Happy Chinese New Year!

Yesterday/today (it’s very early Monday morning), was Chinese New Year.  I read newspaper articles about some amazing dinners which were planned in celebration, dinners with multiple courses which cost thousands of dollars per person.  I had to break the news to Flippy that Bird’s Nest Soup is made from bird saliva.  If you’d like to try bird’s nest soup yourself, this wonderful online store will sell you the birds’ nests... for about $600 per pound.  May I suggest you go with the prepared soup at just $55?

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Posted by Leigh-Ann on 02/19 at 05:33 AM

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  1. Oh. My. Color me stupid but I always assumed the bird nests in the soups were some sort of pasta.

    Please pass the chow mein, instead.

    Posted by Diana  on  02/19  at  11:43 AM

  2. Really? I always had the same assumption as Diana. Eww.
    Happy New Year! :)
    It’s also the year of the Pig, supposedly a financially advantageous year.

    Posted by Carina  on  02/20  at  06:02 AM

  3. Don’t get me wrong, I like birds and all, but their saliva doesn’t interest me as a food source.  Blech.  I admit it, I too thought it was pasta or something.  Mmmn, delicious—“Right after they are mated, they regurgitate long, thin gelatinous strands from their salivary glands under their tongues.”

    Posted by Flippy  on  02/20  at  08:55 AM

  4. Mmmmm. Flippy, now you have me drooling. Who could resist congealed bird spit when it’s described like that?

    Posted by Diana  on  02/20  at  09:08 AM

  5. I started this blog so I could help educate people about arcane things and look, I’ve succeeded!

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  02/20  at  09:14 AM
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