At least it's not cat

One thing I didn't mention in my earlier post on American food is that Chinese here is different. Instead of Beef in Black Bean, Lemon Chicken or Mongolian Lamb, they have Kung Pao, Orange and General Tsao's Chicken. Rob Lamb did tell me that bad Chinese food was one of the few things he didn't like about living in the US. But most of the Chinese students here in Bloomington seem happy with it so I think it's probably because we get mainly Cantonese food in Australia and here it is Mandarin cuisine.

I mention this now because I had dinner with friends at a Chinese restaurant on New Years Eve and one of the dishes had such an interesting name I felt compelled to order it: Bum Bum chicken! I wasn't sure whether the name referred to the cut of meat used or the flavour but I ordered it and did enjoy it. I later asked a Chinese friend who told me that the name has something to do with sticks. I then had to explain the joke. I guess they didn't see any problem here in Indiana as Americans always say "butt", "fanny" or "ass" (sic.).