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BRUCE'S FAVORITE FOODS
A Chinese scholar was once asked what it is Chinese like most: sex, gambling or food?
"That's a difficult question," he said. "It's hard to say if it's gambling
or food."
Bruce was no exception and, like James Brown, he used to eat some pretty funky stuff. In
Robert Clouse's bio of Bruce we found the following.. .
Bruce's brother, Robert, remembers how the two used to eat orange-colored chicken claws,
pig intestines and sea urchins found on the streets of Hong Kong.
Bruce used all the Chinese herbs and teas, chrysanthemum and ginseng being his favorites.
He used ginseng for its cleansing and aphrodisiac qualities. Bruce also believed in the
medicinal qualities of queen bee honey.
His wife Linda remembers him eating hot and spicy Korean food, gorging himself through
dish after dish, drenched in perspiration.
High on his list of favorite dishes were noodles and barbecued pork, raw squid and bird's
nest soup. Bruce also liked Japanese food, particularly sashimi. According to Van
Williams, who played The Green Hornet, Bruce loved exotic Chinese food.
Having said all that, Dan Inosanto counters that "oyster beef, beef rice and root
beer were Bruce Lee's favorite foods."
You figure it out.
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