If you order Peking duck, how do you expect to lose weight? Fragment by Kyi May Kaung. I just went out to dinner on my own, and I ordered a whole Peking duck. I know I should not have it, but having been snowed in for over a week, during which time I ordered home delivery for $70 worth of groceries with a $10 delivery fee and a $15 discount, and paid the delivery person $2, because thats all the small change I had in my wallet, I felt I should celebrate Chinese New Year properly. But before I made out the order, I felt like the actor Adrian Brody playing the Polish Jew, hiding in an empty apartment in Warsaw, down to his last 2 dried beans. Of course it wasnt that bad for me, as I am in the Greater DC area and there are no Nazis outside, but I can imagine how it was. I find that when I run out of fresh fruits and vegetables, I have to boil and eat the dry foods that I stock up Burmese style, having been conditioned to hardship by Ne Wins BSPP Socialism. When I first got to the United States, I could not go into a supermarket, but I would feel like crying. I thought of my children and the chocolate I kept in a bedroom cabinet under lock and key, and the little bits I would ration out to them now and then. . . . From my Memoirs, A Front Row Seat. KMKaung--KMKaung
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 05:39:39 +0000
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