tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11953123.post112391459473100381..comments2024-03-28T04:13:49.335-07:00Comments on Daily Gluttony: Childhood Meme-oriesDaily Gluttonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185178140718692691noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11953123.post-1126205712596420962005-09-08T11:55:00.000-07:002005-09-08T11:55:00.000-07:00Mr. Cheeze,Man you always have alot to say. To cl...Mr. Cheeze,<BR/><BR/>Man you always have alot to say. To clarify, my grandma was from the Toisan province, but she knew how to make everything--kind of a jack of all trades she was, and my family IS Canto, so no I am not Thai, even though I LOVE PAD THAI. Get it?<BR/><BR/>And you don't speak Chinese...WTF? ha haDaily Gluttonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185178140718692691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11953123.post-1126125625836771742005-09-07T13:40:00.000-07:002005-09-07T13:40:00.000-07:00Alas, as with the RR on $40 a day, I don’t play ga...Alas, as with the RR on $40 a day, I don’t play games so well… hey I’m an adult now! Then again, I suppose I was never very good at being a ‘team player’ or bowing to peer pressure (which is why I liked Pam’s comment in DL’s Jennings tribute).<BR/><BR/>Umm, maybe I shouldn’t even post here…cause you know DL would be so jealous if she found out, which is why I waited until Sept ;). <BR/><BR/>From a recent DL entry that linked to this DL entry:<BR/><A HREF="http://thedeliciouslife.blogspot.com/2005/05/what-shame-shane-restaurant-and-bar.html" REL="nofollow">Shane rest</A><BR/>Sarah said: “There was a time when my <B>friend</B> and Stella were hanging out a lot. It made me very very jealous, because I am not ashamed to say it – I am a <I>jealous, possessive girl</I>. Well, his Stella-phase has long since ended, but my friend still continues to drink Stella and it reminds me of the other Stella. *grr*”<BR/>//////<BR/><BR/>I think she would interpret this ‘cross-pollination’ thingy in the wrong way as ‘cheating’… hell hath no fury, like that of a woman scorned?<BR/><BR/>I don’t really have 5 items I miss from childhood, probably because my semi-photographic like memory (though DL would say ‘semi-pr0n’ memory…takes one to know one, lol) did not start to develop until I was in high-school. So I have very few memories from earlier childhood, save for those few most intense ones, the ordinary just vanished :( . IIRC, my family did not go out to restaurants very much, but I do recall as a young child, liking the Uncle John’s Pancake house's chocolate chip pancakes with whip cream on top…yummy. That restaurant used to be on Wilshire, somewhere near where Royal Star is now. I particularly hated the taste of cream of wheat, whenever my mother made it for breakfast. I do recall that in middle-school (*cough* junior-high *cough*) I used to walk home from school and by a whole glass bottle of Orange Crush soda on hot days, and guzzle that down, along with *yuck* Cheetos! But I certainly grew out of that by high-school. No, there's pretty much nothing I miss from childhood.<BR/><BR/>Pam is lucky to have known her Grandma (but the dough she made, I guess your relatives are not from the Canton region, and she did not make Char Siu Bao then? ), my grandmother was born, raised, and died in Hawaii, I only saw her when she visited the mainland on one week vacations, and she died when I was in high-school; so I have little memories of her and she did not do any cooking while visiting, IIRC. As an adult I do eat many of the Chinese items my mother ate while growing up as a child in Hawaii that she has exposed me too (hmm, maybe I've forgotten those from my childhood), but also some of the Hawaiian items. Lop Chong Cantonese style sausage (Dynasty brand, now only at the Murukai mkt in Torrance; tastes better than most of the other brands they have in the Chinese neighborhoods) and bowl of rice where what poor people like my grandmother served to my mother many nights a week. My mother’s father died when she was 8, so my grandmother had two jobs, one as an elementary school teacher, and then as manager of the corner gas station when her husband died. No time to fix fancy dinner for children when you have two full-time jobs (they actually had to move into the large house of my Chinese great grandmother’s for a short time) and you are just barely making do.<BR/><BR/>But it seems Pam’s grandmother made some fusion dishes, that if Pam where born and raised in China she would not have had in China. Yeah, so even as a child Pam was already being ‘Americanized’, if not quite as much as her other Asian friend. No disrespect, I’m born and 100% American junkfood raised myself. BTW, I love water chestnuts, crunchy semi-sweet, in just about anything; dim sum items; stir fried with Chinese peas…anything! <BR/><BR/>It is more important what your tastes develop into as an adult, no matter what country you are from. Which is kind of why I get so irritated about all the misinformation being tossed about on CHLA, with regards to so-called traditional/authentic/cultural food rants. It depends on your point of reference; HK had been under British rule for over a century, and being a center of commerce for the whole world even prior to that, there would obviously be influences from many regions. Therefore, HK style dim sum service is, depending on what time period you consider, a changing <B>modernized</B>, fancier, more sophisticated? version of very old school simpler dim sum of the Canton region..<BR/><BR/>So what are Pam’s true Chinese roots then, where did her families originate from? My great grandparents emigrated from the Canton region to a small Chinese community in Hawaii during the 19th century. But they were not native Cantonese, supposedly being of the Hakka tribe of nomadic Chinese… though historians do not agree on where Hakka came from, they could have been native to southern China also. Unfortunately, when I got my name chop made (kind of like a automobile vanity plate…which is sort of a vulgar poorly chosen comparison, so sue me); there was no way for me to know how the ancient surname of Ing/Eng/Ng was spelled in Chinese characters as there could be any number of spellings depending on local dialects in use at the time they moved to Hawaii, and none of the more current relatives had any record of this :(.<BR/><BR/>I can however, post a comment on the Jennings entry, with respect to food/cancer…but it’s kind of depressing.<BR/><BR/>Interesting link on the <A HREF="http://www.asiawind.com/hakka/" REL="nofollow">Hakka</A>:<BR/><BR/><BR/>"<I>The characteristics of Hakka people is they all claim to be Chinese and there is no provincial difference to divide them. All those who are fortunate to still master the tongue would find a lot of "Tziga Ngin" (our own people) anywhere in China. Hakka dialect (language) is the thread that holds people together. There is now an annual international Hakka conference held in different countries. The last one held in Longyan, Fujian had the biggest participation in years with many from Taiwan, showing that political issues cannot stop the root finding of Hakka people. At this conference, there was a moving piece of news. A <B>Caucasian American adopted</B> by a Hakka family during the war also participated the conference. He, speaking in fluent Hakka, proudly declared himself a Hakka. <BR/><BR/>There are roughly 50 million to 75 million Hakkas all over the world. Hakka Chinese probably can claim the widest coverage by a single people<BR/><BR/>Different theories about origin of Hakka-</I> " <BR/><BR/>////////<BR/><BR/>I can’t speak any Chinese dialect, I’m American…but perhaps there lurks the inner soul of a ‘real’ Hakka; one of the 11 lost tribes of Israel ;-) ? Who knows, could have minute amounts of DNA from ‘royal bloods’ of the past, or that of a migrant ‘working girl’ lol. All I know is that from time to time, my mother reminds me of her uncle, that the parents sent back to southern China to get a university degree, but he just gambled, then got tuberculosis, came back to Hawaii, and generally amounted to no good before he died :P , so much for the Hakka tradition of hard work! And my mother reminds me that my demented/warped sense of humor at laughing at all manner miseries of news of the world, disasters, or the sad stories of despair they show on the LA18 Chinese and Korean dramas; reminds her of her uncle who she said I have <B><I>exactly</I></B> the same kind of ‘Beavous & Butthead’ “hehe, hehe” type of laugh (she doesn’t know what B&B is, just to give an ideal of kind of laugh) as he did. Oh man, that’s so cold, how could she say that of me… even if it’s true, hehe! Yes, the Chinese are very superstitious, it's a milleniums old tradition, but that is changing with the current, highly educated younger generation of today.<BR/><BR/>But see, what is important is that Pam has blossomed into a wicked, saucy, Thai goddess, lol. And if she likes ColdPlay (given her penchant for blogging you’d think Pam’s a big fan of their current hit <A HREF="http://www.lyricstop.com/albums/coldplay/talk.html" REL="nofollow">Talk</A>, which I always crank up to volume level 10 whenever I hear it on the radio while driving ),<BR/><BR/> and her ‘<B>inner mom</B>’ like <A HREF="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v103/udaman/JAandTVbabes/JA-maxim03sultry-245k.jpg" REL="nofollow">Jessica Alba</A> (I only have this pic for the bio text next to it, honestly), wishes to bake me some cookies…then. Pam, protests ‘but I have a fiancé! And my response, ‘so did Jessica Alba!’; and now she’s a potty mouth ‘year of de Alba’ superstar, who gets smashed with her experienced palate, on fine wines and dreams of owning her own vineyards…ah, to be so young and wealthy! <A HREF="http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_847" REL="nofollow">The Sinner</A><BR/><BR/>Now if I could only get DL off of her liver killing, gourmand liquor bar hopping tendencies; and turn her into a suave, sophisticated, advanced wine/food enthusiast :(LACheesemongerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11379342841391718870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11953123.post-1124124569898577962005-08-15T09:49:00.000-07:002005-08-15T09:49:00.000-07:00Tracinmarie,WOW! I never ever thought I'd meet so...Tracinmarie,<BR/><BR/>WOW! I never ever thought I'd meet someone who made their Cream of Wheat with broth!!! <BR/><BR/>Kris,<BR/><BR/>Aren't all of those frozen fried things wonderful??? And thanks for participating in this meme!<BR/><BR/>Elmo,<BR/><BR/>You'd better make sure you eat all your rice!!! It applies to guys too ya know...you don't want a pock faced wife!Daily Gluttonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185178140718692691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11953123.post-1124118997761785852005-08-15T08:16:00.000-07:002005-08-15T08:16:00.000-07:00Never knew the superstition about the rice and the...Never knew the superstition about the rice and the pock-marked face! Hilarious!elmomonsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14102068612919963395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11953123.post-1124094896038547872005-08-15T01:34:00.000-07:002005-08-15T01:34:00.000-07:00Pam:I loved Tater Tots!!! Mmmm!!! Those and the fr...Pam:<BR/>I loved Tater Tots!!! Mmmm!!! Those and the fries you could pop in the oven! Here are my top five memories of missed foods:<BR/><A HREF="http://bestofla.blogspot.com/2005/08/tag-im-it-my-childhood-meme-ories.html" REL="nofollow">http://bestofla.blogspot.com/2005/08/tag-im-it-my-childhood-meme-ories.html</A>BoLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08671056703980639639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11953123.post-1124082392392133812005-08-14T22:06:00.000-07:002005-08-14T22:06:00.000-07:00I am a child reared on Cream of Wheat also, and st...I am a child reared on Cream of Wheat also, and strangely enough, we always cooked ours with chicken broth too, but that's cause my dad is black and they made grits that way, so for him, anything mushy needed to taste like grits! Also, I looooooooove tater-tots! we rarely had them at school, but always had a stockpile of them at home!cinabinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17909143395336035269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11953123.post-1124031807153559512005-08-14T08:03:00.000-07:002005-08-14T08:03:00.000-07:00Hey Kirk,How about the man-tou AND tater tots? Pu...Hey Kirk,<BR/><BR/>How about the man-tou AND tater tots? Put some ketchup on it and you've got yourself sort of a tater tot sammich!!! ha haDaily Gluttonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185178140718692691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11953123.post-1123999184358215272005-08-13T22:59:00.000-07:002005-08-13T22:59:00.000-07:00Nice one Pam - I'm hungry, I've got frozen Man-tou...Nice one Pam - I'm hungry, I've got frozen Man-tou and tater tots in the freezer, hmmmm, which do I choose??? Love the cream of wheat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com