Dinner is served

As I think we mentioned before, we have a new ayi who helps take care of Tovina as well as cooking and cleaning. She speaks and reads some English which is very nice. The other week we gave her a recipe for a lemon chicken dish that looked mighty nice in the book. Now, when we say book, we are actually referring to a lovely coffee table book extraordinaire with over the top recipes and pictures, you know, the kind you look at and say, 'well sure they can do it for the book because they have crazy capable people and trick photography.'

So we buy the appropriate ingredients and then show the recipe to Zhao ayi, asking her if she has ever heard of this recipe and might be able to make it. The dish itself is not so unusual, this lovely book just happens to be the only reference we have that we can show her.

Sure she says, no problem. And hour later our dinner arrived on the table as a perfect replica of the picture in the book.We were most impressed.