Happy Memorial Day, almost forgot the day as China doesn’t celebrate this one…LOL. Well this rainy weather is perfect for us to take Joni out to lunch. He went on a field trip yesterday to an exhibit of French artwork and showed us pictures.
I can’t say that our lunch out today was in honor of that so much as we took Joni, Chuck’s friend out to eat. Nie Rong Shi Jia is the same old Chinese food for Joni, but it is a treat for us. We had something’s that we tried before, like the mushrooms or black fungus, broccoli, spicy walnuts, rice and pork but we tried two dishes that we never had before. Nate and I lovers of noodles that we are tried the Chinese noodles more of a soup with scallions, sesame seeds, water chestnuts and of course noodles. Then we tried something that I have always heard about but never tried, Peking now Beijing Duck. This is a yummy must have if you visit China and I’m hoping that we can go to Beijing in August when a high school friend of Chuck’s will be in that town. If we make it I hope we go out for Beijing Duck, it is that good!
It is also a show all its own as a chef brings the duck to your table and after he shows it to you; he then carves samplings of the skin (golden crispy crunchiness) for your tasting. The waiter served a bowl of sugar with it and you dip the skin in the sugar and munch happily on it. If you like pork rinds you have not tasted anything until you do duck skin! After that the chef goes to work carving the bird and you are given two platters of duck meat that you can either dip in sugar and eat, dip in duck sauce and eat or put into the wrappers they serve with it and onions to make a ‘duck burrito’. Nate loved the idea that he was getting Mexican food ‘kind of’ in a Chinese restaurant. After the meat was carved off of it, the chef took what was left of the duck back to the kitchen where the carcass was boiled with ginger, scallions/onions and sesame seeds to create a duck soup. We ate like pigs and after we waddled back to our apartment we have been resting…and writing our blogs…
I can’t say that our lunch out today was in honor of that so much as we took Joni, Chuck’s friend out to eat. Nie Rong Shi Jia is the same old Chinese food for Joni, but it is a treat for us. We had something’s that we tried before, like the mushrooms or black fungus, broccoli, spicy walnuts, rice and pork but we tried two dishes that we never had before. Nate and I lovers of noodles that we are tried the Chinese noodles more of a soup with scallions, sesame seeds, water chestnuts and of course noodles. Then we tried something that I have always heard about but never tried, Peking now Beijing Duck. This is a yummy must have if you visit China and I’m hoping that we can go to Beijing in August when a high school friend of Chuck’s will be in that town. If we make it I hope we go out for Beijing Duck, it is that good!
It is also a show all its own as a chef brings the duck to your table and after he shows it to you; he then carves samplings of the skin (golden crispy crunchiness) for your tasting. The waiter served a bowl of sugar with it and you dip the skin in the sugar and munch happily on it. If you like pork rinds you have not tasted anything until you do duck skin! After that the chef goes to work carving the bird and you are given two platters of duck meat that you can either dip in sugar and eat, dip in duck sauce and eat or put into the wrappers they serve with it and onions to make a ‘duck burrito’. Nate loved the idea that he was getting Mexican food ‘kind of’ in a Chinese restaurant. After the meat was carved off of it, the chef took what was left of the duck back to the kitchen where the carcass was boiled with ginger, scallions/onions and sesame seeds to create a duck soup. We ate like pigs and after we waddled back to our apartment we have been resting…and writing our blogs…