Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Breakfast

Place: street outside the hotel

Pancakes (kind of like pitas), some with sugar, some with meat,
ginger, and other seasonings.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Dinner

Broad Sweet Potato noodles with beef curry sauce

Lunch

Chopped chicken (very little meat)
Wintermelon
Bitter melon 苦瓜
Fried potato slices
Fried scallion cakes
Soft doufugan
Bamboo (not as good as Anhui)
Deep-fried kernels of corn
Lotus root (sliced)
Fish
Tomato and egg soup
Watermelon
Peanuts in sweetened vinegar

Monday, November 2, 2009

Dinner

Small restaurant in Changsha

Egg and carrot (delicious)
Bok choy
Garlic beans and meat
Wintermelon? In spicy sauce
Mala (numbing and hot) tofu
Green beans and (deep fried?) eggplant

Also, the rice here seems to have longer grains, so there is a
fluffier, airier effect. Anhui rice is smaller and more pearly.

Lunch

Hotel in Changsha - lots of hot peppers (Hunanese food)!

Tofu with little green peppers that look like scallions if you're not
careful, but are actually extremely hot
Fish
Soup with greens and a few beans
Cauliflower, but seasoned a little differently than the Hui style 徽菜
that we're used to
Cold tree ears in sesame oil with some hot pepper
Cold carrots and scallions, julienned in some kind of dressing
Some kind of white colored bean that was almost like a bean sprout,
cooked with some kind of Chinese sausage
Deep-fried pastries with sweet taro filling
A couple chopped meat and pepper dishes
Green vegetable (bland and greasy, I thought)
Bitter melon
Taro in sauce

After lunch, I got to help make the order for tomorrow's lunch!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Dinner

Korean Food!

Vegetables, some mild spiciness, some meats, deep-fried vegetables,
noodles

Lunch

Sliced zazha noodles 刀削杂炸面 - noodles shaped by slicing pieces off
a block of dough; in broth with ground beef, scallions, fermented
black beans