I like Chinese food and things and and and...

No, that doesn't make much sense, and I'll be the first one to admit that.  Hee hee!

My mind's been in a bit of a twist the last two days thanks to a tummy bug doing the rounds.  I'd hoped it was flushed out by today, but apparently not.

Anyway, gross topic with TMI.

We had Chinese food for supper (the U-Seng Sweet and Sour family meal) because I got this gier to try out wonton dumplings.  OMG!!  They are wonderful!  The ones my mom and Pierre ordered were the pan-fried pork dumplings and man, the it was so certainly worth the spinach!

In this shot:  Sweet and Sour pork nuggets, no dough; chow mein noodles with chicken and veggies; the last vegetable spring roll; and the three white dumplings.  OMG!

while I waited for the food (the two "elders" made like bananas and  split) I wandered around the little supermarket they have attached to the restaurant.  They have some really interesting things in there!  They also have some really unidentifiable things in there.

One of the more unusual items is what they call in Chinese "Hundred Year Eggs".  Don't worry, they aren't really 100 years old.  No, it's duck eggs that are covered (traditionally) with a layer of clay and rice husk.  As the clay dries and the egg ages, it actually chemically preserves the egg and changes the flavour.  It doesn't look too appetising, I have to say, but have a look for yourself and think it over for the next round of munchies (oops!  Did that come out...?):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

On another note, and one more closely related to tarot:

I've been relearning my runes.  No, not in terms of the written alphabet (I know and use that anyway), but in terms of divinations.  All I can say is, thank goodness for tarot.  If not for the cards I do believe I would have had a much harder time of this.  I made a set of willow runes about ten years ago, but only used them once or twice.  Now, with time and reason to learn them again, i actually find them easier to work with.  I can't read them as "fluently" as my cards yet, nor remember their proper names (I only have the Anglo-Saxon names in my little book - really frustrating!), but I do have a better grasp of them now, and I say it's thanks to my experience with the tarot.

I also learned that the study of runes (all varieties), is know as Runology :P

Here's hoping I can get my lazy rear end (mentally speaking) back into learning them properly!