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Yes. Considered more hygienic.

No. It's been normal in small noodle and fast food joints for years.

Lunch in a local noodle joint. 老友分 (lǎo yǒu fēn) or "Old Friend Noodles". A specialty of Nanning, this is rice noodles with tomato, pickled bamboo shoots, chili, fermented black beans, garlic, scallion, and of course pork. ¥8 or $1.13 (USD). Cell phone picture.

So do I but have no way to toast the baguettes since my toaster oven commited suicide. I'll buy a new one soon.

Just for once, I decided to listen to my dietician. Then totally ignore her. Fried breaded chicken and chips. Token asparagus for scenery. P.S. You don't seriously think I have a dietican, I hope!

I also went the canned sardine* route, but just put them on a baguette with lots of black pepper. * The last of the cans I smuggled into China last summer.

I often pull that face when only cookng for myself.

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Penne with a ragu of a 50-50 mix of beef and pork with fresh tomatoes, onions, chilli and a little Vietnamese fish sauce for unami. Finished with grated grana padano.

Just watched East Side Sushi, a 2014 movie about a Mexican woman in America who gets into Japanese food. It's light entertainment, but certainly full of food.

To be honest, the taste is minimal. A bit llike barley. They are mostly there for medicinal reasons. The crackers were rather nice, though.

Thai red curry shrimp. There was a side of greenery.

I'm sure doing this is against Chinese law, but ... I had some home made jiaozi so boiled them but then decided to pretend they were Italian, so served them with olive oil and black pepper. I hope no one finds out!

Lunchburger Home made, spicy porkburger, lettuce, white onion and tomato. Bun. Two were had.

Well, someone asked.

That is yogurt with the famous pink mould mentioned before.

Stir fried chicken with mixed wild mushrooms (oyster mushrooms , tea tree mushrooms , chanterelles, almond mushrooms , cèpes, cordycep militaris, morels and bamboo pith mushrooms), garlic, ginger, chillies, Shaoxing wine and soy sauce. Rice.

In Chinese: 毛豆 - máo dòu In Japanese: 枝豆 - eda mame with sea salt.

Yes. I too was saddened to hear of your recent loss.

This you DON'T want to eat.

Me too. Normal technique in China. Gets rid of most of the crud.

Pai gwat is the Cantonese. In Mandarin, the main language of both Taiwan and mainland China, 排骨 - pái gú - it just means ribs, not any particular preparation of such.. I missed out one step in my description of her process. First she brought the raw ribs from cold water to a boil, then discarded that water and started again.