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01/26/14
Chinese Food Log
Filed under: Food
Posted by: @ 8:51 am

Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, South Beach, Dr. Atkins, the Oprah
yo-yo. You have heard of these diets, but have you ever heard of the Trader Joe’s
vanilla bean ice cream diet?

I know. Not a very successful one.

It was my friend’s  idea and yes, it failed miserably, which is
why she’s on the “Ginger, Can You Keep A Food Log With Me-diet”? She is
documenting everything she puts in her pie hole and asked me to do the same.

It’s still day one and my eating habits are weirder than I
thought.

Take for instance my bootleg breakfast. I had half of
bagel topped with questionable SKIPPY peanut butter (the trademarked name written is
in the wrong font)  chased with glass of
the Chenglish brand of Orange Juice called Great
Lakes. Sorry, but  oranges are not from Michigan.

For lunch, I took advantage of Jeff being out of town and treated
myself to half a pod of durian. Durian resembles larva from an alien, hatched from a spike covered egg.  Many believe it tastes like it, too.

Along with the durian, I had a baozi. Boazi are round steamed
buns ranging in size from a golf l to a soft ball, filled with mushrooms, veggies,
meat, or sometimes, something sweet. I also nibbled on a mini custard pie and
sticky rice thingy.

For dinner, I made Ji Tong (chicken soup) with lotus root. Chickens
are sold with the appendages attached. Lotus–pronounced “O” in Chinese–  is this huge white root thing that resembles an edible sand dollar when you slice it open.  

I get my birds precooked, like these ducks.

I don’t like how this flock is all giving me the chicken
finger.

For desert, bought myself a little rice cake, not the dry
ones you choke down while dieting, but one special made for Chun Jie  or New Years. These cakes are steamed, not
baked, and as they cool, they deflate in size.

For snacks, I nibbled a few goodies that my teens turned me
onto. Pig face, (sweet porky jerky is fantastic), Then there is something called
cat food (spicy tofu sticks—something
similar in texture to old licorice but a spicy kick that could singe a few nose
hairs). Also, spiced chicken feet. You don’t eat them, you just gnaw on them.

This is the package of the katfood. I think hairballs are the
chief ingredient.

Anyway, it was all chased with a bit of Chinese white wine, which is
nothing more than rubbing alcohol in a fancier bottle.

So that’s the kind of stuff in my food log.

Have fun with that, Jenny.

 

One Response to “Chinese Food Log”

  1. Jane Broussard Says:
    January 26th, 2014 at 5:17 pm I think I now know why being overweight is not a problem in China.

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