Comments on: The Silk Road’s Green Pearl http://www.iskandals.com/eats/?p=280 ISKA's edible experiments Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:25:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: iska http://www.iskandals.com/eats/?p=280&cpage=1#comment-573 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:04:21 +0000 http://www.iskandals.com/eats/?p=280#comment-573 hi psymeg! thanks for visiting my site. actually ive never been to xinjiang but our friend and enterpreter is from that part of the world. she brings us some goodies from urumqi from time to time. goodies include those above!

]]> By: psymeg http://www.iskandals.com/eats/?p=280&cpage=1#comment-534 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:43:00 +0000 http://www.iskandals.com/eats/?p=280#comment-534 Reminds me of when we were in Kuqa. We stopped in to a little banmen shop to get some dinner. They were very friendly and a guy approached us for an english lesson. So we went through basic English greetings and the like with him. After about half an hour he pointed to one of those deliciously fake 1970s posters showing delightful air-brushed food so popular in restaurants in Xinjiang. Being vegetarian the only thing on the poster we could eat were the grapes. So I said I like the grapes.

I didn’t realise he meant the question as a way to decide what to buy us as a present for teaching him. His brother was dispatched and came back with a bunch of grapes for us. Being mid-winter they wore frozen, and I guess something of a scarcity.

His kind gesture is one of our great memories of the kind hospitality in Xinjiang.

]]> By: ISKAndals.com » Blog Archive » Lasang Pinoy 14: Embutido http://www.iskandals.com/eats/?p=280&cpage=1#comment-532 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:07:22 +0000 http://www.iskandals.com/eats/?p=280#comment-532 […] China’s Green Raisins […]

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