NO SALT FISH THERE

In Palo Alto this afternoon at the ceramic event, it was marginally too warm. At present, in San Francisco, it is marginally too cold. Why can't the weather be always 'just right'? This is northern California, which is supposed to have the best climate in the world! Then I look at the temperatures in London (eighty plus degrees), Hong Kong (hovering around ninety), and Karachi (over ninety). Reykjavik is around the mid fifties. Which is probably too hot by their standards. It's cooking the fermented seal blubber. Can't have that! Takes away that delightful waxy sliminess which makes it divine.


New York city is low eighties. No wonder they eat hot dogs.
Instead of waxy nice slimy fermented seal blubber.
Which they would, if it wasn't spoiled.
Hot dogs are a poor substiture.
It's suffering, is what.


On the metro from the trainstation back to Chinatown I listened in on two women talking about salt fish and pork. I would have interjected that fatty pork would be best for the dish they were discussing, except my Cantonese isn't good enough to fully convey what I want. Still, fatty pork. And slivered ginger on top. Perfect.

My apartment mate and I went down to the ACGA Clay & Glass Festival in Palo Alto, as we do every year. Bus, metro, train, bus. And back. Great fun. Some years it's boiling down there, well over eighty Fahrenheit, this time it was quite bearable, mid seventies.
Still probably too hot for the delightful fermented seal blubber.

On the other hand, steamed chunks of fatty pork with chopped salt fish and ginger would have been quite lovely, over rice with some lo fo tong on the side. And sambal.


Several suburban areas between SF and Palo Alto look like dreary industrial settlements. If you disembark there, watch out for werewolves. Vampires don't come out till after sundown. Werewolves operate under no such restriction.



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