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Day 2: Saturday, 25th May
Into Chinese Cuisine
Bacon slice with cooked egg and white toast for late breakfast at hotel.
The egg was boiled in some dark liquid, and seeping through some cracks in the shell made a marbling effect when peeled.
We went to a nearby restaurant as recommended by our hosts. The menu had pictures of the meals and descriptions in English, which made it easy to choose.
Grilled beef Beijing style; thinly sliced beef cooked with cumin and sesame seeds, coriander leaf and a very fine green vegetable. Delicious and fresh.
Fried cabbage with noodles; served on a sizzling dish with egg on the base, topped with glass noodles, and shredded cabbage. Cooked with garlic and pork fat chunks, and it was very oily, but very tasty.
Dumplings; meat vegetable filled dumplings streamed. Served with soy sauce. Yummy and filling.
Dinner was at the neighbouring hutong. No English menu but the house host recommended certain dishes for us. Noodles and more noodles, one smokey dried chilli flavour ...
one beef and vegetable packed with loads of flavour ...
one with a simple tomato soup, mostly for the kids.
They also served us a sweet soup with egg and rice. Interesting flavour, not unpleasant, but certainly not to our palette.
On the way home we bought some chicken steamed buns (bots) at what we thought was a reasonable price, ¥4, until we talked to our house host. They also mentioned that streamed buns are normally vegetarian; either tofu, eggplant or other? Who knows what these ones were?
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