On 6/22/2022 at 6:17 AM, Shelby said:As an aside, the jazz band (???) pictured outside the restaurant invokes more of a cajun food type place for me......
Yes. I've never worked out what that's about.
They do have a thing about saxophones here, though. Santa Claus is regularly shown playing one and they actually think Kenny G is a musician!
One of my first batch of students in China came with a couple of her friends to see me - bearing peanuts to munch on during the visit. She ate most of them herself and I renamed her Peanut, to everyone's delight. She is still called Peanut 25 years later and proudly uses the name on Chinese social media. Lovely lady.
She did shock me during that visit. One of them asked me what my hobbies were and I turned the question back to them. Peanut said "I love sex!".
I spat out my mouthful of beer. This very demure,virginal Chinese girl said that? That contradicted everything I'd been told about young Chinese women.
Turned out she had accidentally mispronounced "sax". Yeah! Being a Kenny G fan was her only sin!