Food

Another post based on a question I've been hearing repeatedly... What are we eating?

Hm... we get 3 meals a day free in the school canteen, 5 days a week. This seemed awesome at first. But now we see why it's not quite so awesome; it's not so good! We eat breakfast and lunch there, but are cooking a lot more, or going out for dinner.

Breakfast: I always have congee and a steamed bun. Congee is rice porridge; this one has red beans in it. It tastes slightly sweet. Matthew eats stuffed steamed buns; with sausage or veggies in them.

Lunch: Rice, and entree's. These change daily; although I normally stick with the same few. Bok choy, bamboo, or other veggies. Sometimes they serve a beef-stew kind of thing; baby potatoes, carrots, and beef. Matthew eats almost any of it. The meat entrees have a lot of bones in them; they just chop up the whole chicken, side of beef, fish, etc. Everything is really grisly and fatty, and I just can't do it! They also serve some "different" stuff... duck heads, eggs with baby chickies in them, tripe, chicken feet.

Dinner: If in the canteen, the same as lunch. Otherwise, we cook for ourselves or go out to eat!

What can we cook for ourselves? Here are the meals so far we've stuck by:

-Bok Choy, stirfried with bacon. Yum yum! We liked this before we came.
-Grilled cheese (the store sells american slices!)
-PB & J
-Pork steak and potatoes
-veggie stir fries
-ham and eggs

What about restaurant eating?
-KFC (yes, it's different from home. A lot of dark meat... and no macaroni and cheese!)
-SummerTown... a Chinese restaurant. FABULOUS. We went here for dinner with Spencer and Andy, a couple from Utah that teaches with us in the primary school. It's a "pointy restaurant", meaning that they have examples of the dishes set out, and we can point at the ones we want! My favorites are the noodles (stir-fried with cabbage, carrots, shrimp.. which I avoid), or the snowpeas with beef.
-Superbee's (PIZZA! We went here last night with Jarvis and Larissa, the other foriegn couple at our school). The pizza was really good, although there were some wierd ones; under one, the English read "Cooks the intestines, smokes the ham, onions, peppers". Oh, and Brazil trip throwback: CORN PIZZA!!!!
-The Dumpling restaurant (don't know the name..).. we went here and there was no english menu, and no pictures to point at! So we just took what the woman pointed to on the Chinese menu. It was alright; but I don't know that we'll go again.

So there you have it; also, there are snacks around. One woman who runs a little cart by the market loves us; we buy her flatbread all the time. There's candy and fruit everywhere. So we're not starving! :)

Happy late Easter, everyone; it's monday morning for us already. Back to work!