McCoy’s Food Corner: Cafeteria Food
I’ve decided, actually it was probably about a week ago, back when we didn’t have internet, that I wanted to try to do a weekly post about different foods in China, with a Chinese vocabulary section in it. I’m going to start taking pictures and stuff now that I know I’m going to do this, so get excited for that. However for the first week I’m just going to give you a normal post.
Vocabulary words for the week: 啤酒 pi jiu – beer
冷水 bing shui – cold water
(I’ll put the tones in there later when I figure out how but for now I’m not going to)
These words were very dear to Anderson and I upon our arrival, because we wanted cold water and also beers. See the Chinese have a habit of drinking boiling hot water (probably to kill the bacteria), but being from America we expect our water to be cold. Anyway back to actual food post.
So I found out that they are going to feed me at my school, which is pretty nice, because I can save money by not paying for lunch. I also found out that cafeteria food is actually not that bad. Monday was rice, vegetables, and pork; Tuesday was rice, a vegetable, and spare ribs; Wednesday rice, vegetables, and chicken; and Thursday rice, vegetable, fish; and Friday was rice a vegetable and chicken wings.
Are you sensing a pattern? Yup that’s right, rice meat and some sort of random vegetable. It’s actually very good though and they give you a lot of food, so I’m not complaining. The kids are also fed the same thing as the adults for lunch but they also get breakfast and dinner, which I find to be kind of odd.
The other problem is that they are fed the same thing for breakfast and dinner. It’s always a soup that has tofu in it for breakfast and something rather similar with rice for dinner. It seems like it would be pretty boring, and it’s also weird that they are fed all 3 meals, but hey, it’s China and they aren’t starving in the fields like in the past so they deal with it.
Anyway my food corner will be better when I start incorporating pictures and get into more interesting foods. While I’m still trying to get settled and on a real schedule I’ve been eating out of the school and the convenient store downstairs. Hopefully this week I’ll start exploring the food more in depth.
