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The Fat Life in Xiamen

Posted By Becky Ances Posted on April 13, 2015
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So I wrote about the fit life in Xiamen and how my days are filled with sports and active things. And the logical conclusion to all of this is that I would be super skinny and fit. But that is not at all true because of the other half of my life.

I am fortunate enough to call some amazing people my friends. One is head pastry chef at a French patisserie. Another is a manager at a French bakery. A third imports fancy goods from Spain. Even my friends who aren’t working directly for food companies are foodies. (The benefits of having a mostly European and Chinese friend group.) In fact every week we have a homemade dinner at someone’s house where we eat like kings.

Clemente makes amazing cakes.
Clement makes amazing cakes.
My friend Adam. When I want something he saves it for me because they sell out often. So yeah, I got a bread guy. This is a fresh baguette just out of the over. I tore into it right then and the crust was crisp while the inside was all warm and soft.
A recent beach picnic. We had potato salad, baguettes, Spanish omelettes, veggie and chicken skewers and small cakes for dessert.
Spanish sauage, ham and cheese with fresh french bread and chinese tomatoes.
Spanish sausage, ham and cheese with fresh french bread and Chinese tomatoes. This was just the appetizer to dinner….
…then this was our dessert.

I guess you could say we play hard and eat harder. (Not a lot of working hard, which is okay by me.) Birthdays are celebrated by 30 people for dinner, and frisbee practice is followed by a European sandwich with ham, Dijon mustard on a fresh baguette. Even my neighbor Will regularly makes homemade pizza and invites me over for a piece or two (or three or four or five.)

Rebecca and I after frisbee practice visiting out friend and rewarding ourselves with a delicious sandwich.
Homemade Pizza! *drool*

Also, we go out to eat a lot. Xiamen has a much better foreign food scene than Hangzhou with dozens of foreign restaurants owned and operated by foreigners. Not the usual “foreign style” food but legit amazing foreign food at very reasonable prices.

Last Monday found us at the F Bistro, and amazing French restaurant where we got the steak tartare. Other recent international places have been Indian, Greek, American and German.
Last Monday found us at the F Bistro, and amazing French restaurant where we got the steak tartare. Other recent international places have been Indian, Greek, American and German.

Add that with the fact I still write 3 days a week, at cafe’s, where I have some food or snacks, and you’ll see why I’m not losing weight at all despite being so active. But you won’t hear me complaining! Not while there are baguettes, sausages and cakes to be eaten!

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5 Comments

  1. Suigetsu
    April 13, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    I like how that guy photobombed you with that cheesy “I’m handsome” pose in one of your pictures. Heh…

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  2. becky
    April 14, 2015 at 8:28 pm

    Haha, yeah! Tricky guy….

    Reply
  3. Nicki Chen
    April 14, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    Mouthwatering food and friends to share it with you: What could be better?!

    Reply
  4. Anite
    April 21, 2015 at 1:35 am

    ClementE ahaha such a nice name :p

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  5. Becky
    April 28, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    I was going off pronunciation Anita, hahaha. Damn your tricky french pronunciation. (I fixed it.)

    Reply

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