The past few days have mostly just involved getting acclimated to having class and homework everyday, but yesterday involved two huge breakthroughs in food! First, for breakfast, I was shown the best restaurant near campus. It costs 1.5 each for dumplings larger than a softball filled with meat. Two of them constitute a full meal and are absolutely delicious! Isaac showed me the place. Then, at lunch I managed to find by far the best food in the dinning hall on campus. At this particular station, you pick a kind of chicken and they add a tasty soup to it that has a ton of noodles and cilantro, and I was able to successfully order exactly what I wanted in a timely manner. Finally, I settled on the absolute best dessert offered. It’s just a flaky sesame bun with a slightly sweet white bean-paste center, but it rounds out any meal perfectly.
At night, I worked on building guanxi with a local bar. (Guanxi is a very important concept in China and holds a lot of sway. It’s like a combination of networking and relationships that is very situationally significant. My dad is one of the few Americans I know whith excellent guanxi.) The bartender's favorite beer is Hoegaarden and, like most places around here, has a buy one – get one free happy hour during the week.
This weekend, our class is taking a field trip to see Peking Opera with our Chinese culture professor, who is really funny – often not on purpose. It will probably be very interesting and very terrible all at the same time.
My assumption is that Hoegaarden is Isaac's favorite beer, as I prefer a good Bud product.
ReplyDeleteThe good thing about opera is that you can't understand a word they say no matter what language it is in. That's why it's so important to read the playbill for the story line and follow the visual cues.
-Dad
Fixed the ambiguity! It's the bartender's favorite beer. He has a lot of Chinese beer, one American beer, and Hoegaarden. Funny combination.
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