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Help me eat this delicious Chinese crab dish

ghost of a past number — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:40:48 -0800

Help me eat this delicious Chinese crab dish. Feeling adventurous at lunch time today, I ordered some ginger and green onion crab from a delivery place. What I got was one crab, cut in quarters, seasoned with delicious faux-chinese goodness, breaded and deep fried. Shell and assorted inedible parts where still attached, and I couldn't figure out how I'm supposed to eat this, with chopsticks no less.

Should I pick this up with my fingers and just eat the meat parts? Is there some trick to getting the meat out of the shell? Is the shell edible? Or is my local non-Chinese Chinese cook clueless?

Apologies if my display of ignorance is offensive to anyone. Anyway, it was really tasty and the people watching me were amused.

Can Robots Use Chopsticks?

qbxk — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:09:25 -0800

Can robots use chopsticks? Over lunch, I wondered if we've yet programmed a robot to use chopsticks. Could this be an Iron Turing Test?

Use of chopsticks on any object are acceptable, images or movies are preferred. Bonus points for anthropomorphic robots captured in the act of "eating".

Chopsticks!

saysthis — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:17:58 -0800

Give me some ideas about what can be done with those disposable chopsticks at Chinese restaurants once they've been used (I live in China, so there's lots of 'em). China, believe it or not, actually has a pretty effective recycling apparattus - since nobody recycles, there are people who dig through the trash at about 3 in the morning, pull out anything they can sell, and leave the rest for the garbage shovelers and street sweepers who come out at about 5-6 in the morning. The garbage shovelers then sort by hand what's left. Sure ain't pretty work, but it's effective, at least where I live.

Anyway, one type of garbage I almost never see pulled and recycled is the disposable bamboo chopsticks/kebab sticks (coal grills and food on sticks are a stable of the street food market). I remember reading once about a guy who collects them and makes furniture out of them, and I guess now that I'm managing to store away a little capital and thinking about starting my own business, I'm wondering if there's a way to recycle these locally and turn them into something resalable. Any ideas/ballpark costs? The more ape-able and small-scale this thing is, the better, because it would get rid of a major pet peeve to my tree-hugging conscience (and probably open up consulting opportunities in the future :D ).

What is the name of this song?

armoured-ant — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:19:27 -0800

It's driving me mad. My girlfriend thought it was The Entertainer, my housemate calls it Chopsticks. What on Earth is this tune called? Apologies for crap use of recorded midi guitar noise.