Culinary King (Full Mix Vocal)
Album: CONTEMPORARY CHINA FUSION
Lyrics
On the streets of London
Every once in a while
An englishman yearns for crispy duck
In the squares of Moscow, the young workers
Crave chicken with cashews
In chinatowns across the US
No man will miss his weekly sweet and sour
Chorus
Hot, sour, spicy, sweet
From north to south, east to west
Wherever you go
Chinese food is – no question-
Culinary king of the globe
Don’t get me wrong
I wouldn’t swap my roast potato for a bowl of white rice
Or bin my beef steak for a slice of steamed fish
But how could I truly celebrate
Without suckling pig?
Or get through Autumn
Without mooncake?
Chorus (as above)
So throw down that knife and fork
Take up your slender chopsticks
Macdonalds may taste ok
But next to chinese food? – just insipid
Its no match for the simple toufu bean
That becomes 20 different dishes - sweet, sour or fried !
Chorus (as above)
When englishmen meet they ask
‘How are you?’
When the chinese greet they ask
‘Have you eaten?’
Its as simple as that
‘Food’, they say, ‘is Heaven’.
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