“HaiDai”(Aged Chineses for looking after their grandchildren oversea) life description(sequel)
Experiences in American (episode 151)---Li Qingye 2010-09-15
常常有国内朋友问:“你们在美国吃什么?”
是啊,民以食为天,吃什么?这时候我就想起《围城》里的一个细节,方鸿渐刚从海外回到祖国,在自家家里,他妈妈挑好吃的送到他饭碗上,说:“我想你在国外四年真可怜,什么都没得吃!”大家都笑她又来了,在外国不吃东西,岂不饿死。她道:“我就不懂洋鬼子怎样活的!什么面包、牛奶。送给我我都不要吃。”可怜天下父母心,方老太太说的有道理,但不够全面。洋鬼子有他们的好吃的东西,有的咱们吃得惯,有的咱们吃不惯,咱们是中国口味中国胃呀!在超市还有卖仙人掌(当菜)的,这东西我是不敢领教的,真是送我我都不要吃。
说到吃,我们还是买他们的菜做咱们口味的食品,买他们的面粉做咱们的扯面、饺子、包子。这儿的美国、墨西哥、欧洲超市一般菜都有,什么西红柿、豆角、西兰花、茄子、洋芋、红苕等等都有,肉类有牛肉、猪肉、鸡肉。我们是一周买一次菜,回来放冰箱里,买菜时那个店便宜就上那个店。想要豆腐、豆瓣酱、榨菜等等就到中国城中国店去买。我们在这儿今年我女儿还买了豆浆机,天天打豆浆喝。
Contry people often asked me:"what do you eat in America?", Oh! It is the most imp
About feed, we yet buy the local materials and make our Chinese taste dishes, do the "pull noodle"; "dumpling";"Baoxhi" with their flour meal. The American, mexican, and Europen supermarkets have almot normalvegitables, shch as the tomato; bean; pigegg;cauliflower; potato; sweet potato etc…and butcher’s meat; chicken. We usually shop every week on
(文文和外婆在公园里)(Grandmother and Wenwen in the park)
文文从幼儿园回来,在家吃了晚饭,我们领她到公园玩儿,小公园有遛遛板、秋千等等,大公园就是一大片绿地,孩子们在那里跑呀跳呀,不怕摔着碰着。这两个公园里都有“海带”,两三个聚在一起聊得热火。“海带”带的这些在美国出生的小孩子,有的汉语、英语都会说,有的英语棒,汉语差。家长希望孩子英语汉语都棒。
Back from kindergarten, after dinner home, we lead her to play in the park, there are swings and sliding board etc in the small park, the big park on
(小公园的雕塑)(A sculpture in th esmall park)
(大公园的绿地,两个公园离我们住处一般远,走三分钟就到了)(Lawn in the big park, these two parks are the same distent to our home, it is about 3minute walking way)
芝加哥公园多,都是免费的。双休日有时间我们就带文文上那些更大的公园去玩,有时间文文跟她妈妈到海军码头的少儿博物馆去玩多半天。
There are many free parks in Chicago, in weekend days, we will take Wenwen to some bigger parks, and sometimes, Wenwen with her mama go to the Navy wharf's Child museum for half day.
我们在这儿不用自己动手洗衣服,地下室有一排自动洗衣机、烘干机,洗一桶0.75美元,塞三个25美分的硬币,它就运转了。烘一桶也是0.75美分,把衣服放进去,到时候去取就行了。
In Chicago, we don't wash clothes by hands, in basement there is a row of auto washing and drying machines, 0.75$ per barrel, put into three 0.25 coins, washing machine runs, also 0.75$ for drying of barrel clothes, place clothes in and take them out just at the time they draid.
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