Chinese Socialist Omelet

Some writing are just so good that I cannot resist admiring, and in this case, chuckling over and then appropriating them.

Such as those by Kenneth Lieberthal when he wrote about Chinese politics during the period 1956-57, From Success to Crisis. (Kenneth Liberthal, "Governing China From Revolution Through Reform).

He wrote: "The new Beijing elite may have broken a lot of eggs to make their socialist omelet, but numerous Chinese found this dish far more palatable than the bitterness they had been forced to eat for many years. In Mao Zedong's own words, China had "stood up" internationally and had recaptured a sense of unity under an ideologically strong government at home."

Love the idea of a socialist omelet! Though perhaps in this case it might be more appropriate to speak of breaking lots of eggs to make a Chinese pancake, or a Hong Kong-style "tarn tart" (蛋撻, or egg tart)?

Speaking of which, I really miss the melt-in-your-mouth Portuguese-style egg tarts popular in Hong Kong and Macau in the late 90s. Are they still sold everywhere in those two Special Administrative Regions these days?