{"id":6746,"date":"2010-05-08T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/05\/dietaryculturalamerican-food-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2010-05-08T00:04:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T07:04:29","slug":"dietaryculturalamerican-food-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/05\/dietaryculturalamerican-food-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"dietary\/cultural\/American food restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpmuseum.org\/china\/trip3\/dishes.htm\" >The Food<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"clear: both\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2010\/05\/img_0479.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-6746];player=img;\"  class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-to-original\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2010\/05\/img_0479-thumb1.jpg\" height=\"199\" align=\"left\" width=\"200\" style=\" display: inline; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;\" \/><\/a>Maggie asked me about any dietary\/cultural\/American food restrictions that I might have. I told her that there were none at all and I would like to try all kinds of Chinese food. Maggie took this as a challenge! The picture below is one of our first meals. Starting from the 1:00 position and working clockwise: A salad &#8211; not that much different than an American salad. Then at 4:00 there&#8217;s Choudoufu. This translates as &#8220;Stinky Tofu&#8221; but I think a better name would be &#8220;cowpie surprise&#8221;. Basically it looks and smells like something you could find in a cattle field and it tastes just like it smells. In between the choudoufu and the salad is a dish of hot pepper that you can dip the Choudoufu in to take the edge off. At the 6:00 position is pig lung in hot oil. In the 8:00 position is the internal organs of sparrows. This has a relatively normal kind of taste but with strange shapes and textures. In the 10:00 position is something Maggie described only as &#8220;beef&#8221;. I had some and said that this and the salad are the only things on the table that most Americans eat. Then I ate one of the vegetables with the beef and made a face and Maggie smiled. The Chinese name for the vegetable translates as &#8220;Bitter Vegetable&#8221;. Later we found that the American name is Balsam. I told Maggie that as far as I know, Americans only use Balsam in shampoo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpmuseum.org\/china\/trip3\/dishes.htm\" >The Food<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food Maggie asked me about any dietary\/cultural\/American food restrictions that I might have. I told her that there were none at all and I would like to try all kinds of Chinese food. Maggie took this as a challenge! The picture below is one of our first meals. Starting from the 1:00 position and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2010\/05\/dietaryculturalamerican-food-restrictions\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">dietary\/cultural\/American food restrictions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1KO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6748,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}