Western Girls
I am getting the distinct impression from talking with Ping and Cici the past couple of days that they are sold on living in America and have little interest in spending time in China except to visit from time to time. Both of them have experienced what it is like to return to China now, so they have compared notes. Our life in Houston seems awfully good to them by comparison, so more and more their long term plans are focused on living in America. This is quite a change from how they felt when they first came to America.
Ping approached me last week to check out a soy milk maker that she was thinking of ordering. I was satisfied that it is of good quality, and found it is sold at multiple places, including on Amazon. We didn't buy it there, though, because it turned out that Ping was part of a group of more than 20 Chinese ladies who had contacted the manufacturer and negotiated a significant discount on the purchase price if they all ordered one. We used the discount that Ping had been given and ordered the machine. I am not sure just what Ping has in mind for the machine, since we haven't been known to purchase soy milk, but she got a good deal on the machine.
Maybe Ping intends to make some of the fried bread that is served with bowls of soy milk at the Classic Kitchen Chinese restaurant in Chinatown where she and Cici like to eat. The bread comes in skinny links that are about a foot long. They dip it in their bowl of soy milk using chopsticks, which is a bit tricky to do because the bread will slip right out of the chopsticks and make a big splash in the bowl. I bet we will be doing this at home before long.
That dishwasher in the kitchen that others have said would never be used by the girls is used regularly by them. They seem to understand the benefits of washing chopsticks and other eating items in very hot water. I have also noticed that the windows and doors are staying closed this summer and the air conditioner keeps the house cool. I think it is partly in deference to the mosquitoes, and partly because of Ping's allergies. Or maybe it is just one more clue about the Westernization of these Eastern girls.
Ping approached me last week to check out a soy milk maker that she was thinking of ordering. I was satisfied that it is of good quality, and found it is sold at multiple places, including on Amazon. We didn't buy it there, though, because it turned out that Ping was part of a group of more than 20 Chinese ladies who had contacted the manufacturer and negotiated a significant discount on the purchase price if they all ordered one. We used the discount that Ping had been given and ordered the machine. I am not sure just what Ping has in mind for the machine, since we haven't been known to purchase soy milk, but she got a good deal on the machine.
Maybe Ping intends to make some of the fried bread that is served with bowls of soy milk at the Classic Kitchen Chinese restaurant in Chinatown where she and Cici like to eat. The bread comes in skinny links that are about a foot long. They dip it in their bowl of soy milk using chopsticks, which is a bit tricky to do because the bread will slip right out of the chopsticks and make a big splash in the bowl. I bet we will be doing this at home before long.
That dishwasher in the kitchen that others have said would never be used by the girls is used regularly by them. They seem to understand the benefits of washing chopsticks and other eating items in very hot water. I have also noticed that the windows and doors are staying closed this summer and the air conditioner keeps the house cool. I think it is partly in deference to the mosquitoes, and partly because of Ping's allergies. Or maybe it is just one more clue about the Westernization of these Eastern girls.
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