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Pictorial: Salt and Pepper Shrimp

hzrt8w

By hzrt8w
in China: Cooking & Baking

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jo-mel

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大菌食細菌

Well, Alta vista and NJ Star both give me "Big fungus food germ/ bacterium", but I have a feeling that they are being polite.

Well... it is some silly "made up" terms by Hong Kongers. And we do it all the time! :laugh:

細菌 does mean bacteria. 大菌 - not quite big fungus... it just implies human being... meaning that we are giants compared to bacteria, so eating a small amount of bacteria is no big deal.

Just a self-comforting self-denial when we happen to eat something that is suspected unclean.

Something like "Well, we all have to eat a pound of dirt before we die"?? That's the one I grew up with.

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