PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES
The Taste Test
Pass the breakfast every outsider must pass: hear Grandpa Guan order two bowls of mung-bean drink and fried rings, hear the shopkeeper say right away, ask whether this is really it, be asked what the first sip tastes like, say sour and stinky, hear that it smells stinky and drinks fragrant, say you cannot get used to it, and be told that when in Rome, you have another bowl.
Audio instruction: English
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THE STORY
A snack shop by the hutong at seven in the morning, steam on the window, a queue of old men with bowls, and Owen on a stool with a grey drink in front of him.
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