So a customer came in and...

02/28/2015

customer: Do you carry General Tsao Chicken sauce?

me: uh..... (have i ever seen one before? . .  .   .   . ...) ... i'm sorry, but, no.. we do not :(

customer: What? isn't that Chinese?

me: well... (1. we are not a Chinese store per say... but more importantly 2.) "General Tsao's chicken is not Chinese, but New York". 

customer: Huh? then where can u get it?

as it turns out.. Googling turned up, wait-for-it.. Walmart! (I guess the sauce must me made in China at least... :p)

And I proceeded to explain what i heard on NPR

i dont think any of my vendors carry it.. 

this was a weird one.. cant find a sauce to good ole #AmericanChineseCusine at an Asian grocery store :p

But what can you expect, when the said dish originated, not from China, but from NYC

oh, and found this during my search ;)

amazon link

Sheep by any other name.. 2015, the year of 羊

picture ripped from World in Canada site

새해 복 많이 받으세요~
Sae Hae Bok Mani Ba Deu Se Yo (ie, happy (Lunar) New Year!)

So this is the year of 羊..

pic from here

or is it? o.O??

Leave it to the BBC (will need flash player) to explain it to us :p

being Korean American and never even having to thought about what Chinese character 羊 (양 pronounced Yang or ya-a-ng in Korean). 
If you look up the Chinese character Yang 羊 in Korean dictionary, it reads: Yang, Yang. meaning the character Yang stands for Yang, which is sheep in Korean. 
But I've been made aware of the fact that in original Chinese, the character 羊 stands for a horned animal, ie: Sheep, Goat or a Ram..

leave it to Brits to figure out this very Chinese issue :p  


and of course, seemingly every media outlet (NBC, NPR, etc.. ) is jumping on this bandwagon and bringing out the weirdos, as showcased by NPR

"A female year tends to be much more sort of peaceful than say male," he says. "Male is aggressive, and female will be more calm."

really? o.O?? i'll pass on that :p

*random clip while I was looking at different links: well this male sheep featured in Animal Farm on SBS is pretty aggressive. (for those that don't understand Korean, bottom line: sexual frustration makes the said male sheep aggressive)



ANYWAY, at the end of the day: a Sheep by any other name...

delicious looking lamb skewers from this blog

will be just as TASTY!! 


whether it be the year of Sheep, GoaT, or a Ram, have a happy 2015!! ^^