eating in china

are you hungry now??? do you want some chinese food???

well, these were my meals in china...almost all of them except breakfast since it was done buffet style in the hotel every morning. i hate the breakfast since i don't really like porridge, noodles, vegetables and fried rice for breakfast. their bread sucks. so dry. so i ended up going to the bakery to buy my own bread and had it with the 3-in-1 nescafe i brought along. coffee in the hotel sucked too.

according to the tour guide from malaysia who followed us, all our meals had been upgraded as we had about 12 to 13 dishes every time. urrghh....so many! luckily i did not suffer from any indigestion or food poisoning nor did i put on any weight.

i was the last to start eating since i waited for every dish to come up to take photo. haha...everyone could not eat till i had snapped a photo.

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there is a prawn dish here which they stir-fry with tea leaves.


the pork is really nice.
but not the fish....too many bones!

so white

a more unique restaurant and we were given samples of rice wine to drink from their special pot and cups. you can buy the pot and get free cups.

those cones here...they are man tou (steamed bun)


the rice dish is special in this meal, it is cooked with potato, and carrot. i like. not sure if butter is added.


a steamboat meal....which many were not used to and could not fill us. lots of mushrooms were added adn lots of veges too. the meat was added last and noodles. we ended up buying mcdonalds takeaway which was conveniently next door to eat in the bus on the way to da li from kunming.



this is kunming's noodles cross the bridge meal (gou chiao mi fern). not bad not bad.

these are all the accompanying dishes which came after the noodles. how to finish when the bowl of noodle is already so big??

on the bottom left, steamed corn, yam, potato and groundnut.

this was breakfast prepared by our butler in one of the 'mansions' we stayed in while in li jiang. i am not kidding. she brought milk to our room before we slept and cooked breakfast for us since 6a.m. anything you want, just call her.

these were the snacks you could find in the ancient city of li jiang (unesco world heritage). i only tried the fermented milk snack on the bottom left and hahah....luxurious mochi from japan. you can find these mochis in taiwan and hong kong and in malaysia too (pavilion) but it is much cheaper in china, so i must have! yummy.

my room mate- a 16-year-old teenager and i strolled the streets on our own and we ended up in haagen dazs in the shopping area of kun ming. he had not tried haagen dazs before so i brought him in and we sat there for an hour. both of us were obviously not shopping kakis although i did browse a lot.

oh how i loved the varieties of birkenstock and dr martens they have in the malls. how tempted i was to buy a pair of boots. then i reminded myself 'no! the tax here is super high!'. and that was what stopped me from taking out the credit card or trying a pair.

*just checked doc martens website (uk) and noticed that the prices in china are almost comparable to those in the uk. haiz.....