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Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, October 19, 2007 - 7:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
From the CBS Web site:

The castaways dine on unusual Chinese delicacies, ranging from a chicken heart to a “thousand-year-old egg.” A castaway discovers the Hidden Immunity Idol, but the secret is blown when an unwelcome tribe member sees it in their possession. And later, one castaway wants to go to Tribal Council, even though he knows he won’t have the votes to survive.


Survivor Blows (with pix from Survivor Fever that I'm too lazy to bring over) has:

Looks like we see two distinct challenges. I would think that the eating challenge is the RC as JR, Todd, and Sherea are sitting out, and I would think that their biggest physical player, JR, would be participating in the IC.

So, I can deduce that the running through the dilapadated houses are the IC. First we see Courtney, JR, Sherea, and Todd running through a structure of some kind. Courtney, JR, and Sherea are seen entering, and they are all entering through different doors....if you look at them, you can see that. Todd seems to be running. Then outside we see shots of Eric and then James. Clearly James has some kind of board in his right hand...could it be a sign of some kind, or a clue, or a puzzle piece...whatever it is, I think that he's found it and could be returning to base?

Then we see the gross food challenge. Sitting out: Todd, Sherea, and JR. Courtney clearly not doing well. Denise doesn't look so well either...

Costacat
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Friday, October 19, 2007 - 7:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
From SurvivorFever:

Episode 6 Reward Challenge: "Search and Decode"
Survivors search through multiple rooms in old buildings for clues to answer puzzle (questions?). (Reward: "Ultimate bathroom experience") From "Day in the Life" video, Jeff Probst indicates that this challenge is a redo of a Survivor Borneo challenge.
(Survivor Borneo Reward Challenge: Abandoned Barracks: A nighttime romp through abandoned buildings, searching for survival items with the assistance of night-vision goggles.

Peih-Gee

PG

Jean-Robert

JR

Sherea (entering a room)

Sherea

Erik

Erik

James

James

Clue on wall?

clue

Episode 6 Immunity Challenge: "Name That Spoon"
Food eating challenge. Survivors dine on Chinese delicacies. The two tribes will face off one against one to see who can scarff down the food faster. Per the New Zealand Herald interview with Jeff Probst, the Survivors will eat such delicacies as baby turtles and balut (bird embryos)

Challenge site overview

challenge

Fei Long at left, Zhan Hu at right. Jeff Probst in foreground at podium stand with delicacies
Sherea, Todd, Jean-Robert sitting out on far left?

feilong

Harmless looking but what is inside? (Ed: looks like dim sum! :-))

dimsum

Bird embryos? (Ed: Isn't this baloots?)

embryos

Courney can't hold it down.

courtney

Denise vs James

dvj

IC Winners: Fei Long

Booted: Sherea (per DanieuBleu's spoilers)

sherea





And I tell you what... I SUPER seriously appreciate Ginger now!!! Yikes!!

Seamonkey
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Friday, October 19, 2007 - 7:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Good job, Costa!

Dang that balut looks ready to hatch..

(I must say I applaud the decision to give them all their swim wear! I was getting tired of seeing people in their undies or less.

Pamy
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Friday, October 19, 2007 - 7:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
thanks costa....i am curious how this boot will happen....if they stick to plan to lose challenge, what happens to make them win it and other team boots sherea

Seamonkey
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Friday, October 19, 2007 - 10:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Eeyores was opining in the general thread.. maybe it will be some sort of "last man standing" and James wins it for the team?

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, October 19, 2007 - 10:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I have been halfway joking that James has been carrying his team all season, and now we might see if he can actually win a challenge single-handed when the rest of the team is trying to lose.

Lexie_girl
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 7:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
la de da de dah...

There is a show on Food Network with some guy who goes around the world and eats the most disgusting food ever. I can't watch it because its gross. But about a week or so when I was flipping stations, he was in maybe Taiwan and he was eating 1,000 year-old-eggs and he said it was one of the most disgusting things he's ever eaten.



Costacat
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 8:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
From what I hear, they are seriously disgusting to us westerners but are considered a delicacy in Asian countries.

My mother's second husband was in the Navy during the Vietnam war era. I first learned about 'em in the early 70's. I just looked up the definition of "balut" on Wikipedia, and it's a slightly different description. Mom's ex told me they were fertilized eggs that were buried for some period of time, then dug up and eaten. Seriously gross.

Wikipedia says:

quote:

A Balut (Trứng vịt lộn or Hột vịt lộn in Vietnamese, Pong tea khon in Cambodian) is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled alive and eaten in the shell. They are considered delicacies of Asia and especially the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Popularly believed to be an aphrodisiac and considered a high-protein, hearty snack, balut are mostly sold by street vendors at night in the regions where they are available. They are often served with beer. The Filipino and Malay word balut (balot) roughly translates to mean "wrapped".



Check out the Wikipedia article for more information if you dare.

Also apparently, and I don't remember this, one of the challenges on Survivor Palau included baluts.

I think I'm going to go throw up now. (If I wasn't a vegetarian before, I sure would be now! And I'd never make it thru any of these challenges on Survivor. I'd be voted out at the next TC because of my refusal to participate!)

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 9:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alaginger a private message Print Post    
Hey Costacat ... thanks so much for getting this up and running. I'll be back home tomorrow evening, and then I can maybe do some additional pictures. Don't have my software on my sister's computer, so setting the pictures up from here is impossible.

However - I've been over to TDT and a synopsis of what that site is saying:

RC (Hunt) - Fei Long wins
Kinapped - Fei Long kidnaps James
(James finds hidden II)
IC (Gross Food) - Zhan Hu wins
Boot - Sherea (booted by Fei Long)

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
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Have safe trip home Ginger!!

still wonder how come they didnt throw challenge to vote out james..maybe they find out he has II and play hard to win, cuz they know if they lose one of the girls will go

Chy
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07-19-2003

Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
Ugh, I thought I'd posted earlier today talking about how delicious "Thousand-year-old-eggs" are?!?
Sorry if it ended up some where else?

Many of those foods are what I do eat, not the embryos though.
You know what else makes a big difference?? I won't be able to eat 1000 y.o. egg, heart, brain(chicken or pork, never monkey's!!) or any other thrilling organs without the condiments! Soy and sesame oil will be a must. Chinese Parsley, scallions, ginger or even garlic sprouts would be wonderful.
I guess it would be the same if you'd ask a calamari-eating person to forgo the sauce or batter they're used to eat it with.

Chy
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07-19-2003

Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 4:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
Ah! Lalalala ladita!
Pamy, that might be what happened!

So, as soon as James "re-unit" with ZH, he blurs out how they better watch it, since he'd gotten the Hii now?

I'm not sure if that's a good play by James. But this move helps his old alliance get rid of Sherea.

Wait! Some where on line, some one said James made a deal with some one not his mate who happened upon the fact that James owns the Hii .... Don't blame me for the language, all the spoilers are like this. :-)

Pamy
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Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
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i agree, it would be more fun if he blindsides them, lets them go to TC thinking they will vote him out and BAM! he presents the II LOL

Reader234
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Hallloooooooo!!!

I wonder if James is trying to hold onto the II until merge? Maybe he's figuring how to get to the finals - and maybe the producers worked around the girls strategy?

Alaginger
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alaginger a private message Print Post    
From the CBS Clues: "A castaway discovers the Hidden Immunity Idol, but the secret is blown when an unwelcome tribe member sees it in their possession."

If James has the hidden II, and one of the Zhan Hu tribe (either Erik, Jaime or PG) see it, they will realize they have to do everything possible to win the challenge this week. If all 3 of them vote for James and he has the II, then whoever he placed his vote for will be the goner. So, their idea of throwing the IC for this week, is "out-the-window" as a bad idea, and they will have to do anything and everything they can to win that gross food challenge. And, if they don't go to TC, James still has the II intact.

Actually, he is suppose to wind up with both of them, in case I haven't already spoiled that here.

Alaginger
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alaginger a private message Print Post    
Here's some pictures regarding the Hidden II.

This would be over at Fei Long. Obviously Todd has shared the information he has with his alliance partner Amanda, but note that Frosti from the original Zhan Hu tribe is with them during this search.
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The Hidden II at Fei Long
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Amanda is poking around above the II
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And Frosti is on top poking around above the roof.

Since we know that James winds up with this, do the comical trio find it and Todd gives it to James to use to save himself over at Zhan Hu? Or do the comical trio not find it, Todd shares the info with James, and James finds it? The spoiler I'm reading says James finds it.

Also, another pic showing a very disgruntled Amanda and Frosti during the IC (gross food challenge).
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Doesn't look too good for Fei Long at the IC.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
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wow I didnt know he gets both! how awesome and surprising he doesnt make final 4 then....can the same person use both?

I would love to see JAMES THROW challenge this week as payback for last week!!!! that would rock

Chy
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07-19-2003

Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
I read that, oh, hello first! Happy Sunday! :-)
Read it a long time ago, but don't have time to look for the source now....

I think I read that James was kidnapped after RC. The one where they'll have to search high and low in some ruin... You know the kidnapped ones has the sealed bamboo tube to give to some one of his choice on the winning tribe.
It'll be interesting to see how it goes down. <<Isn't some kidnapee supposed to be deprived of food this season? JP talked about this in one of his previews. It could be now. James could not take being hungry??>>

But somehow, James got to see the clues! This practice that all the past clues come with the present one benefits the latest clues readers. So the spoilers have it that James ended up with the Hii from FL camp! We know that the Hii is at the same place on ZH grounds! Of course James will get that in no time!

Those girls lost Aaron as a buffer. James and Aaron wouldn't have presented the Hiis together!?! I hope James laughs at them at their faces just like when they giggled all the way during, after the IC AND through the TC!!

Alaginger
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07-11-2002

Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 11:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alaginger a private message Print Post    
Hey Pamy..........according to the spoilers:

James doesn't also have both II's, but he fails to use either one when it is needed and gets the boot. They are calling it a "GRAVE" error (cause he is a grave-digger).
I would also like to see James get voted this week and then pull the II, but somebody sees him with the II and they manage to pull a Zhan-Hu win at the IC.

Uh......that's if the spoilers I'm reading are correct:
Anyway, here's your favorite part...the Insider stuff from the last voting where Aaron got the boot:
************************Episode 5 Insider
Transcribed by James Barber

Tribal Council

After throwing the Immunity Challenge, Zhan Hu is forced to attend Tribal Council. What do they have to say as they cast their votes?

Erik (Aaron): Sorry for the confusion, sorry for the lies. Today was a big mess, but I have to go with my two girls. That's all I've got in this game. I hope you understand.

Aaron (James): I wish I was sending all three of those home. It was good to do battle with you, boy.

Peih-Gee (Aaron with sad face): Aaron, this is purely strategic. I have a ton of respect for you. You're a true warrior in this game.

James ("P.G"): Because I stick with my original teammates. That's all I'm going with.

Jaime (Aaron): As you could say, we're frenemies (?).

(I'm assuming frenemies must be a cute little saying that Aaron must have used meaning we are friends and enemies, all at the same time.)

Chy
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07-19-2003

Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 12:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
Pamy, you know, your thoughts could be true again! Part of Costa's first post in this thread says: ... A castaway wants to go to TC .... James just might refuse to eat anything. <<< We can't see if he's eating in that cap. But I remember how "vigorously" Denise was at eating the things in front of her. But Amanda and Courtney probably just couldn't do it at all. And, not to be racist, :-), PG is from Hong Kong, she should do really well in this challenge. <<We always joke about how the Cantonese could eat "Anything with four legs but fornature; Anything that flys but aircraft; And Anything w/ two legs but humanbeings!!" :-)>>

Come to think of it, James might have thrown the RC as well! He couldn't stand the tigers and wanted to go spend some time with the Dragons, may be?

Chy
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07-19-2003

Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 12:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
Ginger! In your post stamped 10:47am today, are those caps from the same sequence? I should probably check with VG myself.

Notice the Chinese character in the first cap is not the same as the one where the Trios were poking at? For the record, the top one is Fung, wind, trend, fashion or (change of)luck... The one they're monkeying with is LU`, gains in measurable treasure, earnings, income, ...

Alaginger
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alaginger a private message Print Post    
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Hey Chy ... the pics were all grouped together over at Survivor Fever. The first 3 pics were the ones I picked up one from in my first post, and then I dropped down and picked up Amanda with Todd, and then I dropped down further and picked up Frosti working with them. However, here is a close-up of the II where you can see the stick Amanda is poking and you are right, it does look different than the ones that were at the beginning of the captions and I didn't notice that the symbol was different. This picture is the II that Amanda, Todd and Frosti are poking all around but not right on, and I have no idea where the other II in that first picture is located.

GOOD EYE!!!

Chy
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07-19-2003

Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 2:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
"Good Eye"? Haha! I just have been reading Chinese longer than you have, Ginger :-)!

In my first post in our Hii thread, you could see that there was four different Chinese characters all together. I have not seen enough to know if all four are on both camps. VG from SP was supposed to keep an eye out for that stuff. At this point, I could not remember what characters were seen from what camp ....

At this time it's mighty curious for me to know which Character ending up being the Hii.
Luck(Wind or change of Wind)? Fung
Measurable fortune? Lu`
Blessing more than money? Fu'
Or could it just be Spring(the season, but could mean new life)? Chueng

Can't wait for Thursday, but don't come too soon. I've got stuff due first! }

Pamy
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
greaat stuff girls!!!!! I really appreciate all you all do!

Alaginger
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 4:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alaginger a private message Print Post    
(LOL) Chy ... that's true, cause I have yet to start reading Chinese, and probably never will be able to. I seem to remember something over at Survivor Fever about the wording of the Hidden II plaques, so I'll see if I can find it and bring it over here.

Meanwhile, there are some new pics up:

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I think this picture of P.G. is outside the housing where the RC challenge takes place.

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Quote: Can this gravedigger bury the plot that is against him?

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(And the most telling pic)
James with Todd. James would not be there with Todd unless Fei Long won and kidnapped James, or Zhan Hu won and kidnapped Todd. According to spoilers James is the one kidnapped, and it sure looks like Todd is confiding something with James and James is very, very, very happy about it!