My respect for Chinese culture has grown enormously...

[venta]

... they eat condensed milk sandwiches.


This evening, while munching away on my noodles, fish cakes, weird green stuff and soup, I observed that the menu also offered:

Toast with Sweet Milk

which it described as "a Chinese favourite".

Now, condensed millk sandwiches (conny onny butties) were a standard tea-time treat when I was little. I'm not sure if this is a northern thing, or whether it's due to my parents having been brought up during war time, when sweet things were hard to come by and condensed milk was relatively common.

Since migrating south, aged 18, I've found exactly two people who didn't go "Ewwwwww" at the concept of sweet, sticky milk in a sandwich.

So, for the princely sum of 80p, I got two slices of buttered toast, and my own pitcher of condensed milk to pour all over them. Lovely.

Oxford residents: Cafe Orient, opposite the job centre on George Street.

Comments

[fluffymark]

To me that sounds nice. Not that I've tried it before, but it does sound liek it should be good. For the record, I'm a backward northerner.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

It's in Winnie-the-Pooh, so it must be good.

Mmm, haycorns.