One street up from my school is a "food street." Every few feet is another grill attached to the back of a bicycle or a tarp on the ground with produce or a kitchen/scooter contraption that will make you a noodle bowl on the spot with the meats and veggies of your choice.
While this is going on on the actual street - along with pedestrians shopping, mixed in with the normal two-way traffic of cars and scooters, interfered with by the "every-which-way" of normal bike traffic - the tiny store fronts behind them offer quite the plethora of goods and services. There are a ton of restaurants that have two tables inside. There's a soy sauce store that has earthenware jars and urns of every size filled with different soy sauces. Is it weird that the jars kinda reminded me of Egyptian burial jars?? Except that the man would open the top and ladle out the soy sauce into the waiting bottle. There was also a store selling live fish out of little basins on the ground. You could pick which one you wanted, watch the woman expertly remove the head of this chosen fishy, and take your plastic baggy of fish to a nearby food vendor for a quick meal.
Mark and I were not so adventurous.
Maybe on our second trip down this street.
We actually didn't make it too far because it was so overwhelming, all the things to see, vendors shouting their products, and interesting smells with each step.
We opted for a quick grill of veggies, tofu, mystery sausage, mystery meat, and some unknown orange lumps (turned out to be a glutinous, sticky, sweet bread). Just enough for a light dinner. All this for 8 RMB, or about $1.35.
Here she is! (And you can see the soy sauce shop behind her)
And hey! Even better news: no food poisoning! Yay!!
Also, in case you were wondering, this is what our soda cans look like here:
Pull tabs! This was taken at a Korean BBQ. It left us to sticky-fingered to take pictures. :o)
Can't wait to take you fooding!
must master making dumplings ;)
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