Saturday, November 15, 2008

Did You Know That Instead of Saying Cheese for Photos, the Chinese say Eggplant?

As per the Title, the word for eggplant in Chinese sounds similar to the word for Cheese in English...so when we all take photos we say "qie" (trust me...it sounds like cheese...)

At Cooking Club several weeks ago we make eggplant and a corn/pepper dish. Cooking Club is basically us watching the Laoshi's cook. The left hand video is of Zhong Laoshi (carry-in-your-handbag-laoshi) cutting eggplant. The right hand video is Lenore cutting eggplant. Zhong Laoshi is older, and therefore has more eggplant cutting experience...let's chalk it up to that.




The corn and pepper dish tasted like corn and green peppers...No surprise there...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why did you rotate the second video 90 degrees?

Otherwise, a wonderful post.

Love,

Daddy

Anonymous said...

I'm just going to say eggplant from now on. I'll look all serious, like those people from the early posed B&W photo days.