Food Experiments

Well, here is the video I promised!! This is a very short video of 3 15-year-old students at the Beijing Opera School - we just ran into them, and our tour guide asked them to sing a little something for us. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the whole thing, but you'll get the basic idea :)

Today's classes were uneventful. BUT for the first time today, I went and found lunch somewhere all by myself! Not that I tried anything new, I only went back to a place I had been before. It's just a one-woman shop, and all she makes is "egg pancakes" - I'm not sure what the Chinese name is. Basically, she scoops some dough onto a round griddle and spreads it out, then cracks an egg onto it and spreads that out. The pancake then gets flipped and she adds some spices, some veggies, some sauces, and if you want, she can also add some shrimp. Finally, she places a square of some sort of crunchy bread in the middle, and folds the pancake around it, places it in a bag, and there's your breakfast or lunch! It's very yummy, inexpensive (5 RMB - and that's only if you add the shrimp, otherwise it's 3.5), and great for on-the-go. 

For dinner, one of my friends and I went walking around to see what we could find that was inexpensive and different. We found a Korean bbq restaurant and got a dish called bibimbap. Basically, it comes in a very hot bowl, with rice at the bottom, and different veggies and meats separated out on top. Our was mostly veggies with some pork, and an egg in the center on top of everything else. You mix it all together, and add some hot sauce, and it makes a very filling dinner. For 2 dishes for the two of us it was 30 RMB - that's 5 U.S. dollars for 2 dishes, which would have cost $8 each in the U.S.

And that concludes my adventures for today :)