As a Chinaman, I find many NCP’s curious as to what I eat. I have decided to start a series called “Stuff I Eat” that will unveil the foreign world of Chinese food to all NCPs. I don’t eat the most obscure of Chinese foods, but being from Hong Kong, I do eat my share of things.

To the fellow Chinaman, yea this is usual foods, but they don’t know what we know.

Steamed Beef Tripe

Damn, just looking at this makes hungry! yum yum yum. A very common order amongst Chinese people at a Dim Sum, this plate is often not touched or ignored by foreigners. They complain about texture, what the hell ? whats a little work for some good taste? I don’t know. This is basically beef tripe, with some ginger, maybe some green onion steamed. Its freaky good. Sure its part of a cows stomach and you might think its weird to eat that. Guess what? It’s not. The wikipedia entry for tripe indicates all kinds of people eat this food.

Only in America.

if you are a baseball fan, you must read this article. Its fascinating.

A-Rod

Arod is made out to be such a prick, and he sounds like a completely self-absorb ego maniac. Here are some quotes..no wonder no one likes him.

“Mussina doesn’t get hammered at all,” he said. “He’s making a boatload of money. Giambi’s making [$20.4 million], which is fine and dandy, but it seems those guys get a pass. When people write [bad things] about me, I don’t know if it’s [because] I’m good-looking, I’m biracial, I make the most money, I play on the most popular team….”

“Reggie hit .230 one year,” Rodriguez said. “That’s awful. He struck out 170-something times in a year. I don’t care who you are, extremes are just part of the game. I was awful [in Anaheim], but Jeter was 0 for 32 [in 2004], Mo blew three games in one week [last year]…. Everybody goes through it.”

“It’s not a big deal,” he said. “It’s only two games. Back in 1999 I was 5 for 81 [actually 6 for 62] and got an 0-and-2 fastball from Esteban Yan over my head and hit it out, and I was fine. This is nothing like that. It’s only two games.”

“I can’t help that I’m a bright person,” he said last month. “I know that’s not a great quote to give, but I can’t pretend to play dumb and stupid.”

“The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said. “He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world.”

Article Here

haha..great quote.

also, as a Steelers fan, always good to see Chad Johnson get cranked.

So I do play on a ball hockey team on mondays, we’re in a league and when you are in a league, you develop rivalries. One of the team that is our rivals happens to be much music’s new media division. Now when I say they are rivals, I mean, whenever we play them, its pretty intense. However, they never beat us so its not really a true rivalry. It is more of a big brother - little brother relationship. Our team is a pretty chilled team, we are probably a little lazier then we should be and dont really forecheck or anything. We pretty much rely on the talent of a few people to get our goals, probably because we have the best goalie in the league.

Anyways, this other team, they are INTENSE. If Mountain Dew made a commercial about ball hockey teams, they would probably fit the bill, they are all over the place, always hustling, even when our goalie has the ball they’ll pressure us. It’s all funky and stuff, but they never seem to beat us with this whole rushing everyone strategy, probably because we don’t really panic with the ball. Personally, I think..the quicker they run at me, the quicker i deke them out. But whatever, bottom line is..these guys are intense, and they really really really want to beat us and its pretty funny, since we don’t really care about them. It also happens that we do know a few members of their team

I just found this funny, their weekly email vs ours.

Our Email

Their Email

Pretty intense for a rec league.

We beat them 6-4.

Their captain, the one who sent the email, didn’t even have the courtesy to shake our hands.