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There was a place in my hometown with the same sign 50 years ago!

Carrot and coriander soup (made using a duck broth) with nicely charred, home made flat bread for dunking.

The number of farms is meaningless. How many birds do these farms raise? I still maintain ostrich as meat or eggs is virtually unheard of here.

Ok I see it now. 20,000 ostriches in a population of 1.4 billion people, billions more chickens, ducks and geese is what I call rare. Like I said. Not a lot of ostriches in China.

Damn! I was just about to say that! When I'm at my country house, my neighbour gives me her duck eggs. Unfortunately I don't get there so much these days.

Not a lot of ostriches in China

Everyone knows duck eggs are the best value. No?

Prawn Fried Rice.

It always stuns me in supermarket checkouts how many people seem totally surprised that they have to pay and then scramble around trying to remember where they put their cash or other payment methods. Here, 90% of payments are made by cellphone, but only 2% seem to know how their phones work!

There is a well known Chinese dish known as 手撕鸡 (shǒu sī jī) or 'hand torn chicken' and this isn't it. This is 手撕鸭 (shǒu sī yā) or 'hand torn duck', which I've never heard of, but strange times call for strange dinners. The half quacker was braised with shallots, garlic, chilli, star anise and tangerine peel for a long time, then served with rice and 湖南酸菜 (hú nán suān cài ) or "Hunan pickled vegetables". Attrition food, but tasty. I also garnered lots of fat and bones to be rendered or made into stock tomorrow.

I put pickled onions on pickled onions!

Very good olive oil.

It's 'butty' or 'buttie' and is very common in the UK, especially in north England. Originally it just meant bread and butter, but can be now be any sandwich. Jam butties are also popular.

I'd change the last part to "How to eat: Cut out the middleman and despatch to the compost heap directly."

I haven't had this for a while. Boiled chicken's eggs with griddled flatbread.

Best thing I read all week and it's only Tuesday!!

Red "greens" are usually perilla related, but I'm guessing.

Leftover spicy shrimp from last night's dinner in 窝窝头 (wō wō tóu) buns.

I've done something similar before. I'll do something similar again. A bed of orzo with mixed crab and flying fish roe. Topped with shrimp, obviously, garlic, ginger, shallots, Sichuan peppercorn chilli and coriander leaf.

I'll go with the shrimp, please.

Egg fried rice with 狮头菇 (shī tóu gū), 'lion head mushroom' or 猴头菇 (hóu tóu gū), 'monkey head mushroom', chicken, green chillies, garlic. Fridge clearance.

Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for one. Pork ribs with 郫县豆瓣酱 (Pí xiàn dòu bàn jiàng), garlic, ginger, Shaoxing wing, soy sauce, scallion and coriander leaf. Shanghai bok choy. Rice.

Fried fresh ramen with chicken, garlic, ginger, shallots, chillies, baby bok choy, scallions and soy sauce

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