Where there's rice and soy sauce, there's a way

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After the lecture back to home is already 20:03.

Of course, not directly after the lecture back to home but first to visit the newly opened Asia store on main street. But I just bought a small bag of Japanese Udon, cause I didn’t bring a backpack but just a handbag for laptop and iPad.

With my mouth and tongue (without any linguistic meaning) and their Chinese background same as any other parts of my body and soul, the ordinary food in Germany obviously can’t fully satisfy me easily, even though some of them are actually quite good.

What do I need basically? As food I mean.

  • Rice, with very good quality and good place of production, ranked in order:
    • Rice from the Northeast of China
    • Rice from the South of China
    • Basmati Rice from India
    • Rice from other countries
  • Soy Sauce, with good place of production, and good material, ranked in order:
    • Haitian Soy Sauce from Foshan
    • Amoy Soy Sauce from Xiamen
    • Lee Kum Kee Soy Sauce from Zhuhai
    • Any other Soy Sauce

And basically, that’s all specific things I need to make a typical Chinese meal with staple food (rice of course) and dishes. Any other ingredients such as meat, vegetables and common spices can be found anywhere in the world nowadays.

So let’s back to the title of this post - “Where there’s rice and soy sauce, there’s a way”.

When I was upset, when I was bored, when I was disappointed, what else can be more gratifying as a big bowl of steaming rice, with a chicken drum stick, some sliced smoked tofu and some sliced Cantonese sausage, which all together cooked with soy sauce, sugar and spices (aniseed and dry chili from Shaanxi Province) on it?

So I wrote this post, after finishing my supper with all of these above at 21:19, just for express the inner feeling of this meal and my appreciate to the inventors of soy sauce, tofu and Cantonese sausage.

Thanks to you all, only with these tastes of home, could the Chinese people overseas like me be more motivated to make progress for everything that need to be done, just like my project.

Life goes on, as it never changes. The home tastes are the same.