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You won't find a recipe for this in any Sichuan cookbook, but it is replete with Sichuan flavours and attitude. Not for the faint hearted. Prawns with asparagus, garlic, ginger, green Sichuan peppercorns, fresh green chilli, dried red chilli, doubanjiang and scallions. Rice. The three dried chillies on the rice are meant to read 川 (chuān) as in 四川 (sì chuān) which is a common abbreviation for the province.

We also called them pancakes. It was all a plot to confound the English - we baffled them by havng scones which they thought weren't scones and pancakes they thought weren't pancakes and twisted the knife further by them both being exactly the same thing. They have never recovered. As for swedes and turnips. Don't go there!

Yes. They was what we called 'scones' when I was a kid growing up in Scotland. The other kind of scones were some kind of alien English perversion. (Actually, I like both.)

No.

So far as I am aware, it has never been common. Monkeys aren't that common apart from in the south. The problem in China with these 'exotic' meats today has nothing to do with nutrition, survival or even taste. They are an exercise in conspicuous consumption. The supposed medical benefits aren't a priority. "Look how rich I am!" $1000+ (USD) for a bear paw. Very, very few people have ever eaten it (or wanted to). The practice is abhored by most Chinese and, as I've said, penalties are severe - including up to the death penalty.

It was a kind of pork belly stew with daikon, wood ear fungus etc. Very good.

What banquet? What list?

Yes. Ive seen that. Confused me for a bit!

Also illegal and similar punishment.

It is also strictly illegal in China and will get you not less than ten years accommodation in the local slammer.

Pineapple on pizza? Never! Pineapple in Chinese fried rice? Sure! A favourite among the Dai ethnic minority who live in Yunnan on the border with Myanmar/Burma. Another look at the rice?

Another for the Food Myths topic.

Those are Vietnamese rolls on the left. Chinese are different. Rice paper is rarely used in China. The only time I've seen it in a store, it was imported from Vietnam and the shopkeeper didn't know what it was.

The poster isn't only coronavirus related. It has been done several times over the years. No harm in repeating it!

15 cm tall by 20 cm wide. Capacity 5 litres. Yes, it's a spout.

and not Chinese. They seem more Vietnam-influenced to me. 'Minh' is Vietnamese.

Some do; some don't. So, I do all!

Fried hand-pulled noodles with pork, asparagus, scallions, coriander leaf. Soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, garlic, ginger, chilli, sesame oil.

Spring rolls (春卷 - chūn juǎn) are common* (but not with mustard); it's egg rolls which aren't known. The spring roll sales aren't catering for foreigners - many of my local restaurants have them, but I'm the only foreigner in the city and rarely eat them. *particularly right now as we are in the middle of the Spring Festival (Feb 12th-26th this year)

The two Chinese names I gave literally translate as "Sand Pots". I have heard of them being referred to as 'clay pots', but not in China. That said, they are made from a type of clay.

China imports rabbits from Europe!

In Britain, especially in the north of England faggots have long been a staple among the less well-off. The word originally mant a bundle of sticks, then expanded to be a bundle of pretty much anything. En route, it took in a kind of sausage or burger-like mix of pig's offal, wrapped in caul - the net of fat surrounding some internal organs - which was boiled or roasted for dinner. Now Facebook have had to apologise to a group of faggot lovers after declaring that their Facebook discussion violated their rules on propriety. They were threatened with closure of their chat group. The story is here. Their notoriously inept algorithm decided that the chat was some kind of homophobic slur. The use of the word to denote the dish has been around since the mid-19th century. Its use as a derogatory reference to homosexuality arose in the U.S. military in WW1. That meaning did not reach the UK until the 1960s and remains scarce. Facebook started in 2004.

I've had soup that tasted like that!

Externally, the diameter is 5½ inches and the height the same. Internally, the diameter is 4½ inches and the depth 4 inches.