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la_marquise) wrote2003-06-17 09:58 pm
la_marquise) wrote2003-06-17 09:58 pm
Chez Le Marquis et Marquise de Sarrasin
Miramon's post makes me think of this.
Visiting us is safe, really. I was about to type 'we have never tortured a guest' but then I realised it just isn't true. So, just in case, here is an incomplete list of things that might happen as part of a visit to the residence de Sarrasin.
You show you a lot of films with Jackie Chan/Andy Lau/Dick Wei/Michelle Yeoh/Yuen Biao/Ti Lung/Brigitte Lin/Maggie Cheung and more in them, and you leave with a Hong Kong movie addiction which costs you £££££.
We feed you something strange and jelly-like and Japanese. (Or peanut-flavoured peas. Or iced rice crackers.) Or something homemade and Chinese with red bean paste in it.
We keep you talking on the doorstep in your bicycle clips for four hours.
The Marquis shows off his sword collection.
The marquise talks about Dumnas for hours and hours and hours and then makes you watch something long and subtitled in French (or Bahasa Malay).
You are shed upon.
You are fed a rhubarb daiquiri.
You are subjected to the Japanese foot torturere (aka the reflexology roller).
We make you listen to Alan Tam's Cantopop version of Whitesnake's 'Fool for your Lovin'. Or Weird Al Yankovitch's polka version of 'We are Not Men, We are Devo'.
We show you the tape of the Leningrad Cowboys with the Red Army Choir.
Iskander sleeps on your head, or wakes you by biting your toes. Or Moon cat just bites your toes when you're awake.
You go home with a cat....
Visiting us is safe, really. I was about to type 'we have never tortured a guest' but then I realised it just isn't true. So, just in case, here is an incomplete list of things that might happen as part of a visit to the residence de Sarrasin.
You show you a lot of films with Jackie Chan/Andy Lau/Dick Wei/Michelle Yeoh/Yuen Biao/Ti Lung/Brigitte Lin/Maggie Cheung and more in them, and you leave with a Hong Kong movie addiction which costs you £££££.
We feed you something strange and jelly-like and Japanese. (Or peanut-flavoured peas. Or iced rice crackers.) Or something homemade and Chinese with red bean paste in it.
We keep you talking on the doorstep in your bicycle clips for four hours.
The Marquis shows off his sword collection.
The marquise talks about Dumnas for hours and hours and hours and then makes you watch something long and subtitled in French (or Bahasa Malay).
You are shed upon.
You are fed a rhubarb daiquiri.
You are subjected to the Japanese foot torturere (aka the reflexology roller).
We make you listen to Alan Tam's Cantopop version of Whitesnake's 'Fool for your Lovin'. Or Weird Al Yankovitch's polka version of 'We are Not Men, We are Devo'.
We show you the tape of the Leningrad Cowboys with the Red Army Choir.
Iskander sleeps on your head, or wakes you by biting your toes. Or Moon cat just bites your toes when you're awake.
You go home with a cat....
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True, except that I have managed so far to evade Hong Kong movie addiction.
We feed you something strange and jelly-like and Japanese. (Or peanut-flavoured peas. Or iced rice crackers.) Or something homemade and Chinese with red bean paste in it.
Mmmm. All of these things sound quite nice, actually. What I remember, though, is a small bowlful of something that included slices of cucumber, to be eaten with chopsticks. The Marquis observed that although it's an urban legend that cucumber is -5 calories, the legend was proved true in my case...
You are fed a rhubarb daiquiri.
I have been fed weirder daiquiries than that in your house. And enjoyed them.
chez sweet chez.
Kada.
Re: chez sweet chez.