Comments on: Respect To The 中国人 http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/respect-to-the-%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e4%ba%ba/ I'm a dad, designer, China expat and blogger Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:41:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/respect-to-the-%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e4%ba%ba/#comment-25176 Ryan Sun, 11 May 2008 01:24:14 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog2/?p=194#comment-25176 Ha, I sympathize Daniel - I was a vegetarian for about 8 years not long before coming to China. Several times, much to my amazement, a scaled and gutted fish we bought at the market an hour or so before will continue to flop around our sink in its final neural firings. Kinda creepy to be honest. Ha, I sympathize Daniel – I was a vegetarian for about 8 years not long before coming to China.

Several times, much to my amazement, a scaled and gutted fish we bought at the market an hour or so before will continue to flop around our sink in its final neural firings. Kinda creepy to be honest.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/respect-to-the-%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e4%ba%ba/#comment-25175 Daniel Sat, 10 May 2008 17:58:43 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog2/?p=194#comment-25175 Today we went to the outdoor (cheap) market and my girlfriend bought a fish there. It's about as far from neatly packaged tuna as you can get. . the fish are flopping around in metal tubs of dirty water. . the fish regularily flop themselves out of the tubs and onto the pavement or into the adjacent tanks to meet fish of other species who face the same gloomy fate. Once she picks out a fish they pick it up and throw it down on the pavement to stun it.. then maybe wack it again with the side of their cleaver and then begin to scale and gut the poor thing. And to think I used to be vegetarian before moving to china!! Yeah I'm not crazy about eating fish. . for the same reason. I lack the a bility to seperat bones from meant. Sometimes it seems no worth the effort. Today we went to the outdoor (cheap) market and my girlfriend bought a fish there. It’s about as far from neatly packaged tuna as you can get. . the fish are flopping around in metal tubs of dirty water. . the fish regularily flop themselves out of the tubs and onto the pavement or into the adjacent tanks to meet fish of other species who face the same gloomy fate. Once she picks out a fish they pick it up and throw it down on the pavement to stun it.. then maybe wack it again with the side of their cleaver and then begin to scale and gut the poor thing. And to think I used to be vegetarian before moving to china!! Yeah I’m not crazy about eating fish. . for the same reason. I lack the a bility to seperat bones from meant. Sometimes it seems no worth the effort.

]]> By: The Humanaught http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/respect-to-the-%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e4%ba%ba/#comment-281 The Humanaught Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:52:00 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog2/?p=194#comment-281 Yeah, these were deep fried with some sort of batter. I really don't mind the taste. I'm not a person who hates that "fishy" taste... in fact, therein lies the deception of these little guys. I smell them and I really want to eat them...which always leads me to trying, and regretting trying, to eat them. It's like unpeeled shrimp... they're such a pain in the ass that largely they're just not worth the trouble of eating - yet I do everytime. It all boils down to the fact that I'm a very lazy eater. Yeah, these were deep fried with some sort of batter. I really don’t mind the taste. I’m not a person who hates that “fishy” taste… in fact, therein lies the deception of these little guys. I smell them and I really want to eat them…which always leads me to trying, and regretting trying, to eat them.

It’s like unpeeled shrimp… they’re such a pain in the ass that largely they’re just not worth the trouble of eating – yet I do everytime.

It all boils down to the fact that I’m a very lazy eater.

]]> By: Dezza http://www.ryan-mclaughlin.com/blog/farrago/respect-to-the-%e4%b8%ad%e5%9b%bd%e4%ba%ba/#comment-280 Dezza Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:27:00 +0000 http://www.thehumanaught.com/blog2/?p=194#comment-280 hey man..too bad you don't like those little fish. must be a blood thing, i rather liked them, i even ate them whole (bones and all) esp if they're deep fried...every tried that? just chomp down on the whole thing and eat it! although what i can't stand is how in some parts of china they eat carp with this little bones and that earty taste..yuck! hey man..too bad you don’t like those little fish. must be a blood thing, i rather liked them, i even ate them whole (bones and all) esp if they’re deep fried…every tried that? just chomp down on the whole thing and eat it!

although what i can’t stand is how in some parts of china they eat carp with this little bones and that earty taste..yuck!

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