Happy Thanksgiving
December 13, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving from the American, the Korean American, the Thai Swiss, the Swiss German, and the Taiwanese American (photographer).
For American Thanksgiving, I took the initiative of organizing a peking duck dinner with some friends. There were plenty of places in Shanghai to get a traditional American dinner, but honestly, is there anything more BORING than a traditional American dinner in Shanghai? After all, a duck is still a bird, albeit a much more delicious bird than a turkey. There were no sweet potatoes, but who needs sweet potatoes when you have egg yolk battered taro? And we may not have had pumpkin pie, but we did have pumpkin filled mochi. In addition to these two delicious dishes, we also ate a stewed pork dish, some steamed dumplings, black pepper beef, and garlic broccoli. The food was tastier than any American Thanksgiving meal I’ve ever had. We were the only people in the restaurant who were celebrating. It was a little like that scene in A Christmas Story when the Parker family goes to a Chinese restaurant (here just referred to as a restaurant) for Christmas dinner, only in reverse. And not at Christmas.
