, 2008 at 4:20 am
yb: Some things are better left undiscovered.
QR: The Icelandians must be more advanced.
BM: Squid is one of my faves. I eat it BBQ’d.
Truce: No fish is good fish.
Lee: Fish crosses all international borders.
AJ: Pepper? On fish? Perhaps, I guess.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
It’s making me hungry.
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October 15th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
No pepper? Ah, but then I don’t eat fish, not even dried ones.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Craig: I’ll grab a few the next time I see them.
AJ: Are we talking about black pepper, white pepper, or hot pepper?