Henan food is actually quite mild, Hunan is the chilli province. Here it’s mostly stews or an assortment of dough stuffed with veggies and meat in an shapes and forms, from dumplings over pancakes to steamed buns. Allegedly the original baozi came from here, but I’m sure if you research it you’ll find a million origin stories for every province.
Right and I guess if you cite religious reasons, they leave you mostly alone. Alcohol wasn’t as straightforward since I have no reasons aside from health benefits, and then it’s the usual “but once a year won’t kill you” spiel (that I have to go through on every single occasion, even if they drop it ultimately and are happy to have a dedicated driver when the night moves on…).
How many times a year do you generally visit the hometown?
That sounds not up my alley compared to Sichuan food, haha! That’s interesting about baozi!
IDK your family, but the religious reasons is where they say oh monastics really eat meat… My PhD studies are Chinese Buddhism, I would know haha. The once a year this is annoying. You can always say you’re eating some medicine that you can’t drink. No crazy drinkers there?
Last week I went with an uncle and his friends and they drank an absurd amount. I probably had 5 plus standard drinks of baijiu. Too much… I don’t get the fun in too much.
If we are in Asia we always come but I haven’t been back since COVID so this year is a big one for us. What about you? I hope to come annually in the future.
Henan food is actually quite mild, Hunan is the chilli province. Here it’s mostly stews or an assortment of dough stuffed with veggies and meat in an shapes and forms, from dumplings over pancakes to steamed buns. Allegedly the original baozi came from here, but I’m sure if you research it you’ll find a million origin stories for every province.
Right and I guess if you cite religious reasons, they leave you mostly alone. Alcohol wasn’t as straightforward since I have no reasons aside from health benefits, and then it’s the usual “but once a year won’t kill you” spiel (that I have to go through on every single occasion, even if they drop it ultimately and are happy to have a dedicated driver when the night moves on…).
How many times a year do you generally visit the hometown?
That sounds not up my alley compared to Sichuan food, haha! That’s interesting about baozi!
IDK your family, but the religious reasons is where they say oh monastics really eat meat… My PhD studies are Chinese Buddhism, I would know haha. The once a year this is annoying. You can always say you’re eating some medicine that you can’t drink. No crazy drinkers there?
Last week I went with an uncle and his friends and they drank an absurd amount. I probably had 5 plus standard drinks of baijiu. Too much… I don’t get the fun in too much.
If we are in Asia we always come but I haven’t been back since COVID so this year is a big one for us. What about you? I hope to come annually in the future.