Tashi delay.

Forever a source of amusement to us (and because we have a secret admirer that is also very interested :) - we bring you more food photos :)

A typical Chinese breakfast - sloppy rice porridge (this one has a few mung beans added for extra flavour), pickles (pickled radish with chilli in this case) and deep fried twists of bread. We had 2 orders of the fried bread and the whole meal - for both of us - was only 4 Yuan! That is about 35p UK or just over 50 cents US!


One of our dishes in the Muslim area of Xi'an. This is thick hand cut noodles with green pepper, green beans, spring onion, chilli oil and a few token pieces of beef (already devoured by K at this point). Then we selected 2 plates from their selection of vegetables - green beans and snap peas (with a bit of seaweed on top)on one plate and cucumbers and cabbage on the other. We also had some bread that was reheated over the fire with some spices on the ouside, it was very similar to Cajun spices. This meal was amazingly delicious, it was the second time we had been there, the first time Julia took us :)




Now for the amazing variety of meat available at the grocery store :) They have an entire asile of packaged meat and then a section in the cold case and then the occasional end of aisle display of meat products!

The meat aisle, with some of the available "meat candies"




From the end of aisle display you had a choice of meat sticks (we see people eating these all the time!!! On the buses and trains especially)

...and this sausage "meats" every mountainbikers needs :-)


And from the cold case...some chocolate cheese (not meat, but still very strange :), some chicken feet and one of those flattened duck :)




Again, we laughed ourselves silly in the store, but it was all in good fun :)

Later!