Post #7 FOOD

The first of what I think might become quite a collection of Chinglish signs...

            Food is always very important to get right and a big issue for me as I carve out a life here. 
                 
                       One is warned off the street food (or what is called in Mexico "hole in the walls"). 

                Here is a picture of a kitchen in the back alley of an inside medium quality restaurant:

 

 

The Chinese are funny:  so much of their food is "plastic food" heavily processed and preserved crap, but they also love the polar opposite.  They adore fresh seafood (often it is brought live to your table if you have a little hotpot to cook it in).  Here is the seafood corner of quite an upmarket restaurant where you literally choose your meal:

 

Benson and I had a fun meal in Shanghai at a hotpot restaurant.  Our bowls included an egg and some really interesting veg (see also the fat-streaked meat in front):

 

We have a feral dog and cat population in several of the abandoned buildings on the school site.

Dog is on the menu at one of the student restaurants.

 

I am signing off with some more street food:

                                                              Cheers for now, Karen