"hot and sour soup"
dear god in heaven. that stuff is wrong.
i was presented with it in what has to be described as a somewhat sketchy chinese in toronto (i dunno, i thought it would be "urban"). it was a precursor to the main while we waited.

the "restaurant" should have put me off by the massive smell of fish due to the giant tank of dirty lobsters at the back. and also, on the door as you went in, a laminated sign saying "we have NOT failed a health inspection" or some such thing.

so we get these little bowls of orange goo. it is sticky like glue and has the consistency of too-thick gravy ceptwith this i-contain-horses-bones consistency. and its got chunks in. some strips and some chunks and some bits... they're all white-ish and soft. texture of tofu but with a more suspicious shape.

so i think, "c'mon, live a little" (not sure why i was giving myself a pep talk to eat this stuff but hey) and i try it. and its so wrong. i get one of those waves of nausea that starts just after, (am actually getting one now) where you know youre gonna heave and you think youre gonna hurl. and actually in my head i begin thinking that the little bowl wont be big enough to hold my vomit. and i begin looking around for where to boke as the wave gradually overcomes me.

luckily i only heaved. hurrah. :D

i dont know if this "hot and sour" soup is something they have everywhere but sweet god it's wrong.


p.s. kippers too. smell is like death.
(elegans, Thu 15 Jul 2004, 13:10, Reply)