Mutton powder, singsong in my flat, and a surprise picnic in the park
I had a bad night last night. I won't say any more, so I slept late.....until 8.30! It was then I got a text from Sherrie asking be if I had had breakfast. Nope, hadn't even washed and shaved! Meet me in the park at 9.15. we will go and eat mutton powder. I was intrigued. What was mutton powder? I asked for 9.45 and we agreed to meet. It was mid autumn festival so mist people were off work. We met in the park and went to the mutton powder shop. It was a new shop. It sold noodles and lamb. Powder turned out to be a mistranslation. Fen is flour, it translates literally as powder, so mi (rice) and fen (flour) is mifen which is rice flour. It is shortened to just 'fen', so yangrou (lamb/mutton) and fen, is yangroufen which translates literally is lamb/mutton powder! Mystery solved. Try reading it again if you are stillpuzzled. We each had a bowl. Sorry no pictures. We ate and drank , the...