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Drying fish in China

You can take the boy out of the Chinese village…

Even in multi-million dollar (correction: Yuan) condos, old habits die hard in China. The fact these fish were outside an office begs a question or two:

  1. Do people routinely take large fish to work with the purpose of drying them?
  2. How is this written up on your performance evaluations. Motivated self-starter. Occasionally distracted by outside influences of a culinary nature. ?

I’ve spent an afternoon or two watching fish dry from my balcony. It’s not as bad as watching paint dry, but close. That begs further questions but I’ll leave them be.

17 Comments Add yours

  1. Ron in L.A. says:

    Someone has to be responsible for lunch, don’t they?

    R(etc… )

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  2. Corina says:

    I’m with Ron on this one. Lunch, dinner, someone’s gotta take care of it!

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  3. Stevo says:

    Ron, Corina: You make a valid point, but, dried fish isn’t a “prep at work” sort of meal. Maybe he/she is doing long-term meal planning.

  4. Jackie says:

    Yeah, you don’t see this too much around here…

    Although, when I lived in Phoenix (which is a little hotter than Tucson), if we’d get up to 115 or higher people would try to be funny and crack raw eggs on sidewalks.

    The scary thing is, they actually do cook if you leave them there long enough.

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  5. Jackie: Yum, sidewalk eggs….

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  6. Lola says:

    haha 🙂

    I’ve subscribed to your RSS feed and will be following your ramblings. Love your solid photography of daily life.

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  7. ybonesy says:

    LOL. Makes you wonder how it smells in the office.

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  8. Quickroute says:

    I’ve seen people in Iceland hang fish on a clothes line to dry them but never on a sidewalk to dry

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  9. Bibliomom says:

    When I was in Korea recently I saw plenty of dried fish. I definitely wasn’t brave enough to try any of it myself. I also noticed a lot of squid and I’m still kicking myself for not getting a picture of the piles of Squid sold by vendors at the Korean-American Friendship festival I attended.

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  10. truce says:

    I have no words. Luckily, I also have no fish…

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  11. Lee says:

    Ha.

    Last week, I went to Coney Island and saw fish on display just like that.

    “Porgys 10 for $5.”

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  12. AJ says:

    Very nice. I like how neatly the fish have been arranged too on a white table cloth. All you need is knives and forks and salt and pepper.

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  13. Stevo says:

    yb: Some things are better left undiscovered.

    QR: The Icelandians must be more advanced.

    BM: Squid is one of my faves. I eat it BBQ’d.

    Truce: No fish is good fish.

    Lee: Fish crosses all international borders.

    AJ: Pepper? On fish? Perhaps, I guess.

  14. cfimages says:

    It’s making me hungry.

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  15. AJ says:

    No pepper? Ah, but then I don’t eat fish, not even dried ones.

  16. Stevo says:

    Craig: I’ll grab a few the next time I see them.

    AJ: Are we talking about black pepper, white pepper, or hot pepper?

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