Squid

Dandelion tea and red raisin-a-likes. 10RMB for a bag of dandelions, 5 rmb for a bag of red raisin things, 5 rmb for sugar cubes. You can find it in just about any tea shop off the street.


Grilled squid... for about $1.75 USD. Anyone? Salzeriya, the best ghetto Italian restaurant in China. You can get a whole pizza and a bowl of pasta for about $4 USD.

Eat Up

Ginger Chicken: Buo Do Cantonese Restaurant. Wulumuqi Lu x AnFu Lu. 25RMB, comes with soup and tea.


Xiao long bao and some sort of duck organ noodle soup w/ duck blood. Near Rujin II Lu.


Suzhou's specialty: dried tofu. Bought 4 boxes for 12RMB at the train station.

Cooking at Home, Away from Home

I don't have a clue how to cook Chinese food. Plus I'm living in Shanghai so it'd probably be better if I just stepped outside my door and let them do their thing. But when I'm hungry as fuck at home, I trust the good ole tuna sandwich and chicken breast to satisfy my hunger. fuck snickers.


yeahhhhh boi! ain't nothin like chicken and potatoes after wildin out w/ MSG for the past year. to be honest, i probably make this meal 3-4 times a week.... i'm not into eating out everyday, especially after the amount of times i've had food poisoning here.


I can make the best tuna salad sandwich. seriously. try this recipe next time:

red onions (chopped)
celery (chopped)
gold raisins & dried cranberries (chopped)
salt & pepper
spicy/dijon mustard
mayo

whip that shit up, put some cheese on it, you are set. if you're in the states, buy only Cento tuna, nothing else compares for the price.

Hot Pot

You can't very well go to China and not eat hot pot. For those of you that don't know or never had hot pot, it is literally... where there is a huge ass pot in the middle of the table; you order huge dishes of uncooked veggies and meat and you drop them into it to cook. When it's ready, you pick them out and dip them in a sauce and munch down with your Suntory. People spend hours at hot pot dinners. Most birthdays are spent getting drunk with like 15 of your friends in a room eating shitloads of cuts of lamb and thin noodles. Sometimes... you end up shitting your pants from 5am-11am the next day b/c you're drunk and dont 'like to let the food cook all the way before you eat it .... as was the case with me.


Lamb is to hot pot as chocolate is to Hersheys.


Chowing downnnn! Johnny Tang and his brother, Jeremy, Boss and his girl.


This is also one of the best things... you get these monstrous bones with meat on them. and then suck out the bone marrow with a straw. Fucking rad. You feel like cavemen did.