River & Cheese

 

Last Sunday night we swung down to our 湘江 Xiang Jiang River. Picked up a pizza. What? Yeah, there's a hole-in-the-wall pizza place by our house now. We like never buy pizza cuz it's about 5x the cost of a normal meal. But this hole-in-the-wall pizza joint is less than half the price of Pizza Hut, and tastes pretty wow. I think our pizza intake is about to spike from 2x/year to 4x/year. Life is so ironic! I ate pizza 4x/week when I was in high school.

After the pizza Drew and the boys shot carnival airsoft guns at balloons, no win on the jumbo stuffed animals. By the way did you know that there are zero civilian firearms in China? (At least, in theory. There was a shooting murder a couple miles north of our house last spring.)

Got somethin' new up my sleeve for Chinese Neighbors. You know I love Chinese language, and I'm sure you love it too, right!? You could say it's the coolest language in the world, with the largest number of speakers and gaining ground as an international business language. Plus it's ancient, artistic, difficult, and fascinating with layers upon layers of meaning. But the best thing about progressing in Chinese is that this language allows me to know the great folks who surround me. So anyway, every post here on out is going to have a new Chinese character for you. 

In celebration of our new pizza place, our word is...

cheese:

奶酪 

nǎi lào

nǎi = milk

lào = something like 'jelly' or 'paste'

So cheese is milk jelly paste, mmm, mmm.

Have a great weekend everyone! Enjoy some 奶酪 on a pizza if you can!