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"That's disgusting, angel."
"It's not that bad."
"I can't believe you'd do that. After all we've been through together!"
"It was centuries ago, Crowley! It was while I was staying in China, it's quite a delicacy over there."
"Oh, well I suppose, if it's a delicacy. I wouldn't want to let our years of friendship get in the way of you stuffing yourself with local food."
"I wasn't 'stuffing myself'! And may I say, dear boy, you're taking this far too personally."
"Snake. Soup. You ate Sssnake Ssssoup, made with actual snakes, much like me, your friend, the actual sssnake, and you accuse me of taking it too personally. How would you like it if I went around eating angels?!"
"That's not the same at all! And anyway, just because you've got a snake form, doesn't mean you're actually a snake, anymore than I'm a human just because I look like one."
"Then maybe I should just go around eating humansss. How would you like that?!"
"Oh, I refuse to talk to you when you're like this!"
"Well, if I'm ssso hard to talk to you could always just eat me! Bet you'd enjoy that."
"If you must know, I didn't enjoy it all that much when I did eat snake soup. My Cantonese was a tad rusty at the time, and I was already halfway through it before they managed to get across to me exactly what I was eating. I couldn't... really finish it after that. Couldn't stomach it. I certainly never had it again all the time I was there."
"... You didn't like it?"
"Well, I mean, that is to say, it didn't feel right. What with you being..."
"A snake."
"Well, yes."
"Even though I'm not technically an actual snake, and it's just my demonic form?"
"Even so, my dear. I'm sorry I ever ate it all, really."
"No need to apologise about it, angel. S'not really your fault if humans go around eating snakes. You weren't to know."
"Still."
"...Er, Aziraphale?"
"Yes Crowley?"
"What... what do I taste like?"
"Crowley! Well, if you're anything like the ones I tried then chicken, probably."
"Hmm. Y'know I read somewhere that humans taste kinda like pork."
"That's nice dear."
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So, come to find out, there is this dish primarily made in Hong Kong called Snake soup (Shé Gēng Soup). its this bad ass dish made with venomous snakes usually (i looked it up, snakes most commonly used are not an endangered species so we good fam) and unfortunately its a dying art, cause the soup makers don't have people to pass the art on to. But, its a super popular dish in Hong Kong, and has been well known for thousands of years to be very medicinal too.
now, how fucking bad ass would that be as a food soul? i would think they would be PERFECT for like the dragon cavern group (longjing, longfeng, dragon beard candy, etc). You got this food soul with two snakes (the soup is made with at least two snakes) that are highly venomous, maybe a magic food soul that causes a bleeding\poison effect on an enemy or two, and have them be a UR since the actual dish is becoming more rare and stuff.
I am SO tempted to make this maybe as like a persona, or maybe just an oc. reason i say persona cause ive had this plotline in my head for a while i'd like to play with. its kinda a dumb one that u may see teens write but i just cant help myself, wanting to be in a fantasy world myself lol, especially food fantasy. Anyway, thought I'd share my idea!
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What's in the soup?
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Looking Down From Garden Hill, Sham Shui Po Spreads Out From Us To Include Old Streets, Quiet Shophouses And Romantic “Tong Lau”s Which Mesmerize You With Its Old-world Charm
“Sunset is the opening music of the night”. In Hong Kong, the most photogenic moment of our Victoria Harbour is at sunset. One of the best angles to take such photos is from Garden Hill (嘉頓山) of a very old district Sham Shui Po (深水埗) which some call it “District of Sunset” as the old area is full of faded glories. But, every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn—Sham Shui Po is now being well gentrified! There are more and more trendy cafes near Ki Lung Street (基隆街) and the zone is often nicknamed as “The Brooklyn of Hong Kong”.
Sham Shui Po is situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, adjacent to the deep-water Victoria Harbour. “Po” means the flat land with a pier. Sham Shui Po Pier, now sadly gone, can be traced back to 1924 or an earlier date. In the late Qing Dynasty several hundred years ago, one of the customs stations was built in Sham Shui Po. It was usually the first stop for the boats coming from Pearl River (珠江) of the Mainland to the west of Hong Kong when they arrived here. Sham Shui Po thus became a busy marketplace with brisk business activities. Cottage industries such as footwear, clothing, household goods, herbal medicine, and many other trades flourished. These industries were usually housed in a 3-storey building with a covered verandah and the building is called “tong lau” (唐樓). Owners work in the ground floor shops and their families live upstairs. When several “tong lau”s are joined to each other, they form a long outdoor pedestrian porch with a cover. Hong Kong has a rainy climate in summer and the design of a tong lau can protect customers from getting wet in the street after shopping. Many such old shops still exist and some even have been in Sham Shui Po for over 70 years. Success comes to those who are busy with it. So, it is unfair to say everyone in Sham Shui Po is poor.
In 1955, a Han dynasty tomb was unearthed during the construction of a government housing estate in Sham Shui Po. The tomb comprises 4 chambers and there is an entrance passage in the shape of a symmetrical cross. It is known as the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum (李鄭屋漢墓博物館). It sheds light on the history that about 2,000 years ago, Sham Shui Po was already inhabited by people who were rich enough to build such a fine tomb. Do take a look on a beautiful day!
Sham Shui Po is more charming than other districts in Kowloon combined. It will take you more than one day to fully explore this old district and see things that already vanish in other places. Let me give you an example.
Apliu Street (鴨寮街) is an olden and famous “flea market” street for electronic products inclusive of second-hand components, parallel imports, and discontinued models. Also, old vinyl records, cassette tapes, newspapers, magazines, and books can be found. “Apliu” literally means duck sheds because in the past, the area was a cluster of matsheds on the beach and partly over water where sheds were built. The street is now a shopping paradise for men especially homebodies. It is difficult to find such a fascinating nostalgic street in other area of Hong Kong.
Sham Shui Po is well known for its cramped quarters, high population density and caged homes. Dilapidated buildings are everywhere. Many live in bad condition. The district is old and the residents, many being workers in the factories of Sham Shui Po in the past, are facing economic threats when their physical health now declines. Other old people are attracted to the district since housing and basic necessities in Sham Shui Po are affordable for them. An extreme imbalance between rich and poor in Hong Kong shows that our high degree of capitalism had to be wisely adjusted. Of course, poverty is not necessarily an enemy to happiness. Some live confidently there despite all the negative factors.
Sham Shui Po was the heart of Hong Kong’s textiles manufacturing industry in the 1960s. Now, these factories have gone but the district is still a popular market for designers and craftsmen to buy fashion materials which are in abundant supply. They include knitted fabrics, buttons, cotton cloths, needles and threads. These things are like a box of crayons that colour Sham Shui Po. The prominent streets are Nam Cheong Street (南昌街) and Yu Chau Street (汝州街).
In Hong Kong, snake soup (蛇羹) is considered a nutritious and expensive traditional dish. It is consumed in the cold months to make the body warm and strong. It may cure ailments such as arthritis. The well-known one is in Sham Shui Po and the restaurant is called “蛇王協” (Snake King Hip) in Apliu Street. Young people tend to dislike snake soup but you should try it before the gourmet food disappears in Hong Kong.
I want to salute Sham Shui Po with a passage in writing by the French photographer Chirstophe Agou: With every glance I take in the “negative-positive” of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.
Sham Shui Po is nostalgically romantic.
Maurice Lee
Chinese Version 中文版: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jia-dun-shan-yao-109165156?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Sham Shui Po Market https://youtu.be/ln3ny9slWEo?si=GNWWrleDLz1J1qi5 Acknowledgement-RTHK
Sham Shui Po stories https://youtu.be/nWkpBNrJkts?si=ev3EzA-OY0RRsQrm Acknowledgement SEE Network
Lee Cheng Uk Han Tomb https://youtu.be/suMKLWpWiOc?si=JtKY6vdVH4L_7Ocl Acknowledgement-lhy1002