Reasons why I could never voluntarily become a vegetarian.

• Bacon.
• Wine gums. (The really good ones contain gelatin.)
• Mango pudding.
• Steamed spot shrimp, heads on, with a soy and green onion dipping sauce.
• Hainan chicken rice, the proper kind, with the coconutty rice.
• Raw geoduck, sliced paper-thin, eaten after being dunked in hot soup or congee.
• Flash stir-fried geoduck with ginger and green onion.
• Clams in black bean sauce.
• Pork ribs with bitter melon in black bean sauce.
• Oysters steamed with ginger, black beans, and green onion.
• Copper River King salmon.
• Rock cod.
• Char siu. But only the end bit that's just a little fatty and has the burnt edges.
• Real Peking duck, the kind where the fat is perfectly clear, you can read through the pancakes, and all you need is hoisin sauce and not that silly dish of sugar.
• Barbequed goose.
• Chicken feet.
• Fish intestines in egg.