what we did today #2

Hang up Rivi's beautiful calligraphy.

what we did today #1

Hack apart Manda pig feet! With my new cleaver from the Chinese store downtown. While on the phone with Rivi. Then stew for five hours. Then eat with some very brave friends. YUM.

"She's very elegant."

Here, I demonstrate how I think people in Taiwan manage to eat the kind of things that seem incomprehensible to Americans: things like meat on the bone or other foods where a chewable part comes bound to a non-chewable part. You don't have a knife to do your dirty work, so you have to use your teeth and your suction powers. In this case, my object is crab in the shell.

However, Jennifer does not appear to feel that this is a completely faithful depiction of at least her eating style. "No. I'm very elegant." I obediently repeat after her when I'm done.

All in all, I'll take crab over elegance. But that is no surprise.