Chinese Food
The One Christmas Tradition China gets Right
So here we are, a week away from Christmas, and here in China things are not “beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” The weather is bitterly cold at night, no one has that festive feeling, and only a few stores have anything resembling Christmas decorations (and a few of them keep it up all &hellip Continue reading
New in the Snack Aisle
I’m used to seeing some strange flavored snacks, usually put out by some obscure Chinese snack company. But I was surprised to see this new flavor hit the school store. Cheese Lobster Flavor. My favorite part is the really relaxed lobster, who seems way to excited to have velvetta poured all over him. I’m not &hellip Continue reading
Hitting up the Food Festival
Every year the “International Food Festival” hits up our campus. You know the type, food stalls filled with fatty, grilled and sweet food, a few games and some terrible rock music blaring non-stop. Every year we go, buy some overpriced crappy food and swear we’ll never go again. Until the next year comes. As &hellip Continue reading
Pomelo – Totally Worth the Effort
Every year at about this time we see these huge citrusy things showing up on the fruit stands. Some of them have wrappers with the word “grapefruit” on it, and I’ve never really been interested in trying them. Not a big grapefruit fan. But a few weeks ago I was sick, and the students Ryan &hellip Continue reading
Horrors in the Lunch Line
Sometimes I’m busy and just don’t want to deal with going to a restaurant and wasting my lunch break. So I eat at the school cafeteria. The quality is just as dismal as you might think (lukewarm food, prison issue metal trays) but they tend to have a wide variety of dishes and it’s quick &hellip Continue reading
Pizza Fail
To get good pizza in China is pretty hard. Outside of the major cities, finding pizza is difficult, and when you do find it, it’s just not quite right. Pizza Hut is a big chain here in China, but it is for the Chinese market and has strange toppings, hardly and cheese, and a thick, &hellip Continue reading
The Cutest Watermelon in the World
“Is that a real watermelon,” I wondered at the fruit shop. “It’s so cute!” So i had to buy it and take it home. It was indeed a tiny watermelon, and tasted just as good as the normal big ones. I always thought that American loved watermelon the most. After all, you can’t have a &hellip Continue reading
Mooncake Madness
Today is Mid-Autumn Festival in China, an official government holiday. (Which means no classes today. Yay!) I wrote about the meaning of the holiday my first year here, but I want to mention one thing this year: mooncakes. Mooncakes to Mid-Autumn festival is like candy corn to Halloween, or jelly beans to Easter. Basically, the holiday &hellip Continue reading
Eating History: Peking Duck and Liqun Restaurant
Even for budget travelers like ourselves, you can’t go toBeijingwithout tasting a little of the local specialty: Peking duck. A good restaurant can set you back several hundred kuai (a small fortune to us) but it’s totally worth it. Our favorite duck restaurant is called Liqun, a small restaurant tucked into a hutong, &hellip Continue reading
Street Food of Pingyao
You can’t go far in the tiny ancient city of Pingyao without hearing the street cry of a food vendor, and more often then not, Ryan and I would answer that call. Pingyao had some of the most unique street food I had never seen before, much of it bread based (our fav) so we &hellip Continue reading
