Every morning we get a breakfast buffet. The room comes with free breakfasts for only two people, so we have to pay 20 RMB (about $3) for a third one. Here are some photos of what we can choose from.
Steamed dumplings of different types. The most interesting are: a pumpkin dumpling, which I haven't tried yet but is shaped and colored to look just like a little orange pumpkin; a "mixed flour dumpling", which seems to be made out of rice flour (it is more glutinous in texture than regular wheat flour dumplings) and filled with spicy pickled vegetables; and a black rice cake.
There are always two different types of gruels. Today we had the normal rice gruel (rice cooked with excess water so that it ends up being soupy) and black rice gruel (I have no idea what this really is). On other days, we get a millet gruel, which resembles grits. I always have a couple of bowls of this with pick
Hot soybean milk and some other sweet soupy thing. I always have a bowl of the soybean milk. It is served without anything added; you can make it either sweet by adding sugar or salty by adding scallions and soy sauce. I always drink it plain.
Here are pickled vegetables that you eat with the rice gruel. In front are ordinary boiled eggs. Next to it is an empty bowl that usually holds small cakes of fermented tofu, which is also eaten (in small quantities) with the rice gruel. I also usually have half of a salted duck egg, too.
Here is the stuff I never take. On the lower level are salad ingredients (all raw so very dangerous!) and bowls of mayonnaise-like sauces. On the upper level is yogurt. Yogurt and milk have become quite popular, which is a little mysterious since most Chinese are supposed to be lactose intolerant.
Steamed dumplings of different types. The most interesting are: a pumpkin dumpling, which I haven't tried yet but is shaped and colored to look just like a little orange pumpkin; a "mixed flour dumpling", which seems to be made out of rice flour (it is more glutinous in texture than regular wheat flour dumplings) and filled with spicy pickled vegetables; and a black rice cake.
There are always two different types of gruels. Today we had the normal rice gruel (rice cooked with excess water so that it ends up being soupy) and black rice gruel (I have no idea what this really is). On other days, we get a millet gruel, which resembles grits. I always have a couple of bowls of this with pick
Hot soybean milk and some other sweet soupy thing. I always have a bowl of the soybean milk. It is served without anything added; you can make it either sweet by adding sugar or salty by adding scallions and soy sauce. I always drink it plain.
Here are pickled vegetables that you eat with the rice gruel. In front are ordinary boiled eggs. Next to it is an empty bowl that usually holds small cakes of fermented tofu, which is also eaten (in small quantities) with the rice gruel. I also usually have half of a salted duck egg, too.
Here is the stuff I never take. On the lower level are salad ingredients (all raw so very dangerous!) and bowls of mayonnaise-like sauces. On the upper level is yogurt. Yogurt and milk have become quite popular, which is a little mysterious since most Chinese are supposed to be lactose intolerant.
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