We've never been big on chinese food in the household- Not proper Cantonese dumplings, but I mean the Chow Mein etc that passes for Chinese food in most Western countries. Mainly because my daughter has a nasty peanut allergy, and often peanut oil is used to stir-fry the veg.
So why, when I made a chickenish dish this afternoon, did I catch her eating with chop sticks? And not fumbling, eating like a sage? Perfect grip! I can't eat with chopsticks like that!
I was very impressed, until later.
We'd finished the main course, and were on to dessert- store-bought icecreams, and I found myself choking up over the words 'Hannah! You can't eat icecream with chopsticks!' But she could. And she did. I can't even play chopsticks on the piano.
How the heck does a child learn spontaneous chopstick grip? Surely she could be bestowed a more useful gift, like unravelling mysteries of physics?
I could try and pimp her to a chinese advertising agency, make her weight in yuan.
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Wow. I'm very impressed! Such skills!
ReplyDelete@Beck: Aaaah- but how much would you, in theory, pay to see such skills?
ReplyDeleteI know this isn't a food blog but your post is making me hungry for one of my new favorites (and it's bed-time here.) Scrambled eggs with mirin. Sweet, salty and eggy.
ReplyDelete@MDL: 'Sweet, salty and eggy'? Sounds like the members of a scandinavian boy band.
ReplyDeleteMaybe she HAS unraveled the mysteries of physics, but just hasn't told you. I'd examine her room for top quarks.
ReplyDelete@Briane P: Quite possible- she may have needed something relaxing to do while solving the Rehmann hypothesis.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is also v. good with chopsticks - but we also eat wonderful Chinese take-out a few times a month so...
ReplyDeleteSo she's channelling your daughter? The connection must be stronger than initially suspected.
ReplyDeleteI despise westernized Asian cuisine and I couldn't use chopsticks if my life depended on it lol, thankfully we have a few authentic Asian restaurants in my city and the lovely proprietors take pity on my uselessness and always manage to dig up a fork for me...
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