8 years since I met my first friends in China
Time flies when you’re a Lunatic. I first arrived in China on December 6, 2006 for an 8 month contract as an English teacher. Three days later, I went to my first English corner.
Someone asked me about my favorite Chinese foods. I mentioned how much I love wonton soup. After some confusion and debate, it turns out I needed to be asking about yuntun soup.
That’s when a lovely pair of Cantonese girls invited me out for soup at one of Donguan’s oldest and most famous little hole-in-the-wall restaurants. The name of the place translates to Eternal Fragrant Garden, and they make an excellent bowl of wonton soup.
We ended up becoming great friends then, and I am very pleased that both are still among my very dearest friends today. Even though they aren’t related to each other, I refer to the pair of them as The Cantonese Twins. Individually and together, the two of them have always helped to keep my life in China extra crazy. 
Each year, I try to take them out sometime around December 9th to celebrate. Since that ended up on a Tuesday this year, we decided to do it on December 6th instead.
Anniversary dinner with my first 2 friends in China
The original plan was for my beautiful wife and incredibly beautiful daughter to come to dinner with us. Sadly, my daughter didn’t want to go out that evening, so the two of them ditched me and stayed home. 
Ah well, dinner with my pair of crazy Cantonese Twins is always entertaining. Eventually, we ended up at a Thai place and stuffed ourselves silly. Maybe next year I think we’ll go back for more wonton soup at Eternal Fragrant Garden.
