The Spectator, April 5th, 2003
Jeni Hung takes her children to China to pay their respects to their ancestors Qufu, Shandong Province unch is turtle soup, sea slugs or stirfried cicadas. The cicadas look like large, fat cockroaches and the sea slugs are slimy but very good for you. We order turtle soup for the children. When it arrives, the turtle is floating on its back in the pot, and the waiter puts it on a plate with its four little legs sticking out. My daughter Sophie (aged 12) refuses it. I don't really blame her, but the restaurant is owned by one of our cousins and we have to show willing. By now my children are t...
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