Chinese lesson, translate "gou" into english what do you get?

So I haven't written on this blog in a very long time, but that is because I have transitioned over to my new blog on my website: www.chinarepoffice.com . On the website we discuss many business related topics dealing with China and its business environment.

Today an incredible thing happened that I felt that I needed to write about and share with all of you. Before I tell you I must paint you a picture of the area around my school, fit is a 10 minute walk from the bus stop to my university, and there are many dogs wandering around the street. This past week a new restaurant opened up on the way to my university. With that out of the way I must tell yo about today!

I went out with some of my students for dinner and they know I am a vegetarian. So we went to this new restaurant and I started to order (yes in chinese!), I order a spicy tofu dish and a sweet and spicy eggplant dish and then they ordered a few more vegetarian dishes. Then the question came, "Arzan can we order meat for us?" and my answer like always is "of course". So they order 2 meat dishes...

We start eating all the vegetarian dishes and finally the meat dishes come out, and they start talking and start eating it... and all of a sudden one of my students stops eating the meat. *light bulb turns on* and Arzan says, " what's the matter why did you stop eating it?" she could not explain it to me in English... and so she tries to explain in Chinese to me...and .... I UNDERSTAND.....why did I understand? well because this week I learned some new chinese words... and one of the words I learned was "Gou"...which translates to... DOG! Yes they were eating DOG for dinner!

Wait... it gets better...as I did not know how to react I started to laugh...

So as everyone else continues to eat this dish, I watch as a girl spits out a dog bone and says " ji ge hen hao chi" "this is very delicious". I couldn't stop laughing....

but wait it gets better.....


So as I continue to laugh, another student says very delicious as she pulls out her phone shows me a picture of her dog and asks me if it was cute!

What an eventful evening! Hence the reason I had to share it with you... I just hope tomorrow as I walk to the university from the bus stop I see those dogs I see everyday...