343, Remembering those things about eating lobster in Angola, Africa
I came to earth for a trip, and I wanted to swim against the current. I've been working hard for more than forty years, but I've been lost for half my life. I've been to foreign countries, and I've come back with scars all over my body. The first thing you need to do is to look at the past and realize that it was all a dream.
The hardest thing about Angola in Africa is not the difficulty of work, nor the hot weather, but the pain of homesickness and unaccustomed to food. Although all companies have their own cafeteria and have someone to cook, but year after year, day after day to eat down inevitably will be bored. Because of the fear of danger, so in Angola can not go out, not to mention want to meet a few people to find a restaurant to drink, so get some small dishes in the dormitory drink has become the norm.
In Angola, not all people love to drink, prices are quite high to get some food to drink a down to spend a lot of money, across the ocean to work abroad is to earn money, so look for those cheap things, such as black people do not eat lobster, crabs, turtles, these shells are very cheap at the beginning of these things, and goat, sheep, sheep's head, cow's head, cow's head, and so on, these things are very cheap. .
Black people do not eat these things, so in the beginning is very cheap, it is said that 10 U.S. dollars can buy a large pot of lobster (that is, the largest pot, the diameter of more than a meter deep more than 30 centimeters of the pot), well, that is, since the 08 years since I stayed in Angola colleague told me, and said that not a flat pot, it is the pot with the tip of the pot, the big one is more than a foot long. This big pot of three or five strong man and steamed and boiled drinking wine to eat two days still can not eat ...... later black people with poor eyes look at us, and then later to see us very much like to eat these things slowly went up in price.
Well, I admit that I did not catch that wave of welfare, did not eat so cheap lobster. 2011 I went to Angola to work did not eat so cheap lobster, but I have eaten cheap mutton haggis beef haggis and so on. From the beginning of the do not want money to pick up money, and then go to ask for these things after the Chinese more, God damn black traitors even made and serious lamb a price. Originally, these things they are thrown away, see the Chinese people eat to money, this gang of God damned black hearted black traitors.
As a result of a period of time nothing to do, so generally every Saturday and Sunday to go to the beach to play in the bar, listen to music and drink some beer to see the blacks dancing to enjoy the wind of the exotic seaside, not a professional dance over the life, although occasionally there is an impulse to dance with the blacks ****, but they raised their arms to the wind is filled with a fishy, strong, top wind smoked three miles of smelly elbow nests! The smell makes me afraid, or pull back, I can not enjoy the strong flavor of Africa.
To go to the bar to play is just to wait to buy lobster, because in the bar not far away from the black people often go out to sea fishing, every time we go to see the black people's fishing boat fishing back, we will buy some.
Buy the most or lobster, colleagues see lobster after a look have not seen the world, shouting a swarm of people began to watch, gleeful look people heartbroken, alas, these children may have only seen the cooked lobster, have not seen a live bar?
Usually we buy by the number of people, one person a, when working in Soyo once bought a foot long lobster, steamed, each person divided into a hold to eat. We all had a good time, some dipped in garlic soup, some in wasabi, and some holding the lobster for a photo ...... Anyway, they were all quite happy.
Later, the lobsters became more expensive, about 20 dollars a piece. And because we ate it every week, people got tired of it, or because we couldn't do it right. So there were always people saying that the lobster didn't taste as good as the haggis soup, so they slowly ate less of it.
In 2016, due to the company's driver resigned to return home to marry his daughter-in-law. Beijing headquarters then recruited a new 48-year-old driver from China. The driver showed a strong interest in lobster when he arrived. At first I thought he was from a coastal hometown and used to eating seafood, but then I asked him if he was from Shandong.
On one of the outings, the driver saw a black man walking on the road with a pot of lobster on top, and waved at us as we passed by, and the driver asked me: Have you got any money? I'll trade you some kwanzaa for RMB. I asked him: what for. He said, "Is that black guy carrying a lobster in a pot? I want to buy some to eat.
哎，我还以为他要钱是有其他用途呢，比如去天上人间去消费，结果就是单纯想吃点龙虾，那好说，停下车买就行了。
We parked the car over the road waiting for the black woman over, see us parked after the black woman from a distance to reveal the white teeth smile and flowers like three steps, two steps epileptic came over, panting pots from the head down to the ground and said: Amee aunt, A give, haunted vice, hit the pop. The driver asked me what the black man was saying. I told him black people are saying: friends, this, new, very good, you can understand: friends, this is fresh, very tasty ......
The driver squatted down to pick out the lobster, and suddenly asked me: how to smell bad? Is not the lobster bad? I told him that this is not a bad lobster flavor, is a black woman stinking armpit flavor. This buddy looked at the black woman and looked at me, a puzzled face. The black woman looked at me too, and I think she was thinking: what are these two muttering about? Are they greedy for my beauty?
The driver, a thrifty man, chose a few small crabs with crayfish and told me that it was enough. I asked him why he didn't pick some bigger ones and buy more.
He smiled and said eat a rare on the line, go abroad to work is to earn money, not to consume. The first thing I'd like to say is that I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this. He asked me to ask the black woman how much these a few, asked the black woman said to give 1000 kwanzaa, I told the driver said: to 1000 kwanzaa, the driver asked me how much this 1000 kwanzaa converted to RMB.
This can make me difficult, a long time did not ask the market price, but I remembered that 500 kwanzas or 600 kwanzas for 1 U.S. dollar, I told him about the equivalent of about 12 dollars or so, it may also be less. The driver was happy to hear that, and said happily that it was not expensive.
I did not pay immediately, to the black woman told the price, only to complain about the lobster head is small, the crab is not beautiful, 500 kwanzas it? The black woman refused, said 800 kwanzaa, 800 kwanzaa, 800 kwanzaa, which is about 8 yuan, really not expensive.
Back to the company we did not go to the cafeteria to eat dinner, just played a little vegetables and rice back, the lobster and small crabs cleaned after finding a pot to start cooking, in my experience, small fire slow cooking pot on the cooked.
While the lobster was cooking, I ran to the kitchen to find a head of garlic to make some sour sauce, and came back to wait for the pot to open. It did not take long to open the pot, the driver also asked me this is cooked? I said don't worry about it, with my experience of eating lobster for five or six years, I'm sure there is no problem.
Fished out and put in a bowl, we have such a condition, lobster with a big flower bowl is so simple.
Drinking from the kitchen to ask for a bottle of erguotou, the driver is very satisfied with nibbling on the lobster and drinking wine, told me that the lobster at home is very expensive ...... here is cheap to eat more ......
I peeled off a lobster in a bowl, looking at the clean white rice and lobster meat, feel less than braised elbow and rice more match!
Later, this driver worked for more than a year also resigned and went home, as if his mother's health is not very good. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on a new product. The driver doesn't use WeChat or QQ, and is a very decent person.
This life is long, good treatment of the encounter, the heart of the experience, life is ultimately a can not return to the trip, I wish the mountains and fields have fog lamps, shaking can also return to the boat. I wish you all the best, and I wish you all the best in your endeavors. Cheer up, brother. Fox Fairy 2022.7.7