So today we had a really fun day with some of the students at our school. We went to the park and had some fun doing things there. Those things I will write about tomorrow. But for this entry I will write about an experience that we had with them tonight and it revolves around that picture you see above.
As we were walking home we were asked by the group of girls that we were with we were going to eat for dinner tonight. We told them that we were going to cook some noodle and they found this to be no good. The girls insisted that they will cook us food, despite us telling them that they had already been nice enough today. The conversation somewhat suddenly got changed to the topic of give people flat tires while walking and we were able to get off the topic of food. We didn’t bring it up again hoping that they would forget about it.
Fast forward to tonight as we were eating our noodles at about 9 in the evening. Suddenly there was a knock on our door and there were the group the girls that we were with today with food in tow. Because tomorrow is Jordan’s birthday (HAPPY BIRFDAY BUDDY!) they also had brought him some girl. Now before I proceed let me assure you that what they did was really nice and sweet of them.
The food was the awkward part of the night. The brought us a bowl of rice with different food on top and some really good cucumbers, which, unfortunately, were the only good thing about the food. The rice was topped with a bunch of stuff. The best part was this meat called lei lo, which we like but it goes down hill from there. Other stuff included pork liver, giant nasty looking mushroom, mini prawns (yuck!), chicken with thick skin attached, big chucks of fat and a some vegetable that was really crunchy.
As we are not allowed to have students in our apartment, we were hoping that they would leave so we could stop eating. They didn’t leaving so we just ate like normal, for Americans. As we were standing there talking and eating, one of the girls said that we don’t need to be gentleman. Confused we asked what she was talking about and she told us that is OK to shove the food quickly into our mouths like the Chinese. :S
A quick moment after that another girls said that we should eat very quickly because in China if someone brings you food you eat it quickly to demonstrate that you like it. :S x 2. So we picked up the pace to what our stomachs would allow. Desperate to find a way to get rid of some of my food, I pretended to be looking out the window while tossing my food. I later found out that Jordan dumped most of his into a bowl in the kitchen and hid it. I later added to his pile and we were able to “finish” our meal.
Don’t eat pork liver.