10 things to eat

This story was posted under the categories: Big Asia Trip, China, Food & Drinks

  As you’ve read, the weather turned for the worse since we left Xi’an and we had to spend a couple of days in the rain. Luckily for me, the one thing you can do when it rains, is eat and drink! Join me for a little tour around the rainy south-west of China.

To start with, there is this thing called hotpot. A Mongolian dish where you are presented with a bowl of bouillon and you are supposed to throw food in it. Not unlike our own fondue, but without the grease. There’s different styles and we’ve tried both the “poor” variant (which involves cooking some disgusting sausages, noodles, eggs, fish, grease and lettuce) and the buffet format, which offered a variaty of over 50 ingredients (including sliced mouton, surumi, entire fish, etc). All of this for a mere 38 Yuan per person (approx 4 EUR).

   

But the rainy streets of Lijiang just kept coming up with new wonderful dishes. How about this pancake on a stick? Or yummy, made-on-the-spot ginger candy?

  

Shangri-La, being closer to the Tibetan border, offered another range of dishes, from which we tried the Chefs Pizza at Kevins Inn (with Yak meat and local goat cheese), the Naxi sandwich (Ham, goat cheese and eggs) and Momos (same as dumplings) filled with Yak meat. Mjammie!

 

As it’s colder up there, Ine also tried something special by ordering a hot coke (yes coke, not choco) with ginger. Not as bad as it sounds!

Back South, we indulged in the delights of Guiyang: chili potato chips and on the street buffet for 7 Yuan (less than 1 Euro . As you have to be careful when eating from street stalls, we decided to wash away the bacteria with some alcohol: a small bottle of ricewine (also known to the Japanese as Sake) for 3 Yuan… we could get drunk on that