Okay, so I've been missing my food posts for quite sometime now. Been busy and therefore too lazy to prepare the food photos.
Anyway, as promised in my other photo blog, my next post about my Beijing trip after the sights and the people will be the FOOD!
(pls see here - http://nicholeisalazartravel.blogspot.com/2012/06/street-life-beijing.html)
The three of us have no idea where to eat exactly after our trip to the Great Wall. It's a good thing there is a night food market near where we stayed at Wangfujing street.
Street foods are available from dimsums and dumplings to the more exotic fried scorpion and fried ice cream. But did I try them? I chickened out! hahaha. See the fried ice cream in the below pic?
Cheers to our adventure for the day on the Great Wall.
A bucket of rice.
This pork is tender, lacks flavor and quite fatty. But my...it looks good! The rice can compensate for what's lacking in flavor though. I would love to eat some more, BUT...
Pork spareribs, with slices of chili, peanuts and sprinkled with sesame seeds. Spicy the way I like it. A perfect "pulutan".
Finally, the Peking Duck! The ingredients, nothing unusual - hoisin sauce and some veggies. They are wrapped together with the duck's meat in a Chinese pancake skin and eaten together.
But what's unusual for me is the duck's roasted skin is eaten with white sugar. It wasn't bad, but it's just that I was expecting a different taste when I eat roasted duck. Raw sweetness and the texture of sugar would be the least of my reckoning. Mixing sugar with some oily duck skin is something I won't be craving for in the near future.
And the star of our meal. Not the best, but made us all happy to end a tiring day.
Although we didn't understand a word they said, the waiters are kind enough to show us how to eat the food we've ordered. We
just signify at the picture in the menu, a little bit of pointing to
the food ordered in the nearby tables, and they take care of the rest.
Some dessert. I am not sure what they are called in Chinese but we call them Buchi in the Philippines. Sticky rice balls filled with sweet bean paste, rolled in sesame seeds and deep fried to form a crunchy crust. All's well at the end of the day.
Our food adventure did not end here. Until my next post ;-)
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