He-Gong means “effort together” … (Once Willie finally leaves Sha-Guo we can forget about the weirdness of how they all speak English but people and places have Mandarin names. V^(oo)^;V)
Ju-Tsang works in quality control, spot checking cans for any flaws. Hai-Long works at the cookers, loading carts of open cans into huge cookers where the fish is boiled. That’s how he got all his new muscles since last year!
The choice of dishes is inspired by what Willie has studied about traditional local medicine, specifically what you should eat to counteract overexertion, cold and fatigue.
I recently discovered that there exists something like cardboard model ship kits. And that there exists a kit for a Chebec. Which would be quite easy to modify to look just like the Eagle Ray. Hmmm. (Here is some crazy German guy who has written an extremely detailed photo report on how he built the Chebec cardboard model kit.)
