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Q: Do vendors at wet markets ask you how you eat certain foods?
This seems to happen all the time.
I'm at the market buying random vegetables, and I get asked by people how I eat stuff. It's either said out of curiosity, to see if I eat them differently from they do, or it's because they never eat those specific products and so genuinely have no idea.
Radish, ketchup, etc.
No, but I was asked how I eat my oreos' before. I usually twist the top and bottom, then lick the white cream and then I dip it in my chocolate milk. I eat ketchup too and if they ask me how I eat that I will eat it with rice and with all the meats they have to give it that extra flavor.
Xpat.John:
Does anyone else have the overpowering desire to smack Mattie when he gives these kinds of answers?
HugAPanda:
Nooooo never.
Dear Cat with the beautiful tie,
Please make him stop. He is hurting our heads and burning our eyes.
Thank you very much.
DaBen:
Ketchup "with rice and all the meats they have." Are we talking a mountain of meat or is it a game of how many different animals can I fit into a bowl of rice and cover it with ketchup? Either way, really that's your go-to sauce for meat and rice? Just like mama, used to make it back in the Tar Heels huh?
mattaya:
Hahahahah.....you do too HappyExPat. WoW 90% of the time I wonder what the other 10% is. By the way I havent' tried the oreos in China are they any good?
adminanswer:
First answers will only be worth 2 points by the end of tomorrow, Valentine's and all...
Chinese people in general are extremely curious, and on top of it, do enjoy gossiping a lot. And those from the country side more than city dwellers.
At market place,most vendors are from country side, and since you,by being a foreigner, are different, they figure everything you do is different, and thus will bombard you with lots of questions so they can gossip with their piers later.
It is curiosity. If they could, they would probably ask you to cut yourself to see if your blood is the same color.
In the US, my butcher would always ask me how I planed on cooking the meat I purchased. One day I asked him why he was so curious and he said, "Two reasons. 1) Sometimes I find new recipies by asking. And 2) I want to make sure you won't massacre that nice piece of beef I just sold you." :)
Xpat.John:
Oh, this guy was awesome. I bought so much from this butcher, that I think I put one of his kids through college.
