Little late with this comment, but when I read about you eating Peking duck, which I absolutely love (never had fancy drawer though). I love it so much that, weeks after you wrote this, I am still thinking about it (!!).
I'd always thought it was a Cantonese dish because of the name (and because I ate it a lot with my family, and we rarely eat non-Canto dishes)- I think it's pronounced 'Buk-king' in Cantonese - but it turns out that... it's just people messing up the transliteration. https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/cgi-bin/moreabout.pl?tyimuh=peking
Anyway, keep writing about food! It's my fave part about your newsletter.
Omg thank you for sharing this article, I love reading about etymology! The only thing I love more is eating all of the food and I promise to keep writing about all of the things I try 👏
Please go get yourself some duck, and bonus points if it’s served in an elaborate chest of drawers.
1) I have never seen Eric so focused as he is in that picture. It is amazing.
2) Drew watched Five Nights at Freddy's and mentioned nothing about it being Chuck E. Cheese adjacent? (Sidebar: do you know that Chuck E. Cheese's full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese? We recently discovered this and it delights me.) I don't know if he thought the movie was good or bad, but I do know that the pizza from Chuck E. Cheese IS still a national treasure.
3) Every time you say you mention shitty cider donuts, I mean to bring you a bag from our local farm and then I always forget. They're done for the season now, but 2024, I've got you!!!
He was so overwhelmed in Flushing, I don’t think he’s ever seen anything like it. The mall food court blew his little mind.
I was aware of Chuck E Cheese’s government name. I go on a lot of YouTube deep dives and the Charles Entertainment Cheese lore runs deep. Did Drew like the movie? Did he play the game?
Little late with this comment, but when I read about you eating Peking duck, which I absolutely love (never had fancy drawer though). I love it so much that, weeks after you wrote this, I am still thinking about it (!!).
I'd always thought it was a Cantonese dish because of the name (and because I ate it a lot with my family, and we rarely eat non-Canto dishes)- I think it's pronounced 'Buk-king' in Cantonese - but it turns out that... it's just people messing up the transliteration. https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/cgi-bin/moreabout.pl?tyimuh=peking
Anyway, keep writing about food! It's my fave part about your newsletter.
Omg thank you for sharing this article, I love reading about etymology! The only thing I love more is eating all of the food and I promise to keep writing about all of the things I try 👏
Please go get yourself some duck, and bonus points if it’s served in an elaborate chest of drawers.
1) I have never seen Eric so focused as he is in that picture. It is amazing.
2) Drew watched Five Nights at Freddy's and mentioned nothing about it being Chuck E. Cheese adjacent? (Sidebar: do you know that Chuck E. Cheese's full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese? We recently discovered this and it delights me.) I don't know if he thought the movie was good or bad, but I do know that the pizza from Chuck E. Cheese IS still a national treasure.
3) Every time you say you mention shitty cider donuts, I mean to bring you a bag from our local farm and then I always forget. They're done for the season now, but 2024, I've got you!!!
He was so overwhelmed in Flushing, I don’t think he’s ever seen anything like it. The mall food court blew his little mind.
I was aware of Chuck E Cheese’s government name. I go on a lot of YouTube deep dives and the Charles Entertainment Cheese lore runs deep. Did Drew like the movie? Did he play the game?
GIVE ME THE DONUTS!