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[Canuck2112]

Protein powder, protein bars, multivitamins, Jamaican blue mountain coffee (I'm a coffee snob), brown rice, and a stack of Maxim magazines

[Lanza-Armonia]

My package consists of:

: A new XBOX game very month
: Socks. here in Zhongguo socks suck!
: Playboy. Always handy (get it?)
: and some European condoms. Y'canny never find a good size johnny over here. Again, also handy...

LA

[lozwich]

Vegemite, vegemite, vegemite. Never ever thought I'd miss it, but I do.

Tofu.

Australian dark chocolate.

*sigh*

My sister tells me there's a care package sitting in her house, with vegemite in a tube ( ) and lots of my favourite feminine hygiene products, but somehow its been sitting there for the last 5 months and hasn't quite made it to the post office. Guess I'll just collect it if I should ever make it home again...

[Will.]

Picked fish, pickled onions in malt vinegar, Dr Bronner cheese puffs.
marinated artichoke hearts. butifarra negro. kaschanka. sauerkraut. A raw milk hand moulded and ladled camembert at the point of ammoniacal decomposition. Fresh, ripe soursuks,mangoes and passionfruit.
and a French boulangerie.

[jud]

No care packages, but every time I return:

2 dozen bagels (I was going to try for 3 dozen, but my boyfriend forbade it)
yes, Naturegirl, nothing beats mac and cheese (how embarrassing in Italy, I have to hide it when I get home)
poptarts (frosted)
When you eat some of the freshest, best food in the world (Italian), it's actually sinfully nice to eat some good chemically-composed grub.

Dr. Brown's black cherry soda
oreos
instant miso soup

then my favourite beauty products (M.O.P. and Fresh)

[naturegirl321]

My mom's a health food nut, so we had frustose, instead of sugar, brown bread only.
THe mac and cheese we ate is really called shells and cheddar and tastes much better than the weird orange stuff.

[Star 9]

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-Pink Extra bubble gum (30 packs)
-O.B. tampons
-Redbull
-LSD
-Lays potato chips
-Ear candles (my brother likes them so he sent a couple)
-Mix tapes
-Mint chocolate chip ice cream[color=violet]

[thelmadatter]

Fortunately Im only one country over (Mexico/US) and my son comes to visit me a couple times a year. What I usually request -

Twizzlers
Ovaltine (rich chocolate not the malt crap )

And lots of stuff for making Chinese food like sesame oil, chile paste curry pastes etc. While you can get a little bit of this in Mexico City, it is very expensive and the last jar of chili garlic sauce I bought was bad! Next time, he is bringing a wok

[lagerlout2006]

TEA!!!!???? Who said they would send tea to to China??? The stuff is so good here you should send it home. OOPS Sorry this is not the China board..I logged in to say that practically everything mentioned is available here without even looking hard. I even saw pop-tarts and cans of Irish stew and clam chowder here recently. (Granted you could eat in a 5-star hotel for the price of a box of pop-tarts.)

Dove chocalate is evrywher is Hershey so much better?? Lays chips are sold at a little mom and pop store nearby.

Outside of Moms cooking I would be hard perssed to name any food product I would want sent over...Good spices maybe. Maybe.

Mack n cheese. Prison riots have erupted at home when this was served.

[shenyanggerry]

I'm bringing tea to China for a friend as requested. Chinese tea is different.

[jud]

I'm actually quite partial to the weird orange stuff.

Also, I forgot, bottled Silver Palate salad dressing.

in Italy (at least in the smallish city where I am) it's not so easy to find non-Italian products, and the Chinese groceries in the big cities near me have a lot of expired items. Berlin has great Asian supermarkets.

[woza17]

Jud do you think we could get involved in some food exchange program. I love Italian food and I am finding that I can put together a near decent antipasto plate but the good olives and cheese are sorely lacking.
I am just getting ready to go to the market, todays menu will be nut roast, with a homemade tomato sauce,mashed potatoes, cauliflower in a cheese sauce, honeyed carrots and garlic and ginger brocolli.
Bon apetito
Ciao Carol

[jud]

Carol, my boyfriend, who's Italian and has been to NY with me 4 times, and I always joke about ordering Chinese food (from NY that is).

Italian food is fresh, simple, and fantastic, but you really start to miss great Asian, Mexican, Turkish etc.

The Chinese restaurants here are terrible. They adapt everything to the Italian palate.

What I wouldn't do for a vegetable bun and scallion pancakes and some good bok choy.

What part of China are you in? I grew up in Hong Kong when it was still British, so I'm used to Cantonese.

[woza17]

I am in Dongguan, in Guangdong province, so there is a lot of Cantonese food to choose from. I like Chinese food but the only way to eat it, is go to a restaurant with as many Chinese friends as you can, so then you have a huge variety of dishes to choose from.
The Chinese/western food is rubbish and overpriced, I have seriously thought of hiring myself out as a consultant, in fact I might go off and get some cards printed.
How come you grew up in Hong Kong? What was in like, I lived there 30 years ago. Tell us a story.
Cheers carol

[jud]

Wow, I lived there almost 30 years ago, too; I always think I'm in my twenties and then reality hits.

Many good stories, but no real story. My father, now retired, was a banker and was transferred.

I was a child, so for me it was very natural living there. There were so many expats and it was certainly fast, expensive, and squalid at the same time. The whole British influence was clearly very felt...it was so markedly different from our lifestyle, in a way just as distant as the Chinese way of life.

My most vivid memories are: the humidity, my mother's shopping (she never wanted to come back to the States!), my Lutheran missionary education (I'm not Christian), and, sort of back to the topic of this thread, the food.

No one is allowed to order while eating Chinese with my father unless they're Chinese.

Thanks for the interest! And how about that food exchange?

How difficult is it to receive care packages where you all are? Here it's difficult as everythings held up by customs.