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Fruit Pizza & Sweet Tea 2
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Apr. 19, 2010
Sorry to keep you waiting so long for the continuation of 'Pizza & Tea', my friends. Here what I'm sure is that you'd be very disappointed about my following story 'cos it has little to do with that evening.
(Jul.17, 2009)
Well, speak of yesterday evening, Bessie and I soon met Nithin and his friend at the entrance of Suguo and Nithin drove us to a coffee shop nearby. We did enjoy our dinner there. < The 'Current Account' is done here.>
As is well known, Italy is famous for Pizza. Related experts and scholars have a common idea that nowadays' millions of pizzas baked each day throughout the world are originated with a baker in Naples, Italy around 200 years ago. This afternoon, I happened to meet Andrea, an Italian friend online. As naturally we talked about pizza which I had eaten yesterday evening. He was quite shocked when I told him I tried fruit pizza and he considered it was a blasphemy. 'It was strange', he said, 'why not try some simple pizza margherita? 'The question was I had no idea about 'margherita' before his explanation and I found the fruit pizza was not that bad. Is it that serious?
I couldn't understand him until I did some searching. It turns out that there are only 2 kinds of pizzas are authentic Naples pizza, they are 'Margherita' and 'Marinara'. Another question arises then. How can we get authentic pizza in a small developing city? Anyway, pizza doesn't interest me so much.
What happened later may help me understand Andrea better about his surprise of 'fruit pizza'.
It was their morning when it was afternoon here because of the time difference. Andrea liked to have a cup of tea after he got up in the morning. His father bought tea from China and his mother made it for him the night before. All he needed to do was to heat it in the microwave oven. It makes sense so far although I d't get what kind of tea he had and how did his mother make the tea, since in China we steep tea in boiling water. ‘I did a stupid thing, ’ he told me this afternoon, ‘someone had changed salt and sugar jars, so I put salt into tea and it tasted awful.’ 'Can't you distinguish salt from sugar?' I joked him with an understanding smile. 'Is it milk tea as you wanted to take sugar in it,' I asked. 'No,just tea,', he answered, 'I like tea with sugar.' 'What?!' It was my turn to be shocked。。。。。。
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Post comment Comment (13 replies)
- Reply Sally_Fan
- When the original things from country to country, it will change by the local culture, it's beyond question.
- Reply jojo_zhu
- Sally_Fan: When the original things from country to country, it will change by the local culture, it's beyond question.Circumstances change cases, I have to admit that.
- Reply nithinb
- Hiii Jo!! Miss those dinners & Lunch!! I am still waiting for the taste of your cooking skills!!
- Reply jojo_zhu
- nithinb: Hiii Jo!! Miss those dinners & Lunch!! I am still waiting for the taste of your cooking skills!!
I missed you, Nithin...I feel very sorry that I didn't have the chance to cook for you...i'll treat you my cooking next time when you come to China
- Reply jojo_zhu
- wuyong: I have been gone to ITALY two months this year!oh really??!!~ sounds great!!! well, tell me, what did you do there? What impressed you most?
Saw many pizza in local!
- Reply jojo_zhu
- wuyong: hehe,yes!Great!!~ What do you do, btw?
for work in there.
Femous building, tasty food and beauty girl.
- Reply wuyong
- jojo_zhu: Great!!~ What do you do, btw?My company make printing machine. This industry inside famous company. I am a after-sevice engineer.
- Reply jojo_zhu
- wuyong: My company make printing machine. This industry inside famous company. I am a after-sevice engineer.wow, engineer!!~
- Reply jojo_zhu
- wuyong: Now China is everywhere engineernope. Technic is power, and Engineer is powerful!!
