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Re: A Week in Den Haag

Michel Böhms — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:51:18 -0000

Hi Kendall,

Guess she said "Gamba", meaning a chinese variant of shrimps ....

cheers Michel

Re: A Week in Den Haag

Kendall — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:19:34 -0000

I'm not sure which word she was using ("gamboa" is my phonetic rendering of my memory of what she said), but I do know that what was on my plate were ordinary shrimp; we don't really use the word "prawn" that much in food vocabulary in American English. :>

Re: A Week in Den Haag

Damian — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:06:20 -0000

My server—new: her third night—at Spijs insisted that a “gamboa” was not a “shrimp”, in English

I think she's right, I think they're prawns.