Honest translations

[octave]

So my son is in China at the moment.

He sends me interesting pictures every day, but this one did make me laugh

 

[onetrack]

Did he get the "wild bacteria chicken soup, the "spiced flesh of a donkey", or the "hand tore the rabbit leg", too?

 

 

Edited yesterday at 07:50 AM by onetrack

[octave]

6 minutes ago, onetrack said:

Did he get the "wild bacteria chicken soup, the "spiced donkey flesh"

 He did actually have donkey meat for breakfast - true story

 

 

[octave]

mmm deleted- mysterious double post

 

 

Edited yesterday at 07:59 AM by octave

[red750]

What about this one?

 

[octave]

2 hours ago, octave said:

So my son is in China at the moment.

He sends me interesting pictures every day, but this one did make me laugh

 

Actually thinking about it and allowing for the nuances of translation, this does make sense. I believe that aged beef is a thing in our culture also beef with a lot of fat, such as wagyu. There is a little something lost in the translation, though.

[nomadpete]

Variety is the spice of life. Plus necessity is the mother of interesting menue.

[octave]

My son's partner is Chinese, although now a New Zealander.  We met her for the first time when they visited a couple of years ago.    We cooked a meal together. She taught us how to make traditional Chinese veges and this great spicy mashed potato and we showed her how to cook kangaroo correctly. Being her first time in Australia, she was keen to pet a kangaroo and eat one.

 

 

[onetrack]

I've eaten BBQ'ed wild goat and donkey sausages, that were knocked up by a bunch of truckies in Kalgoorlie, back in the mid-1980's. These blokes were keen feral animal hunters and butchers, and they made these sausages with chunks of meat about 6mm square, not minced meat. They weren't too bad at all.

 

That "spiced flesh of a donkey" looks a lot like sliced donkey tongue. My parents would cook and dish up beef tongue when I was young, and it was quite edible and tasty. We used to eat it cold with salad.

 

Edited yesterday at 08:46 AM by onetrack

[Marty_d]

2 hours ago, octave said:

...she was keen to pet a kangaroo and eat one.

Anyone tell her she shouldn't play with her food?