Clearly, they've looked up some word Chinese word in the Chinese-English dictionary, which was only defined in English as "a sort of soup". It's more a SiT thang, but it's fun to cross-translate using alta vista babel fish, and definitely wise if you are pretending to know a language...
Interesting that soup with eel is the dearest. We have rivers full of them over here and there's not a single person I know or a singular shop that retails it. It's just something not on the culinary radar for most Australians.
An English King died of a surfeit of lampreys.
An eccentric cockney artist mate of mine, taught by Ian Drury, visited from NZ. They hired a car and arrived late from the Airport. He excused their lateness by saying that they stopped to eat at a Pineal shop he knew as a child in the East End. I though 'pineal' referred to that funny little gland in the middle of our branes. I assumed it was some kind of health-kick aberration.
After some bizarre exchanges he revealed that they had eaten Eels, Mash and Green Liquor in a famous Pie & Eel shop.
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