Several people have told me that I look slimmer this semester. This comes as a nice surprise to me because I'm not trying to lose weight, and judging from all the delicious food I gobbled up in Thailand over the holiday, I expected my (sometimes painfully honest) students to say, "Ms. Kraft, you look like cow."
If I have indeed lost weight, I give full credit to Chinese food. Since being here I do not regularly eat pasta, cake, bread, milk, cheese or ice cream. These foods simply are available here, but they are aren't worth eating because they taste bad and are expensive. The Chinese don't do pasta. Or bread, or anything else I mentioned.
But don't let me fool you. This past Friday, I ate a burrito! Only instead of a tortilla, it was wrapped in a giant leaf of lettuce. Rita, my wonderful student, friend life-saver offered to cook lunch for us on Friday. We went to a hole in the wall market so Rita could buy 3 peppers, some thick greens, 2 bags of sauce and some green onion. We had potatoes and a bit of meat, that she used to cook, too.
She cut the potatoes extra thin, and then stir fried them in vinegar and salt water with the peppers and some small pieces of meat for flavor. In another bowl she mixed chopped green onions and peppers and some greens, and mixed in one of the bags of sauce. She gave me the bowl to stir the sauce into the greens with a pair of chopsticks. The sauce was salty and made of fermented black bean...I think.
We had the rice cooker going, as always. When everything was ready Rita,
- Spread a the giant green leaf on a plate.
- Spread the saucy onions and peppers on the leaf.
- Then, a scoop of rice.
- Then added the potatoes with peppers and meat.
- Finally added some spicy sauce on top of the potatoes, and carefully wrapped it up in her hands like a burrito and handed it to me!
It was a delicious and nutritious lunch!
Thank you Rita!
Happy hearts, happy bellies.
Ned and I napped for 2 hours (Nina too) after this delicious lunch.
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