Date:   11/10/2006 11:51:49 PM ( 18 y ago)
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Wow, you are not kidding!
The chinese do not have our sweet tooth! (good for them)
It's hard to find a good dessert over there!

In Singapore, if we would make something like brownies, they would eat like 1 or 2 bites and say it was enough - "too rich." Ummmmm, hello? We can eat like half a pan! Chocolate can never be too rich! haha

And why would I ever bother with those vaguely sweet, light and airy cakes? I can hardly even taste them! I'm also not a big fan of a dessert that features, for example, purple yams. Sorry.

Oh, and it was almost impossible to find a good THICK milkshake. The kind you must eat with a spoon because it won't go through a straw. Mostly they would be all runny and thin, a milky drink. Yuck!
Also, they could be pretty stingy... my brother told me that at the Dairy Queen, which did serve their Blizzards upside down (to show they were that thick), they didn't put much of the candy in (like Oreos). You could barely see the cookies. One small spoonful, that was it. And if you tried to convince them to add more, they would try to charge you per spoonful! And my brother would be like, "But DQ is American! And that's not how they make them in America!!"
Not related to dessert, but there was this Subway that would only give 3 tiny olive rings per 6" sub! Whereas in America, they will put several fistfuls on, if you wish!

Now, in Singapore, plenty enough people had become acclimated to the western tastes (particularly those who have lived abroad), so you could find good, rich cakes and desserts. But I don't think China is quite as far along.

I think the Thais like sweeter desserts than most asians. But Indian desserts - yuck! I haven't been to Thailand or India, but as far as the restaurants I've eaten at, that was what I picked up.

Now, not liking sweet/rich desserts:
healthwise = good!
good taste = bad!
haha

Overall those are just little quibbles - I LOVED the food in Asia!!!!! Chinese food in China, yum! (for the most part). And Singapore had AMAZING food - local food and also a great selection of American food. It is a food heaven! (unless you like thick milkshakes. Tough.)
 

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