What I’m Eating in China
I’m currently staying in an affordable 2 star hotel in Beijing, making the most out of my little travel budget remaining. There is a PIZZA HUT right below me, as well as a KFC. I couldn’t resist trying both. The pizza I ordered at PIZZA HUT was delicious, and completely satisfied my craving for cheese & good pizza. It was expensive compared to other Chinese food here, and small in size compared to pizzas in North America. My pizza contained baked Atlantic Salmon, octopus, cheese, and a mayonnaise/wasabi sauce. Not a typical combination, but I do recommend it! KFC was incredibly crowded, and I had to wait extra long since many Chinese people carry some sort of “I’m elegible to cut in front of you in line” I.D. card which they refuse to show to me. This happens in subways and other places too. Overall, I recommend PIZZA HUT over KFC when traveling in China.
For breakfast this morning, I went over to the local supermarket and picked up some items to satisfy my hunger in the mornings for the next few days. This included:
-2 bottles of juice (900ml each), Mango & Orange
-1 instant noodle bowl (for a late night hunger emergency)
-1 package of chicken & ham sausages, which was on sale
-1 jar of yogurt with fruit pieces (they have lots of varities of good yogurt here, which I need since I can’t drink the milk and cheese is very expensive, hard to find, or poor quality)
-1 bottle of sweet green tea (Check under the cap, you can win an extra bottle. I’ve quite lucky with this and have won 3 times already).
-sliced white bread (also on sale)
-peanut butter mixed with chocolate and/or some kind of nutella. (a nice treat and quick solution for satisfying my hunger/keeping me from being too skinny)
Altogether, this was about 55RMB. In Canadian dollars, that’s about $9.00. Reasonable?
Don’t worry, I’m not only eating fast food/western food. In fact, I’ve mostly been eating Chinese food (so much that I forgot most of the names of the dishes). Tonight I had a delicious steaming hot bowl of 红烧牛肉面。It’s basically sliced beef with tofu, some veggies, and noodles all in a bowl of tasty soup. As always, I asked for a non-spicy one. It was quite filling and the price was less than half of my morning grocery bill.
Roasted Beijing Duck was awesome and memorable, as to be expected. I had it with some pineapple this time, a modern fusion twist to the dish.
I’m going to go boil some water. I want it to be cool and drinkable before I leave tomorrow morning.
Peace from Beijing,
-A.Z.