We were invited to lunch prepared by new friends from Chengdu and had a Chinese feast. I can't give the Chinese names, but it was: pork dumplings, twice-boiled meat with bean sprouts, pork belly & peppers, "tofu that the chicken clawed", eggs and tomatoes, and sauteed spinach. A feast!
"To get long" meant to make do, to make well of whatever we had; it was about having a long view, which was endurance, and a long heart, which was hope.
- Fae Myenne Ng, Bone