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Yes we do, but no one has used it for 15 years.

Valquejigoso V2 2008 A gift from a dear friend who carried it all the way from the vineyard to China for me!

Costco must be pretty naïve then. The same thing happens everytime something foreign and exotic happens here. I'm sure they knew exactly what was going to go down.

Hardly surprising after your saline deprived recent involuntary trip away from home. Last time I fell into the quacks' hands, they put me on an unnecessary saline drip, while failing to salt anything edible. My requests for intravenous Guinness and seasoned food fell on deaf ears!

Thanks. You'd have to add a hell of a lot of vinegar to make the crust damp though, surely. I often use amchur (dried green mango) to dishes for a sour note.

Maybe I'm missing something, but what is the advantage of "dried vinegar" over a spash of the wet stuff?

The many lunatics who believe in cyronics.

Sure you can. I do it all the time.

Flat. It's how I was taught and I've never really questioned it or felt the need to do so.

I did.

Metric is standard. Only Myanmar/Burma, Liberia, and the US think otherwise.

Well just from my pantry onion seeds, celery seeds, lovage seeds. I'm sure there are more, but I'm at the other end of the day and sleepy.

Ah! You are assuming most English speakers around the world speak American English. Sorry, but that ain't so. Not even nearly! There are more English speakers in China than in the USA and the majority speak British English. It's what the national curriculum teaches . Take in India .... Russia.... I could go on, but we are off-topic. I deliberately said America rather than the USA.

Most. Is there any herb that you give different names to the seeds and leaves? Genuine question. My sarcasm mode has been temporarily disabled after sending @CantCookStillTryon a wild goose chase.

No! Plain English. I do love spicy soups

Only in that America. In the rest of the English speaking world, they are both coriander. Leaf or seeds. I love both.

In that case, everything is Chinese!

I wondered the same when I first came to China and saw these "HOT"signs. First time I recall was on a menu, so I assumed "spicy"", but sadly it just means popular, which they rightfully are. Wonderful fruit!

Nothing really. It's just scrambled eggs with tomatoes, but this is the one dish every Chinese person learns to cook - often the last. I posted some recipes from Chinese teenagers a few years back. 90% of students who submitted recipes chose that dish! I included one recipe. It's seldom on menus, but there isn't a restaurant in the land which can't make it on request. It keeps visiting vegetarians alive. One veggie friend who lived here for three years swore never to eat it again in her life! She'd had it every day for 1,096 days! Not usually a breakfast dish, though. But why not?

One street vendor had these nice looking figs this noon, but a little over priced. I'll catch up with her later and the price will have dropped, I'm sure. I made do with some mangosteens from a fruit store.

I do love a spicy soup.

Very Chinese!

The tastiest of the "rats" isn't a rat, as such. That is the so-called bamboo rat. The local species, the Chinese bamboo rat, Rhizomys sinensis, as its Chinese* and English names suggest, lives in the bamboo groves and it lives on bamboo almost exclusively. It can grow up to 8½-15 inches long (plus tail) and is rather stout. *竹鼠 (zhú shǔ, literally 'bamboo rat') Rhizomys sinensis - Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology - Public Domain Image

I've most definitely had fresh corn. I live in the middle of one of the largest corn producing areas in the world. If I look out my kitchen window in my second home in the countryside, all I can see is miles of corn. I should really move. What I never see is frozen or canned corn (or anything else). BTW, I love cilantro, but I call it coriander.

Probably. I've had them often, both here in China and in Vietnam. Tasty. In general, vegetarians do taste better. Except fish. Carniverous fish taste fine. Anyone know why?