- It's Year of the Dog, which means at least one motherfucker doing multi-culti outreach will inevitably wish me a cheery "Gung Hay Fat Choy!" this week. Thai New Year is in April, people. I may be half-Chinese, but this ain't my new year and it ain't your new year, so go blow that sunshine up someone else's ass.
And most Chinese people here speak Cantonese, so if you gotta butcher a phrase, it's "Sun nin fai lok!"UPDATE: Gung Hay Fat Choy is Cantonese after all, but it doesn't mean "Happy new year," it means "Be prosperous." You see how not Chinese I am? - Frank Bruni chronicles his tour as a waiter in what sounds like a wicked awesome place to watch the Bowl over a cold brewski, bra. Pobresito, now all the perfumes in Arabia could not sweeten that apricot lager mustard-stained hand.
- Dr. Michael Osterholm tells Oprah that chicken in this country is perfectly fine to eat, but you should enjoy your poultry today because NEXT WEEK WE ARE ALL DYING OF BIRD FLU. If you didn't get wrangle a prescription from your doctor before today's show, you're gonna have to throw down with meth-head soccer moms at Duane Reade to get your Tamiflu on.
- Iron Chef Morimoto-san is opening a ginormous eponymous $10 million outpost in the Meatpacking District, filling a gaping void in New York's dining scene for designer, behemoth, prohibitively expensive Japanese restaurants.
- Actually, French women DO get fat. Mireille says only 1% of her book was not true; the publisher made her leave a few words out of the original title of the book, Filthy Rich French Women Don't Get Fat. Goooooooooooooo class action suit!
Wait a sec... aren't both those phrases Cantonese? I speak Mandarin and I don't recognize any of them. Did you see that book, "japanese women don't get old or fat." ?? At first I thought it was a parody but it isn't. WHAT'S NEXT?!! gosh.
you're right. gung hay fat choy is "be prosperous". but i always hear "sun nin fai lok," which is "happy new year". google (and readers) teach me something new every day.
With that Maltese up there in your images, I thought you were going to give us a recipe involving dog meat. What a disappointment. I am never visiting this blog again.
secret family recipes are only available if you mail me an SASE and a check for $299.95.