Hungry Planet Research-Urban China
The Dong's family lives in
a small hutong, which is similar to a compartment. They are looking forward to
moving to a spacious environment.
Dong Li (39) husband, works
for the Beijing municipal government.
Guo Yongmei (38) wife, bookkeeper
Dong Yan (13) child, only
child because of the one child policy
Zhang Liying (58)
grandmother
This is what a hutong in Beijing looks like.
This is Ito-Yokado, a Japanese supermarket that the Dong's family shop for groceries.
This is the pigskin jelly, a family recipe of the Dong's. It is a popular menu in China and the pigskin is boiled seasoned with garlic and Chinese cooking wine.
This is how starfish is sold on the streetside in Beijing. Teenagers of China eat deep fried starfish whole, not just the inside, but Mr. Dong says it's funny. He says that he would scoop the inside of the starfish and cook it with a fish.
It seems like the outside of it is not good at all, but I would like to try it.
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返信削除You are quite adventurous in being willing to try whole, deep-fried star fish. Although it doesn’t look like something that would be a favorite of children, the child in the photo certainly seems to be enjoying the starfish.
返信削除My mother and uncle would sometimes buy pig’s feed and use it to enrich the taste of pasta sauce. They used pig skin in the same way. The skin would be rolled up, tied with a string, and dipped into the pasta sauce as it boiled down, becoming more concentrated. It wouldn’t be eaten. When the pasta sauce was finished, it would be pulled out by the string and discarded. I guess this was a peasant custom that my grandparents brought to America from their native Sicily.