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《纽约时报》报旅游版上的一篇小文章，专门介绍武汉户部巷的小吃，我觉得比较有趣。作者Seth Kugel花了大约8美元，总共尝到了8种风味小吃。他是个自由撰稿人，能够利用很短时间内的经历写出这篇文章，应该说相当不错。在我看来，他的叙事轻松活泼，信息基本上准确，没有错过热干面、豆皮、水饺之类最地道的武汉小吃。有一点我们都非常清楚，作为跨文化的故事讲述者，我们有责任为读者搭桥。讲述美国故事的时候，我习惯用中国的例子作些对照和类比，希望因此帮助受众获得准确的理解。Seth Kugel为了告诉美国读者热干面在武汉人早餐中的重要性，他用美国人早餐必备的培根和煎鸡蛋作为例子。 从文章后面的更正看，他也犯了一个小错误，误将靠热干面出名的老字号“蔡林记”当成了热干面本身，那就成了武汉人早餐爱吃“蔡林记”，而不是“热干面”。另外，有一样小吃他没能搞清楚中文名字，所以用英文“甜面圈”（doughnut)代替。我想他吃的应该是武汉人说的“油登子”。 March 26, 2013, 3:22 pm?59 Comments In a Chinese Alley, an $8 Tasting Menu By?SETH KUGEL Even the strictest of budget should allow for occasional splurges: a modest hotel room after a string of hostel bunks; a just-this-once late-night cab; a beer upgrade from?P.B.R.?to?I.P.A.?But some luxuries never enter the frugal equation. Take, for example, the restaurant tasting menu — those drawn-out dinners of 8 or 10 or 25 courses, exquisitely designed (and sometimes served) by the chef. Or so I’ve heard. On?my trip to South China?this past winter, I finally found a tasting menu I could afford. It took some D.I.Y. initiative, but at a spot called Hubu Alley in Wuhan, I indulged in an eight-course meal that was a culinary tour of Hubei province. And all for just over $8 (52.5 renminbi, or $8.39 at 6.14 renminbi to the dollar, to be exact). A dollar a course? No tax, no tip? Beat that, Le Bernardin. Hubu Alley 户部巷isn’t a restaurant – it’s a T-shaped pedestrian area on the east side of the Yangtze, famed for the breakfast dishes sold by dozens of vendors from street carts and stalls. And designing my tasting menu could not have been more straightforward: I simply watched what other people were eating and followed suit. So here it is: The 8-Course Hubu Alley Breakfast Tasting Menu. ? Seth Kugel“Hot dry noodles,” a Wuhan breakfast specialty. Course 1: Re gan mian?(4 renminbi) – These “hot dry noodles” are the local breakfast standard, the bacon and eggs (or bagel and cream cheese) of Wuhan, and the original reason I came to the alley. My preboiled noodles were flash-d