Day 4

Coffee, a part of this complete breakfast

Breakfast:  Coffee eggplant tomatos peppers and eggs which would have been revolting except for the fact that it was all fried in rendered pork fat... ok now that does sound revolting.  I prefer calling it "bacon grease" ...is it just me or does that sound less nasty?  The family had pancakes... which should have been really tempting... but wasn't... my breakfast looked and tasted great.  Noticed this morning that my developing miniature double chin was gone... maybe it's on vacation, or maybe, just maybe it has run away and is never coming back... be gone chin!  I choose fit!

worth every moment peeling

Lunch:  Left over beef barley soup and left over triple salted pork and veggies... a pomegranate (so worth the elaborate peeling process), a papaya, some peanuts, and a cup of tea.


Dinner:  Tonight we are going out to our favorite restaurant in town.  The Red Dragon... which is so small that it can only hold four tables, the kitchen is a closet, there's no bathroom, but the food is really good, really fast and of course very affordable as the most expensive dishes are around $1.47   I am hoping to persuade them to bring me a vegetable soup of sorts without any noodles or rice... this is sure to cause confusion.  "Yo khaana bhaat nahalikana malai dinuhos na?" (this food, rice without putting to me give please) just might do the trick...

Red Dragon Special, three meats and veggies

I almost lost it today when... at 1:00 am I got up to do some work and watch a movie and an old habit kicked in.  A vision of a glass full of Oreos (recently bought out by Cadbury in this part of the world, no longer made by Nabisco, not that I'm paying close attention or anything) submerged in milk floated before my very eyes... but instead of making the vision become a reality, I just went to bed instead... as a wise man once said "sleeping man not eat delicious-but-utterly-useless-sandwich-cookies-stuffed-with-white-creamy-happiness."  some wise men are not skilled in brevity...