Among the many advantages to living overseas are the near constant opportunities to meet interesting people and make new friends. I study Chinese every morning at a local school called HuaYuan 花园。 Two of my classmates are from Korea and they’re so cute you just wanna wrap ’em up and take ’em home. (He’s a quick to laugh college professor and she’s a bungee jumping housewife.) They invited me and my Portuguese friend and classmate to their temporary home here in Beijing for some authentic Korean food. I bought some flowers that were given to my Korean classmate’s mother who is around 85 I think. Elder Mama is seated at the center, by Asian standards.
Then there was the food. I think some of the names (in pinyin) were Pao Cai Tang, hei dou, Hanguo kaorou, ga doo ji. Anyway they were all interesting but I got gas from eating too much of some kind of orange colored spicy root vegetable. Some of the most colorful food I’ve ever eaten. It was great.
Myself
25 Feb 2023