10-07-2019

 

Today was a fairly uneventful day, but I think it gave me the recharging I needed before school starts up again tomorrow.

Here is some cilantro (香菜) in the supermarket. I took a picture of it because my roommate doesn't like cilantro. She's got the lucky genes that make it taste like soap. She also told me a lot of Koreans have this experience, so cilantro isn't used often in Korean cuisine. 

And I cooked for the first time in China today, yay! I think the left looks like sweet potatoes or pumpkin but it's actually carrot. I just wasn't sure how to eat/cook it...so I just stir fried it in the leftover oil from the eggplant on the right. I was worried about how the eggplant would taste, but it was actually pretty good (by/for my standards)! So, victory, methinks. I would like to cook more, especially things like banana bread to give to people, but the dorm doesn't have ovens :( Just those plug-in burner things (I know they actually have a name but I'm blanking on it right now..).

I also don't have a pot yet, so I can't make soup. Not that I make much soup, but if I can find cornstarch at the market I would like to make egg drop soup. Mmm.

And I still don't have a rice cooker.

10-06-2019

 

Lunch with the roomie. The pictures on the wall are of the owner with foreign customers, haha. 

 

 骨头土豆豆角锅仔

Pork bones with potatoes, green beans, and noodles

 It was sooooooooooooooooooooo good

10-05-2019

 

Dinner: beef noodles 牛肉拉面 This was the small bowl 😮 (although I think the bowl was smaller than the picture makes it look)

 

Also bought this snack today. They are little mung bean flavored cakes. You can eat them out of the package or [put them in?] (preferably cold) water?? Anyways, I tried them plain, and they're actually pretty good! I was surprised because mung bean flavored products are pretty hit or miss for me. I was at a supermarket and saw them and thought they looked interesting, so I bought them (as you can imagine, that happens often..).

10-04-2019

 

Sushi for dinner with the roomie! featuring Japanese/weeb paraphernalia on the walls

10-03-2019

 

Wonton soup for breakfast 😊

10-02-2019

 

Went to the 'fun' mall again today. Here's a more fun picture of the inside.

10-01-2019

 

国庆节 celebration at Tiananmen Square in Beijing 北京市天安门广场

(also, check out the ancient TV in my dorm room!)