Lunch with the Students

I can basically order about 5 meals in China,

1.Tang Cu Li Ji - Sweet & Sour Chicken
2.Zha Mo Gu - Deep Fried Mushroom
3.Yu Xiang Rou Si- Pork in a Spicy Vegtable and Onion Sauce
4.Ji Rou Chow Bing - kind of like Chicken Chow Mein, but instead of noodles it is made with thin strips of pancake, with chicken, spring onion and other veg thrown in - GORGEOUS!
5.Gong Bao Ji Ding- Chicken in a spicy sauce with Cucumber and Nuts

These would either come with Rice - Me Fahn- or Fried Rice - Chow Me Fahn.

We have eaten a combination of these every day since we got here, and whilst they are all delicious, we have all grown a little tired of them. Occaisionally we venture off the beaten track and order randomly from the menu, but when we do that things like Donkey happen!

So we asked some of Daves students to take us to lunch to order us some new food that they thought us "foreigners" would like. Imagine our delight when Sweet and Sour Chicken turned up! The rest of the stuff was good though- we had some lettuce in a kind of oyster sauce with peppers (Suan La Ba Cai), some small chicken cuts in a spicy sauce with spring onion and green peppers (Hong Shao Ji Kuan), a dish of mixed vegetables (Sucai) and also another Chicken dish that was kind of soupy, and whilst nice wasn't the sort of thing we'd go for so didn't get them to write it down.