万花筒 2009-02-14&02-16 102天，吃遍全世界

There is nothing like trying a food that you’ve really never had anything like before.

"Gorgeous! Thank you so much."

 It’s kind of a really exciting experience, I think.

Hi. My name is Noah and I decided¹ to eat food from a different country every day in a row for as long as I could. It went for a really long time, and I’m really full now.

I've lived up all my whole life in LA and to find out that there is this much that I have never discovered is in one way really disappointing coz I guess I should have found it earlier, but also really liberating² and exciting, just to know that there is that much and there is that much more still to find.

 "Oh, mine!"

 It would be thoroughly³ disorderly to come up with a set of rules that I thought would be that useful to abide⁴ by. The prerequisite⁵ was no days off. So, you know, you gotta really do it everyday. Weekends count too. You gotta just, You know, every single day.

You know on Day 85, when you are getting Israeli food on Pico near our house, we are just both exhausted⁶. It took a really great meal to pull you out of that exhaustion⁷. When you have just, you know, good meals or mediocre⁸, or even worse, bad meals, it really, you know, it kinda zaps energy out of you.  It makes you wonder why you're doing it again.

As someone who is not a trained foodie, or actual foodie, there are times, I was just like, “Can we please talk about something else?”. Consistency⁹ of these noodles is fine.

Some days, it’s just Jackie-my girlfriend-and I, and some days it’s 8 to 10 to 15 people. For a China day actually, there were about 20 or 25 of us travelling all around San Gabriel Valley, going to 11 different places.

You know, a lot of people are quick to look at my website as a restaurant review website. It’s really not about restaurant reviews. It’s about the experience. You are doing a real review for a newspaper, you go multiple times, you check for consistency, you order the same thing one hundred times. And you really kind of get a feel to do over a trend to the restaurant on a night-to-night basis. This is about more experience. It’s… You know, they can have an awful night, you can have an awful night. And when you really go for the first time you will pledge to us. Actually a place like this is just so exciting because you really don’t know what’s gonna happen and you don’t know what the foods in the bill, how it’s gonna be, so part of the fun is just kind of waiting.

That it ended up Day 102 is really just a testament¹⁰ to “How amazing!”.

Well, I think it could have technically¹¹ gone on longer if the rule about cash had not been enforced by me.
 

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 liberating   

解放，释放( liberate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Revolution means liberating the productive forces. 革命就是为了解放生产力。
• They had already taken on their shoulders the burden of reforming society and liberating mankind. 甚至在这些集会聚谈中，他们就已经夸大地把改革社会、解放人群的责任放在自己的肩头了。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

3 thoroughly   

adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地

参考例句：

• The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
• The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。

4 abide   

vi.遵守；坚持；vt.忍受

参考例句：

• You must abide by the results of your mistakes.你必须承担你的错误所造成的后果。
• If you join the club,you have to abide by its rules.如果你参加俱乐部，你就得遵守它的规章。

5 prerequisite   

n.先决条件；adj.作为前提的，必备的

参考例句：

• Stability and unity are a prerequisite to the four modernizations.安定团结是实现四个现代化的前提。
• It is a prerequisite of entry to the profession that you pass the exams.做这一行的先决条件是要通过了有关的考试。

6 exhausted   

adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的

参考例句：

• It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
• Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。

7 exhaustion   

n.耗尽枯竭，疲惫，筋疲力尽，竭尽，详尽无遗的论述

参考例句：

• She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
• His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了，显然是太累了。

8 mediocre   

adj.平常的，普通的

参考例句：

• The student tried hard,but his work is mediocre. 该生学习刻苦，但学业平庸。
• Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.只有懒汉庸才才会留恋那大锅饭的年代。

9 consistency   

n.一贯性，前后一致，稳定性；(液体的)浓度

参考例句：

• Your behaviour lacks consistency.你的行为缺乏一贯性。
• We appreciate the consistency and stability in China and in Chinese politics.我们赞赏中国及其政策的连续性和稳定性。

10 testament   

n.遗嘱；证明

参考例句：

• This is his last will and testament.这是他的遗愿和遗嘱。
• It is a testament to the power of political mythology.这说明，编造政治神话可以产生多大的威力。

11 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。