So I'm going to attempt to stop eating meat for Lent. Weird - first time celebrating Lent in a foreign country! See mom?! It'll be hard - but I'll try! It'll only be hard because everything in Shanghai is all about meat. Hehe...
So I celebrated my last couple of meals with meat! I've cooked a bok choy with ground beef, and tonight I made an attempt at lap chung with scrambled eggs, except I used a different tasting sausage that I got a while ago. So I used that up and now I will stick to a more vegetable and tofu based diet! Wooh! Operation Vegetarian in Shanghai begins now!
That also means I have to find a church - and it's tough because all the ones with an English service are all so far away! Yoohoo...taxi!...
Anyways - lots of homework, but I really wanted to post pictures. No real reason - just felt like it...
Go Slumdog Millionaire! While it may have been a shoo-in, I was holding my breath and keeping my fingers crossed, because I didn't want to be disappointed or have my hopes up too high. But YAY! Hence the change of my Facebook profile picture - of Dev Patel jumping on the shoulders of Madhur Mittal. It's such a gleeful, spontaneous moment, and Mittal's face is priceless. =D
Ooh - went to buy some baozi from this vendor around the corner of the apartments. I asked him, "You caide bao ma?" and he said yeah. So I said I wanted one, and also a "rou de bao" because all of us NYU kids can't read the characters, and we spread word about these 1 kuai baos by saying "Get the one with rou!" Of course, the man laughs at our Chinese. Whoopee! So when I said i wanted the rou baozi, he laughed at me too! And he asked me, in Chinese of course, "Is your father Chinese?"
Me: Yeah, but I'm an American born Chinese
Him: Oh, where are you studying now?
Me: I'm from NYU, but right now we're at ECNU.
Him: Oh...
Me: Thanks! Bye!
And I grabbed with me two SCRUMPTIOUSLY JUICY BAOS. By the way, the vegetable one is pretty good - with some choy, mushroom and tofu bits! So yummy - I prefer that to the meat (well, at least I'll have to for the next 40 days). But the meat one is good because it tastes sort of like a xiaolongbao (it's a little soupy inside) but with a bun exterior.
Ah - the only time I'll break my rule for Lent is if I am taken to xiaolongbao! Which I have yet to have eaten - very sorry guys. I can give up KFC (good chicken by the way), Korean food (I miss me some sulruntang! Back at Hanbat!), and whatever meat food they have here. But dumplings/xiaolongbao - NO! Must eat that once! And if the opportunity presents itself, I am totally eating it! And maybe Beijing-ya if we are taken to eat some in Beijing during our weekend excursion...maybe...
Oh I'm sad - I want to take cooking class, but I can't BECAUSE it just has to coincide with my internship hours. I hope erhu lessons won't interfere.
Busy day tomorrow, and hence, a busy night tonight! Enough "procrastination" for now...
On HBO right now: Dreamgirls (again)
Not a great movie - kind of glad it didn't really win that many awards, but Jennifer Hudson IS good.
So I'm sure you know by now, since you're in the land of the future (time difference and date), but Slumdog Millionaire won 8 oscars.
ReplyDeleteHaha I feel so silly now. I re-read your entry and realized you already knew. I was just so excited to write it on your wall I zoomed pass the entry.
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