Chinese Food

Tonight our landlord and his family took the three of us out for a welcome dinner at a local Chinese restaurant. The food is served “family style” and consisted of 12 courses. The food was good all in all – no Sesame Chicken or Egg Rolls, but not too bad nonetheless. We did recognize two of the courses – Sweet and Sour Pork and Watermelon.

One of the highlights included what we referred to as “shrimp on a stick” – which was the whole shrimp – head, skin, body, tail, etc. fried and mounted on a stick. Anne, who can't exactly be called an adventurous sort when it comes to dining, was a great sport. Juliet even took a big old juicy bite out of the shrimp head – though we don’t think she noticed the eye ball staring at her before she chowed down. One of the other courses included some form of “fish,” or so we thought. It wasn’t bad and when we asked Thomas (the landlord’s son-in-law) what it was, he said “I don’t know exactly what it is, but in China we call it a fish, however in North America, I think you would call it a worm.” Now if that’s not a statement that makes you want seconds, we don’t know what is.