This past week has kept us busy with school related events and preparations for the start of the year. It’s a whirlwind of newness, as we adjust to a new city, a new school, new curriculum, new teaching positions, new language, new weather patterns, new smells, new sounds, new stores, new people, new foods… and the list goes on and on. Daily life is very different than it is been in the past, as our transition to China has been completely unique and dissimilar to our first move overseas to Dubai. For the most part, we are adjusting well to all this “newness.” We are especially enjoying many of the new and different foods we’ve been experiencing. A few days ago a group of the lower school teachers ventured out to a tiny noodle shop near campus. The restaurant is run by an ethnic minority group from western China, known as Uyghur’s. It is easy to spot their restaurants, as the signs are written in both Chinese and Arabic. These restaurants are simple, hole-in-the-wall type places, with long menu-covered tables, rickety metal stools, and photographs of the dishes plastered to the walls. We’ve now been to two of these restaurants are were very pleased with the quality of the food, and even more pleased with the prices! The most fascinating part of the dining experience is watching the cooks make the noodles. The dough is rolled, twisted, and stretched by hand. Now that I have my lovely new iphone, I was able to film the process at lunch the other day. It is pretty amazing, as you can see…
Here was my freshly prepared lunch: stretched noodles with egg and vegetables. Yum! AND, it only cost 9RMB ($1.38).
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