And one day, while hiking through the mountains, we came across this woman washing these huge vegetables in a stream. What kind of veggies? I haven't a clue.
Everywhere we went, there was corn. Corn hanging from buildings...
And corn ears being shucked by a local farmer....
Was this corn for the pigs or for human consumption? We never found out. But every little restaurant we went to had fresh food which was prepared when we ordered it...
And of course, there were some restaurants we avoided...(if you can read the sign, you'll know why!)
Congee was prepared on the streets the way pho is available everywhere in Vietnam...
And thank God we didn't have to live without chili!!!
It was definitely fall. You didn't have to be on the streets of Manhattan to smell the chestnuts..
But you knew you weren't in Manhattan when you saw the sugar cane...
China is a food lover's paradise. It is a photographer's paradise. It's also a high tech and high fashion mecca. There's so much to say about it that I obviously cannot say it all in one post. But I'll leave you with one thought. Consider this:Beijing is the size of Belgium.
And that's just the capital. One city.
Nothing in China is on a small scale....
To be continued....
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Very nice culinary travelogue, Toni. Even though there are enough Chinese ingredients that I can't/won't eat, there are just as many wonderful discoveries as vastly varied as the country's far corners. That red chile paste alone is a marvel; I'll bet it's got its own distinctive flavor - wonder what variety of pepper they use - not Hatch, that's for sure. ; )
Whatever the variety is, it's different than what we have here. I don't know why, but you can eat a dish there that sounds pretty similar to what you get here, but it tastes vastly different. But I loved the food!!!!
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