Geng Le Dragon Eggs

While working on this recipe, I realized that I have been sadly neglecting LGBT info from the far east. It is important and very rich with characters. So this dish is dedicated to one such LGBT leader Geng Le. Please read a quick story about him after the recipe.

While the original recipe calls for ground pork, shrimp and crab, here we use a more forgiving supermarket list of pork sausage and crabmeat. A great tasting mound of meatballs in a dragon sauce served on ramen noodles, enjoy!

Ingredients

Dragon Sauce:

¾ cup white vinegar

½ cup soy sauce

½ cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

½ cup vegetable oil

½ cup chopped garlic

Meatballs:

• 1 lbs pork sausage
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• ½ tsp pepper
• ¼ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 large egg
• ½ cup panko bread crumbs
• 8 ounces crabmeat
• ½ cup green onions, finely diced

Directions

For the dragon eggs:
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
Mince the garlic and set aside. Slice the green onions for a garnish and set aside.

Open the sausages and place the loose pork in a large mixing bowl.

Add the minced garlic and green onions. Next pour in the breadcrumbs.

Add the egg.

In a small bowl mix the soy sauce, sugar, black pepper, red pepper flakes and ¼ cup water. Pour over and gently mix in.

Drain the crabmeat and work this in last. Set aside for 15 minutes.
This allows the bread crumbs to expand.

  

Lay out wax paper and make balls of meat mixture.

 
 Place on a parchment lined tray and bake for 18-22 minutes, or just until the center of each meatball is cooked.

While that is cooking:

 

For the dragon sauce: In a medium bowl: add the vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, red pepper flakes and Worcestershire and bring to a boil; set aside.

Cook ramen noodles according to package directions, but do not use the seasoning packet. Drain well.

Microwave some sugar snap peas to for a nice green side dish.

Transfer meatballs to a covered dish to keep warm.

Cover with dragon sauce and serve with bed of cooked ramen noodles.

Slice green onions for a garnish.

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Geng Le is an LGBT hero and leader you may never have heard of. A former policeman with an activist bent, his movie star looks are conservative and conventional.

Homosexuality was still illegal in China while he was on the force. Now, he's arguably one of the most important figures in the country's LGBT community.

During the 16 years Geng spent on the force he felt moments of deep depression. ‘I feared the times when I was asked questions like: “When will you get a girlfriend, when will you get married?”’ remembers Geng. ‘I felt like it was too hard to live this life with such a secret.’

“I once thought I was the only gay in the world,” he said. Textbooks and Chinese Internet sites told him that being gay is an illness. Some even recommended electroshock or aversion therapies. It wasn’t until he started to look through foreign websites that he realized he wasn’t alone in the world.

“That’s when I had the idea to create a website, to tell people what homosexuality is,” he said. His website danlan.org soon became a popular way for gay people to connect in China, and an emotional outlet for Geng Le. “It was the only place where I could be true to myself,” he said. 

By 2007, danlan.org had become China’s largest gay website. When his supervisors at the police bureau found out about the other work, Geng was forced to resign. His family was devastated. His friends and colleagues turned their backs.

Unsurprisingly, it was repeatedly shut down by authorities who claimed that it violated traditional moral principles.

Attempts to commercialize it proved as problematic as censorship. Brands who might have bought ads feared that associating with homosexuals would taint their image, so they boycotted the site.

However Geng’s mother, at least, is accepting of his boyfriend, who lives with him.

In 2012, his life took a different path. He met with China’s Premier Li Keqiang to discuss his work in HIV prevention. Their handshake was broadcast on Xinwen Lianbo, or News Simulcast, China’s prime time news program produced by the state-owned China Central Television (CCTV).
In the same year, he launched Blued. 

 
Blued, Geng’s new gay dating app, now has 15 million users, including around 12 million in China (Grindr has a total of five million users). Geng has used the brand to set up HIV testing stations for gay men, strengthening his relationship with the government, which has struggled to connect with much of the gay community and has recently placed an increased focus on treating and preventing the spread of the disease.

Blued, similar to popular foreign apps such as Grindr and Jack’d. Crucially, however, Blued allows users to connect their profiles to their Weixin and Weibo accounts. Roughly 70 per cent of its users are active on it at least once a month and a quarter log on everyday.

The state-run Xinhua news agency has stated that health authorities are concerned that the ‘broad use of the internet by gay and bisexual men in China… may exacerbate the country’s already high prevalence of HIV’. Geng – who uses his websites to promote safe sex – believes it is the opposite. Previously, gay men in China had little choice other than to search each other out in public toilets or parks. But this activity has decreased since online dating opened other avenues to meet new people.

Geng, now 40, has long dreamed of having his own child.
“Ever since I turned 35, I’ve wanted to become a father, just an original desire,” Geng said.
One year ago he finally had his son through surrogacy in California, where the practice is legal. Xiao Shu’s mother is an anonymous Caucasian egg donor.

“I want an exciting life, to prove that even if you are gay, you can be successful, you can be rich, you can have respect and approval, you can have social status,” he said, speaking in his sprawling office building in Beijing, where he oversees about 200 employees. "You can have dreams, and a happy life.” 
 

“I am apologetic that I can’t give Xiao Shu a perfect family,” he said. “But I will teach him to be strong, just like I have been. I will tell him, your father is gay, but he wanted to give you life. I have confidence, and responsibility, to give you a happy life. I hope you won’t blame me for having you. Maybe you will say, thank you, dad, for bringing me into this world.”