"Icono Clast" wrote in message
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> OurTravelGuy wrote:
>> Carry a chocolate bar or something; this will keep you going until
>> some food that you can recognize turns up.
>
> What a stupid thing to say! Why leave home to eat recognizable food? Where
> I've been where I couldn't communicate, I'd ask to go to the kitchen and
> pointed at what I thought wanted. I ALWAYS chose something strange and
> unfamiliar. 90% of the time the food was quite familiar but the
> preparation was not. Ten percent of the time? I dunno what I've eaten.
but you obviously do not understand the subtlety of the original
post. This being the rec.travel.usa-canada rather than the
rec.travel.china or the rec.travel.eastasia or even the rec.travel.asia
newsgroup, the original poster clearly and most decidely wanted to address
in a single post in the abstract all those places in the USA and in Canada
that reminds him/her most of aforesaid places in China. From that singular
statement, one can readily infer that this person is originally from China,
has moved fairly recently to either the USA or Canada within the past 10 to
15 years or so, and is very homesick and lonely for his/her home country
such that he/she in a rather rare and superbly remarkable attempt to relieve
his/her homesickness and loneliness in a most charitable effort on his/her
part has taken the time to - in an abstract way, mind you - post most
commendably in a very admirable fashion to share with each and every one of
us an extremely general abstract description of what we all can expect when
we do indeed visit those parts of the USA or Canada which reminds him/her
most of his/her home country of the Republic of China, if only because the
astute reader will note that in the original post not a single - not one -
mention is made of places/customs/expectations in the nearby
country/province of Taiwan. That the places mentioned are those in China
and not in the USA or in Canada - notwithstanding that is the
rec.travel.usa-canada newsgroup - is a dead giveaway that this inference is
indeed true, there being a rather large number of places in the USA and in
Canada that have cuisine and customs much like in those named places in
China, especially for westerners like the good people of the USA and Canada.
It is a most clever and very shrewd approach to address in a very abstract
manner en toto all such places in the USA and in Canada all at one and the
same time. Now all that remains is a followup post associating which
place(s) in the USA or in Canada he/she associates most closely to each and
every one of those places named in China so that we too will be aware of
this association when we do indeed visit these to-be-named places in the USA
or in Canada which are associated by this person with those specific places
in China that he/she named in this original post. I can hardly wait for
this grand relevation, there being several places where I live which are
commonly associated recently or otherwise to the Chinese culture, its
cuisine, and its people such that I too can revel without leaving home in
the Chinese cuisine, customs, and culture as depicted in that original post.
This conclusion is further substantiated, by the way, by the many people you
see in the USA and in Canada carrying and drinking from those plastic
bottles of water...clearly these folks are preparing - the water in the USA
and in Canada from the municipal taps being generally accepted to be safe to
drink - for visits to those very parts in the USA and in Canada soon to be
revealed by the original poster to be associated to the named places in
China in the original post.
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