Henan food is actually quite mild, Hunan is the chilli province. Here it’s mostly stews or an assortment of dough stuffed with veggies and meat in an shapes and forms, from dumplings over pancakes to steamed buns. Allegedly the original baozi came from here, but I’m sure if you research it you’ll find a million origin stories for every province.
Right and I guess if you cite religious reasons, they leave you mostly alone. Alcohol wasn’t as straightforward since I have no reasons aside from health benefits, and then it’s the usual “but once a year won’t kill you” spiel (that I have to go through on every single occasion, even if they drop it ultimately and are happy to have a dedicated driver when the night moves on…).
How many times a year do you generally visit the hometown?
That sounds not up my alley compared to Sichuan food, haha! That’s interesting about baozi!
IDK your family, but the religious reasons is where they say oh monastics really eat meat… My PhD studies are Chinese Buddhism, I would know haha. The once a year this is annoying. You can always say you’re eating some medicine that you can’t drink. No crazy drinkers there?
Last week I went with an uncle and his friends and they drank an absurd amount. I probably had 5 plus standard drinks of baijiu. Too much… I don’t get the fun in too much.
If we are in Asia we always come but I haven’t been back since COVID so this year is a big one for us. What about you? I hope to come annually in the future.
I guess there might be some monks that stray into haram territory, but yeah following the doctrine properly, they sure aren’t allowed to.
Love Sichuan food, though it fucks up my stomach regularly… And yeah we got crazy drinkers here as well, but if I say no then it’s a hard no and they understand I don’t budge, so that’s that. I can’t handle the taste of baijiu at all, had to drink years ago with some business partners, and ever since my first proper baijiu vomit session, I’m done and over with that stuff.
Opposite for me by the way, I’vebeen living in China all through covid since late 2017, and we only just left to Malaysia last August. So I’ve been in the village a bunch of times, though usually we’d celebrate CNY where the family actually lives, trips to the village are only for special occasions. In the future we’ll probably still come annually, but not necessarily for CNY when everybody is crazy, roads blocked and shit twice as expensive as regular.
My academic understanding is that in Japan since meiji nikujiki saitai rules were repealed this is 99.99% common but in China that has rarely been the case. But yeah, there are certainly monastics in it for the money like at Leshandafo.
Glad you love it too :) Yeah it sometimes hurts my stomach but I’ve relaxed on eating too spicy. That sounds horrible! My uncle had me drink too much the first few days as well and it also made me slow down.
Wow! That’s a long time. How was it living through COVID? Was being closer to Wuhan difficult? Are you all in Kuala Lumpur? We lived there back in 2018. Very fun but not that walkable. Sounds like you’ve had a lot of good family time!
Henan food is actually quite mild, Hunan is the chilli province. Here it’s mostly stews or an assortment of dough stuffed with veggies and meat in an shapes and forms, from dumplings over pancakes to steamed buns. Allegedly the original baozi came from here, but I’m sure if you research it you’ll find a million origin stories for every province.
Right and I guess if you cite religious reasons, they leave you mostly alone. Alcohol wasn’t as straightforward since I have no reasons aside from health benefits, and then it’s the usual “but once a year won’t kill you” spiel (that I have to go through on every single occasion, even if they drop it ultimately and are happy to have a dedicated driver when the night moves on…).
How many times a year do you generally visit the hometown?
That sounds not up my alley compared to Sichuan food, haha! That’s interesting about baozi!
IDK your family, but the religious reasons is where they say oh monastics really eat meat… My PhD studies are Chinese Buddhism, I would know haha. The once a year this is annoying. You can always say you’re eating some medicine that you can’t drink. No crazy drinkers there?
Last week I went with an uncle and his friends and they drank an absurd amount. I probably had 5 plus standard drinks of baijiu. Too much… I don’t get the fun in too much.
If we are in Asia we always come but I haven’t been back since COVID so this year is a big one for us. What about you? I hope to come annually in the future.
I guess there might be some monks that stray into haram territory, but yeah following the doctrine properly, they sure aren’t allowed to.
Love Sichuan food, though it fucks up my stomach regularly… And yeah we got crazy drinkers here as well, but if I say no then it’s a hard no and they understand I don’t budge, so that’s that. I can’t handle the taste of baijiu at all, had to drink years ago with some business partners, and ever since my first proper baijiu vomit session, I’m done and over with that stuff.
Opposite for me by the way, I’vebeen living in China all through covid since late 2017, and we only just left to Malaysia last August. So I’ve been in the village a bunch of times, though usually we’d celebrate CNY where the family actually lives, trips to the village are only for special occasions. In the future we’ll probably still come annually, but not necessarily for CNY when everybody is crazy, roads blocked and shit twice as expensive as regular.
My academic understanding is that in Japan since meiji nikujiki saitai rules were repealed this is 99.99% common but in China that has rarely been the case. But yeah, there are certainly monastics in it for the money like at Leshandafo.
Glad you love it too :) Yeah it sometimes hurts my stomach but I’ve relaxed on eating too spicy. That sounds horrible! My uncle had me drink too much the first few days as well and it also made me slow down.
Wow! That’s a long time. How was it living through COVID? Was being closer to Wuhan difficult? Are you all in Kuala Lumpur? We lived there back in 2018. Very fun but not that walkable. Sounds like you’ve had a lot of good family time!