IT'S KIND OF LIKE ROTTEN CHEESE

After my booster I enjoyed a pipe on a busy street corner, then went to get lunch at a place not favoured by tourists. For some reason, those broad minded European visitors shy away from something so alien as a Hong Kong chachanteng. Which is probably just as well. No Italian spaghetti, French fries, bratwurst, fondue, or frikandel. And certainly no surströmming, fried Mars bars, or Spam à la irlandaise. Not even baked beans or mushy peas!

Why, there's absolutely nothing to eat there!

The poor blighters would starve!


It was a very pleasant interlude. As you would expect. Bitter melon beef with garlicky black bean sauce over rice and hot HK milk tea without a word of English. The cheerful gerouche-mouche of folks enjoying their lunch, or querulous about the absence of po lo baau, ordering cups of yuenyeung, or requesting that bottle of silaachaa or jan gong heung chou (鎭江香醋) to add to their ngau naam min or ho fan.

These are the countries where as an American passport holder you are despised or in outright danger: Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guyana, Brunei, Burma, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, The Peoples Republic of China, Colombia, The Congo, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, French Guyana, Gabon, Georgia (Sakartvelo), Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, The Kingdom of the Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, The Republic of the Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Sweden, Syria, Tajikstan, Thailand, Tunis, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Yemen.

Note: especially avoid Dublin, Glasgow, and London.
Rabid swine with horrendous attitudes.
And repulsive hygiene.


Fortunately, almost all of them can come here and expose us to culture. We only know how to say that our hovercraft is full of eels in one language, usually, but they'll set us right!


我嘅隻氣墊船裝滿晒鱔!


Min luftfarkussensfartoig er fold med ålar.
Jullie rieken sterk naar rotte kaas.
Bunga bunga.



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