Well while China celebrates New Year all around us we had the mundane task of grocery shopping. It was great fun to see the back to school displays up, in the states we usually don’t have that displayed after our winter vacation. We saw lots of neat kitchen items and after Chuck and I watched a cooking show at the hotel yesterday we were looking for all kinds of cooking gear. I found some more writing notebooks and erasers that I will put to good use with my own lessons getting back on track. I have spent this time working on the characters that I have learned and remembering what they stand for and what they are called and I have also started my writing lessons and am fully enjoying them!
Today in Vanguard Supermarket (超市) we saw a lady peeling a pineapple, peeling may not be the correct word, she was shaving the outer skin and the thing I found amazing is that she got the skin and left the pineapple flesh on the pineapple. I didn’t take her picture because she had a rather large knife and I didn’t want her to get distracted and miss while she was cutting. Chuck found fried rice in the prepared food section. Unlike when you get fried rice in the states, this was prepared for you as you stood there. The rice mixture (rice, eggs, meat, carrot, onion) was already prepared but what was added was a handful of bean sprouts and all was put on the griddle and fried up to order. It tasted like the fried rice we would get in the states with the only exception that it wasn’t as dark in color and I’m fairly certain that is because American Chinese food has lots more sauce on it than real Chinese food here in China has.
Today in Vanguard Supermarket (超市) we saw a lady peeling a pineapple, peeling may not be the correct word, she was shaving the outer skin and the thing I found amazing is that she got the skin and left the pineapple flesh on the pineapple. I didn’t take her picture because she had a rather large knife and I didn’t want her to get distracted and miss while she was cutting. Chuck found fried rice in the prepared food section. Unlike when you get fried rice in the states, this was prepared for you as you stood there. The rice mixture (rice, eggs, meat, carrot, onion) was already prepared but what was added was a handful of bean sprouts and all was put on the griddle and fried up to order. It tasted like the fried rice we would get in the states with the only exception that it wasn’t as dark in color and I’m fairly certain that is because American Chinese food has lots more sauce on it than real Chinese food here in China has.