No, actually this is just Chinese Wine.
Read about it here:
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My Next Snake Skin Wrap?
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you are a very brave man tate,my hats off to you.hope it cured your blood stasis and joints.LOL
you are a very brave man tate,my hats off to you.hope it cured your blood stasis and joints.LOL
skins said:
It's not so much that as it is the Chinese culture is built on ages old superstition and tradition. Luck and lucky charms and omens are a big part of everything there. These superstitions are regional. For example, in Beijing the number 4 is unlucky, so hotels don't have a 4th floor. The reason why is the Mandarin pronunciation for 4 is the same as the worth "die". However, in Shanghai, 4 is not unlucky, because the word is pronounced differently in Shaighaiese, another dialect. Some animals are lucky and some are cursed.
It's a whole different world, believe me. I wish it were lucky. The next day we flew on air China. My wife got food poisonig from the meal they served in-flight and spent a full day sicker than she's ever been.
Chris
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What did it taste like, I saw that you said it was gross but did it have a distinctive taste at all? I hoping sometime in the future I can vist China(crossing fingers). I started picking up Mandarin as a Third language, not easy at all. Sign Language was TONS easier.
Great Pics.
Those snakes look like Beauty Snakes (Elaphe taeniura taeniura).
Great Pics.
Those snakes look like Beauty Snakes (Elaphe taeniura taeniura).
SnakePool said:
It tasted like Sake and with a very strong alcohol aftertaste because it was a rice based wine. Wine from grapes is still not common in China. Wine, cheese, butter, and bread are not really part of the Chinese diet, but are getting a little more popular with the younger crowd. Since grape based wine is not popular, they don't really grow grapes in China.
I also had a local pomegranate wine and it's good. It tasted like a sweet aperitif wine, like Dubonnet, or grappa.
If you want to use your Chinese, I would focus on your Mandarin spoken language, common phrases and that sort of thing. Eventually, I think Chinese characters will be replaced with a version of the Roman alphabet, but some of the Mandarin sounds can't be made with our alphabet or pronunciations.
I agree that Chinese would be a tough language to learn because there are no common words with English and the spoken language is tonal in nature.
Chris
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Kinda tame compared to balut ( duck egg embryo ) in the Philippines. LOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut
I absolutely despise the Chinese culinary tradition of prizing highly exotic---and often highly endangered---animals as food, and traditional medicine. A lot of it is driven by aphrodisiatic impulses, and the rest is simply the coveting of something rare. Tiger bone powder, gall of cobra, shark's fin soup...it's utter nonsense.
-Roger (Chinese and not proud of this particular cultural trait...)
-Roger (Chinese and not proud of this particular cultural trait...)
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buddha162 said:
Roger,
Good news coming - the younger generation of Chinese are a different breed. They are smart, well educated people with many opportunities. They are high tech and ready for action. While there is still a great deal of poverty and illiteracy in China, the change is coming and there is a lot of hope.
The Chinese culture is amazing. I don't know if you've been there yet, but we were awed by what we heard from our young, college educated guides. Once we got to know them, they pulled no punches and were frighteningly candid about their lives.
For example, we had a really lovely 24 year old guide, a college grad, who stayed with us the whole time. We invited her to all our meals and she became like part of our family for a few days. One night, we went back to the hotel. She asked my daughter if she played any musical instruments. She went on to tell us she used to play the piano, but her parents had to sell it when she was 9 years old. They sold it to pay for a cancer operation for her father's best friend who was suffering. It was clear she loved and respected her parents so much for doing that. Survival is a big deal in China. She told us many stories of her life, good and bad, that were pretty much jaw dropping. She was a beautiful person in every way.
Here's a pic of her.
Ps. In case anyone wants to know why I'm posting these photos here instead of NPR, my software is only aloowing me to post links in the NPR section, plus all my buddies hang out here.
Chris
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Looks as if someones stole the emporers (sp) poolstick right out of his hand in this photo.TATE said:Roger,
Good news coming - the younger generation of Chinese are a different breed. They are smart, well educated people with many opportunities. They are high tech and ready for action. While there is still a great deal of poverty and illiteracy in China, the change is coming and there is a lot of hope.
The Chinese culture is amazing. I don't know if you've been there yet, but we were awed by what we heard from our young, college educated guides. Once we got to know them, they pulled no punches and were frighteningly candid about their lives.
For example, we had a really lovely 24 year old guide, a college grad, who stayed with us the whole time. We invited her to all our meals and she became like part of our family for a few days. One night, we went back to the hotel. She asked my daughter if she played any musical instruments. She went on to tell us she used to play the piano, but her parents had to sell it when she was 9 years old. They sold it to pay for a cancer operation for her father's best friend who was suffering. It was clear she loved and respected her parents so much for doing that. Survival is a big deal in China. She told us many stories of her life, good and bad, that were pretty much jaw dropping. She was a beautiful person in every way.
Here's a pic of her.
Ps. In case anyone wants to know why I'm posting these photos here instead of NPR, my software is only aloowing me to post links in the NPR section, plus all my buddies hang out here.
Chris
Kevin Lindstrom said:
Kevin,
Good call - maybe Bruin can photoshop one in. This is actually a General in the army. The Emporer has a much larger belly. A big belly was the sign of richness and power in ancient China.
By the way, these ancient Chinese soldiers were large people. My wife is 6' tall. The warriors were all pretty good size - about 6', maybe 200 pounds or more. Those were gigantic people in those days. The emporers army was copied life sized in terracotta. Because they were hand selected from a much larger army, the generals selected the largest soldiers for the Emporer's army.
Chris
Some of those soldiers were buried when they built that new dam.TATE said:
Sad.
TATE said:
I've been to China numerous times, from Beijing to Shanghai to Szechuan...up and down the Yangtse (pre-dam), everywhere a good tourist goes, lol. I agree that the younger generation provides much hope for eradicating this kind of folkish custom, but remember how deep China's culinary tradition runs...it's a cuisine completely codified and rigid. As a Chinese person I love Chinese food, but as a chef I hate cooking it for this very reason.
There is still no middle class to speak of outside the major cities. A huge problem China needs to face is their horrendous "houkou" system, that basically relegates an entire rural population to migrant worker status. The opportunities granted a person with a large city houkou vs. a rural houkou is vastly different. The focus, esp since China's industrialization, has been on port cities, factory workers and their families, etc...the peasants---the backbone of Maoist revolution---were left far behind.
-Roger
PS. if your guide's family owned a piano in the first place, they were probably considered very well off at the time.
No No not for me....
There was a lady at work that drank that Mushroom tea while being pregnant for 8 months. Sound and looks pretty dangerous to me….
No snake skin wine/tea for me…… They say SunTea is a no no these days.
I am just going to play it safe. I am sticking to my JTS Brown.
Just going to need to find some more mash once the case is gone
Bugs
There was a lady at work that drank that Mushroom tea while being pregnant for 8 months. Sound and looks pretty dangerous to me….
No snake skin wine/tea for me…… They say SunTea is a no no these days.
I am just going to play it safe. I am sticking to my JTS Brown.
Just going to need to find some more mash once the case is gone
Bugs
