What is in your cup?

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Are no bodily parts safe?

Sounds like you're having a ball interacting with your students!

I am! I took one of the girls shopping for her dorm room stuff, and found it eye-opening looking at all the stuff for sale through her eyes. She bought necessary things (1 cup!) but not much more.

[Stitchawl]

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Good morning, everyone! It's later and later every day! I've already eaten a big breakfast, I'm working on the third mug of East India Company's "Royal Breakfast" tea, and getting ready to re-string my guitar for tonight's hootenanny! I've been working on a bunch of old Woody Guthrie songs for tonight. Great sing-along stuff!

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I had to smile the other morning when we took some of the Chinese students out for dim sum........ It was fun letting them take the lead on what we ate, although we passed on the chicken feet since I was the only American at the table willing to try it.

Are you eating jook for breakfast these days? (We have a couple of cups of "Cup-'o-Jook" (pork flavor and shrimp flavor) in the cupboard just for emergencies. My wife likes it a lot. Me, not so much. I like to chew.
Do you speak Mandarin well, or are you all talking together in English?


Stitchawl

[dreams]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Try Peet's Major Dickason's. For deep bold flavour, I think it's one of the best out there. (And you don't need a local Peet's, they do a thriving mail order business.)

In my cup: Peet's Phoenix Mountain Oolong.

We now have Peets in our grocery stores, but I do notice a difference in flavor when I buy it there or get some fresh from a visiting friend.

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I am! I took one of the girls shopping for her dorm room stuff, and found it eye-opening looking at all the stuff for sale through her eyes. She bought necessary things (1 cup!) but not much more.

Isn't it fun to experience everything we take for granted through other people's eyes? It always made me appreciate simple things more.

Sweet tea in my cup and I will have to get up to find some different coffee beans to grind.

[cromag]

Sipping on a Coke Zero that I picked up earlier this evening, while I was grocery shopping. There's a little caffeine, but not enough to disturb my sleep.


I'm having fun reading about "your girls," bjones6416. My daughter is minoring in Chinese, and will be spending next year interning in Shanghai. (I'm having enough trouble with her just being on the far side of the same time zone -- I am nowhere near ready for her to be in Shanghai!)

[Stitchawl]

Mid-afternoon Lapsang Souchong and watching the rain... now that I'm finally home and out of it!

Originally Posted by cromag

I'm having fun reading about "your girls," bjones6416. My daughter is minoring in Chinese, and will be spending next year interning in Shanghai. (I'm having enough trouble with her just being on the far side of the same time zone -- I am nowhere near ready for her to be in Shanghai!)

Don't worry, Cromag. Shanghai is basically like a huge New York City, only safer and you can't read the street signs.


Stitchawl

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Are you eating jook for breakfast these days? (We have a couple of cups of "Cup-'o-Jook" (pork flavor and shrimp flavor) in the cupboard just for emergencies. My wife likes it a lot. Me, not so much. I like to chew.
Do you speak Mandarin well, or are you all talking together in English?


Stitchawl

Oh, no, they are happy to help us learn to pronounce their names correctly, but they want to speak English well, and quickly. Ironically, most of them already do. (We had a moment in the restaurant when one of the girls was asking a question to one of the servers, and couldn't understand him because she speaks Mandarin and he spoke Cantonese. One of the other girls came to her rescue - she is from near HK and speaks both.)

I do need your help, though. One of them said sadly that at home she had "corn water" for breakfast everyday, but that it's too complicated for the dorm room. I googled but didn't really find what it is, I don't think. Any insights?

[ProfCrash]

Didn't Ahn once post a recipe for corn milk? Maybe that is what she meant?

Working on a White Pu Erh and some yogurt.

I have great memories of having some Japanese Students live with us one summer. It was a lot of fun getting to know them. It is great that you are there for these students Betty. I am sure it provides them with a measure of comfort at an exciting but chaotic time in their lives.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by cromag

Sipping on a Coke Zero that I picked up earlier this evening, while I was grocery shopping. There's a little caffeine, but not enough to disturb my sleep.

The Coke Zero takeover of the thread continues....

Coke Zero, of course, in my cup. Although I've had two glasses of water before this lunchtime treat.

[orlok]

Recently finished a Sausage & Egg McMuffin with Orange Juice. A rare treat that for some reason I felt I deserved (returning to work, perhaps?).

[VydorScope]

Faux Mocha in travel mug

[ProfCrash]

Water, heading out for my morning walk.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by dreams

We now have Peets in our grocery stores, but I do notice a difference in flavor when I buy it there or get some fresh from a visiting friend.

The stuff in grocery stores tends to be well older. I prefer to buy direct and then freeze the whole beans until ready to use. When you order online, you get beans that have been roasted that day. It really does make a difference!

Fresh squeezed orange juice and Peet's Anniversary Breakfast Blend.

[bjones6416]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Didn't Ahn once post a recipe for corn milk? Maybe that is what she meant?
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I was wondering that, too. I think I'll go back through her posts and look at it. That may be it because it seems like there was at least some skill in making it right because Anh liked for her sister to make it for her.

[cromag]

First tea of the day. Got the house to myself -- daughter's back at college, and my wife took our son to the (somewhat) local Six Flags for a day of roller coasters and fried food.

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The Coke Zero takeover of the thread continues....

Coke Zero, of course, in my cup. Although I've had two glasses of water before this lunchtime treat.

I do like Coke Zero better than Diet Coke. If Coke Zero isn't available, I look for diet Pepsi. (Odd. Spellcheck has no problem with "Coke" but doesn't like "Pepsi." It must think I'm talking about coal.)

[CRussel]

Lion Mountain Keemun with lunch -- a quick pasta with my own Guanciale and Pecorino Romano, and just a touch of good olive oil.