Tang Ren 唐人 means Tang people - Tang as in Tang dynasty. Teochew people are descendants of the Tang Dynasty - like the Cantonese and Hokkien people. So we call China Town Tang Ren Jie - Tang people's street.
I visited two grocery shops first to buy stock items so I can continue my Chinese season. However, I also wanted to go to my favourite cake shop - MingPin 名品 and have a look at their cakes and also to see if I can buy my birthday cake.
My birthday will be on 19 September this year - on ZhongQiu Jie 中秋節 - Mid-autumn Festival - that is what ZhongQiu Jie means. I was looking for wuren yue bing - not 無人月餅 - but 伍仁月餅. I came home and search my dictionaries for wuren and found none and I noticed some websites write it as 五仁月餅.
From what I can see, people call mixed nuts as wuren written as either 五仁 or 伍仁. Interesting and this word in not in any of my Chinese dictionaries.
So while in MingPin, I saw a number of very cute little cakes.
Do you like the cat cake? Lovely - perhaps little Charlemagne would like that cake too.
I also went to view some gongfu chaju 工夫茶具. They have very cute tea sets nowadays in China Town. I did not buy any, perhaps for my birthday next month.
While at the shops, I really saw some hongmaodan 紅毛丹 and I have discussed this in my ChaoShan language blog.
Fr Jose and Christina invited a few of us to eat at WenXing 文興. WenXing in English is Four Seasons - famous for their roast duck.
The food was not very good. Their ChaShao 叉燒 was really dry and as if they have killed an old pig to feed us. Their XO French beans was totally over cooked and the French beans shrivelled up. As for their Gongbao prawns 宮保蝦 was like sweet and sour gone wrong.
However, thanks to Fr Eddie Wu, we got our soup free, a 10 percent discount and free tea which was worth around 25 pounds.
The three lads drink Tiger beer and that added up to 21 pounds and the total bill came to around 84 pounds for five people and Christina gave a 15 pounds tip for rubbish food. I would not give a single cent. LOL
I suppose when you are famous, you can give rubbish and get away with it. I do not think I would be visiting 23 Wardour Street W1 for a very long time. Bayswater Four Seasons is much much better - their original restaurant.
So what did we eat?
We also ate their niurou chaomian 牛肉炒麵 - beef fried noodles which was really zaogao 糟糕. I would not feed my enemy with this niurou chaomian.
So, the hosts were Christina and Fr Jose
Two seminarians - David and Carlos were also invited for dinner.
So, can we not eat at Four Seasons Wardour Street again, please?
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