“Bao cai ming 报菜名” [Running through the Menu]
Li Boxiang 李伯祥 & Du Guozhi 杜国芝
Crosstalks
Story Summary
A brilliantly tongue-twisting performance of endless names of Chinese dishes. The context of this xiangsheng revolves around two friends who bump into each other. One of the performers inadvertently insults the other and, to make amends, he says that he will treat him to dinner. In the end, after reciting in tongue-twisting speed the names of all the dishes he will order, it turns out that he has no money!
