Thursday, May 22, 2008

Hohhot: A Sample of Food

In case anyone's curious about what we've been eating, here is a list of foods that we ate on Tuesday night. The students and faculty from Inner Mongolia University's new anthropology school treated us to a banquet.

Delicious foods included the following: spicy noodles, cabbage salad with vinegar and peanuts, sweet-and-sour pork, chicken and onions, sliced eggplant in oil, beef and potatoes in a tomato-red sauce, three long brown fish in a hot pan, a large bunch of ribs from either sheep or lamb with a tasty dry dip of spices and ground-up peanuts, and white-dough dumplings of four different kinds.

Tea was prevalent at the restaurants in China, and we also tried yogurt (thinner and more liquid than U.S. varieties).

More food updates will come as more food is consumed. Yum!

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