I think it's good that McDonald's and other fast food restaurants offer quasi-healthy alternatives for their kids' meals. Here in China that alternative is CORN. The Chinese love their corn--you can get a dish of corn just about anywhere. Right now you can get corn by the side of the road, too.
Or right smack dab on the road, for that matter. This seems to me to be a bit Tanzanian--except there it'd be eaten by chickens, goats, cows, and donkeys and stolen by everyone else. This is my twice-daily agricultural experience pedaling back and forth to work. Gee, if they sold something fried on a stick, I could pretend I was at the State Fair! In the evening people set up little tents to watch over their stash at night. It's completely covering one of the lanes, making car dodging a bit more exciting and you have to look carefully--there are pieces of concrete and rocks along the edge--serious biking obstacles!
On a little more cosmopolitan note...
The American Chamber of Commerce's fundraiser theme was "Thirty years of American Music" covering the 50's, 60's, and 70's. What could be more American than a burger? What could be cuter than a teensy-weensy burger? What could make it more un-American than using foie gras instead of the eponymous burger?! Actually they weren't too bad, especially when accompanied by a glass of wine!
I'm starting to groove on sushi--nothing too weird, though. This is Korean sushi, called kimbob. Maybe it's got a red-necky cousin named Jim Bob. It's one of those where you really can't identify what the little bits in it are, but all together it is sooooooo good! Add a bit of wasabi and it's a great lunch.
This little gem might just be the best thing I've eaten in China. Or maybe anywhere. It's what the Chinese should wake up and make moon cakes out of. I'm not a huge dessert fan, but I love lemon anything--and it is absolutely perfect (and rare) to have the tartness and sweetness in absolute perfect balance and harmony. Maybe it's that yin/yang thing here, I don't know. All I know is that it showed up in the dessert case at school today and I ate 3. That's right, three. A trifecta of pure delight.
They are pretty little, though.
Finally, it's not food-related, although we did eat while wearing our fancy-schmancy outfits. Mark is sporting a custom-made tuxedo (can you believe it?) on our way to the fundraiser this weekend. It looked great--it's actually very rare to have a picture of both of us together and, to top it off, we are both clean, smiling, and facing the camera at the same time. It's best to capture those fleeting moments, eh?
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