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kmitchell

Is French graffiti as graphic as French film? If so, I'm soooo there.

1 year, 6 months ago

mordecai_macallister

If I had to eat one thing for the rest of my life, I think I might be willing to endure the inevitable death from nutritional failure for an endless supply of duck fat french fries with some sweet plum sauce for dipping. Although the lack of a complete diet would surely kill me before heart disease, it would be OK because that way I would not live long enough to tire of it. The sheer ecstasy I experience when I do manage to eat this fantastic treat would not fade and I would die satisfied, without regret, and happy.

1 year, 6 months ago

chocojing

chocolate.

is it better than sex? hmm... not sure, but your tastebuds tend to last longer than your sex drive in the grand scheme of things ;)

1 year, 6 months ago

sterrey

If I could only eat one thing, it would have to be banana pancakes drizzled with maple syrup. They have all the food groups (well a couple of them), I could adjust the quantity depending on how hungry I was, but I would always know that I'd be completely satisfied. Now that is an achievement!

1 year, 6 months ago

stylites

Yes well, for me it would be existentialism, obviously. A steady diet of Sartre with an occasional glass of Camus, should keep me plugging through the abyss. Perhaps best enjoyed on Saint Germain, this feast suits the mood of Beijing most days of the week as well. With this kind of nourishment, I could avoid starvation even without those occasional post-structuralist snacks.

1 year, 6 months ago

emanresu

~~I'm thinkin' if I had to eat one type of food for the rest of my life, it would be squid. In order to make this premise tenable, I figure I would probably have to be stuck on a desert island or something -- or maybe ordering my last meal on death row (I killed a man once, and am here in China evading the long arm of the law, but let's stick to the subject at hand, eh? =) ).

~~No matter what the rationalization of the premise, squid it is. I dissected it in biology class as a kid, and unlike the chicken project which later drove me vegetarian, or the formaldehyde-soaked worm which my lab partner and I ground up in the pencil sharpener (and then nearly hurled from the resulting release of formaldehyde-soaked-worm gas), taking this thing apart just made me appreciate its elegance and simplicity and total lack of wasted equipment. Everything in a squid has a function, from the mantle to the ink stem to the much-misunderstood "gladius". When we were done with the dissection, I kid you not, the teacher fed us a meal of the squid we had just pulled apart. And from that moment forward, I was hooked.

~~I have since gone on to eat squid in many forms. In the USA it is available from the chain-store Trader Joe's in pre-frozen squid-steak packs (perfect sandwich size, just fry this up with a bit of lemon while running the oven fan, slap it on alongside some lettuce and tomato on a toasted sesame-seed bun, season and/or add condiments, and you're there). On Phuquoc Island in Vietnam it is a local specialty, and for less than the price of a McDonalds-induced grease stroke, one can feast on squid for every meal of the day (Squid Benedict, anyone?)

~~In Ngapali Beach, Myanmar, the locals push the recent catch back and forth on hand-trucks to various restaurants up and down the strip. Occasionally you will find a youth sitting opposite a squid propped up on the beach, seranading it under the stars -- or maybe engaged in a philisophical dialectic about what makes us human and what makes them squid, and how we might all manage to make do with our lot in life.

~~So, yeah, that's my answer: squid. It's the food equivalent of water, there's nothing there that's not to like. Now if I could only find a steady source of the stuff here in Beijing, I might actually make good on my fantasy...

~~Squid in a red wine -based hotpot, squid with kim-chee, squid sashimi, I could go on and on. As it is, however, I had put off lunch to write this here essay, and I'd best get out the door and get some nutrition so as to live to dream another squid-deprived day.

1 year, 6 months ago