by Sander Tams
12. September 2009 16:22
Actually, some days ago already, it was agon's 70 year birthday, so we celebrated today. Notice: This was not a birthday party as in lots-of-old-men-drinks-themselves-hammered-and-starts-dancing-on-the-tables like Fredrik witnessed, this was a birthday party for the close family.
This reminds me of the danish easter where my mother always cooked eggs and let us kids paint stuff on them.
I know that the yellow character on one of the middle eggs is a pictograph of the sun, is "Ri" in pinyin but actually pronounced more like "ghi" (the G is soft), and usually means day or sun. The signs together probably means birthday or something related.
There's always a lot of stuff on the table at David's place. I have yet to see a day where more than half of it actually gets eaten. (I think Joni too, because her refrigerator looks really like she stuffs I don't know how much into it everyday.)
Since this is a birthday, we have to eat a very special thing: Pig legs.
However, they actually do have birthday cake and even a birthday song in mandarin. However, the cake is actually a cheesecake because, as I already told you, taiwanese people arent big fans of sugar.
So now you know what you're missing if you're not going to befriend a taiwanese family some day in your life. And may you have a nice afternoon. Wan an!
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