Même dans mes rêves, je rêve de la nourriture

Even in my dreams I dream of food.

I've been studying for organic chemistry which is so dry and bland I equate it to eating unflavored rice crackers in the middle of the desert. When my head is buried in the books my mind can't help but daydream about things I could be eating. After 4 hours of studying Sn2 substitutions with primary substrates and polar aprotic solvents I was sleepy so I took a mid day nap. I had this wild dream that I was in chinatown visiting a friend who was working in a bakery, which he really doesn't. I ordered steamed buns and cha siew bao to go and he gave me a bag of sweet bread filled with coconut paste. In my dreams I can taste and smell food and even feel the texture of it in my mouth. This bread was warm, soft, and sweet. After the bakery I went to get churng fun from this place my friend introduced me to which makes it the best in chinatown. I ordered 2 lbs and she yelled at me for not giving her correct change. After that I rushed to go get dao foo fah (soybean pudding/gelatin) from the doa foo fah lady but she was gone =( I felt sad. And then I was on the train going to meet my friend somewhere. I woke up with some crazy cravings after that.

I wonder how I look when I'm dreaming about food? Am I smiling? Am I chewing like a cow? Who knows. But man that bread was good!

The interesting thing about chinese bread which we call "bao" is that it's a bread but it's sweet. It's not like French baguettes or Italian bread. It's more along the lines of brioche but not as bready. It's very soft. I wouldn't consider it a pastry either because to me pastry makes me think of flakey, like a croissant, which is it not. Sometimes it is sweet and sometimes it can be slightly savory. They are many different types. Some have sweet toppings or sweet fillings, some have savory toppings, some are just strange weird like corn and dried meat floss... but I digress. I'm just babbling now. Time to get back to my date with stereocenters, R and S rotations, and enantiomers!