Food

Food in China. Nothing like the UK! Eateries aren’t as up market as back home, but they have much more character and charm. I like to look at the dirt while I eat. Honestly, not being sarcastic. They are usually small building, not much more than 4 walls, a few steel tables and miniature stools. The kitchen is sometimes located outside the building, the front or the back and that’s where not only the chefs have to stand all day and cook, but also where the dishwasher has to wash all her dishes in the freezing cold. 

OMG! I FOUND SOMETHING LIKE POTATO BREAD!

The local supermarket usually provides us with some of the foods from home that Chinese people just never eat. Namely, breakfast cereal. They don’t have it at all, except in one French supermarket that carries really expensive imported cereal which we cant afford, like a small box of Kelloggs corn flakes for £5…don’t think so! But they do have small bags of nestle cereal for about 70p. Unfortunately, I think we’ve bought all the cereal they have! So no, no breakfast cereal! We are having to find alternative breakfasts. Recently I have taken to egg and spring onion wraps from street carts, which we were warned to avoid eating from cause they have nowhere to was their hangs etc. but what the hell. Bit of food poisoning never killed no one… They are like pancakes with an egg broken into the middle and mixed with a bunch of veg and herbs and then to top it off a long stick of fried bread is put in the middle and rolled up. All for only 30p! Bargain! The women how own the cart love us and laugh that we ask them to go easy on the chili! 

Recently I’ve become aquainted with fish soup that literally has half a fish in a big bowl of soup. Which half of the fish? The face half! And they eat the face, the whole face! It’s eyes, it’s lips its gills. Gross. I’m lucky being vegetarian! Nicola is not. 

The supermarket next to our studio sells foods like warm corn on the cob and bread buns filled with meat. Good snacks.