Sunday before we picked up Nora (who we call Waun Waun) (her Chinese name which is spelled Huan Huan) (we aren’t sure how to switch over to Nora. She does answer to Waun Waun so that is what we are going with for now 🙂 ) we went to a haggle market. They sell all kinds of food, goods, clothes and trinkets. They ask high prices and you are to go back and forth on the price all done in yen (Chinese money). We were told to go down 70 percent of the asking price but we aren’t the best hagglers, plus we are trying to convert they yen price to dollars so it can get confusing when you are haggling. Clara refuses to haggle. She just wants to give them the first price they ask.
I knew the food here would be different but I had no idea how far from American food this would be. I have not seen one fortune cookie or an egg roll yet. Brad tried to go to Pizza Hut and get a pizza one night. It is a little tricky when the menu is in all Chinese. Pictures are our friends! The closest to a regular pizza he could find was duck. He didn’t tell us what the “pepperoni” was on the pizza until we were almost done. So we tried duck pizza. It was yummy. The haggle market also had some very unusual treats. Fried crab on a stick, fried squid on a stick and lots of nuts, dates and fruit. Dragon fruit, pomegranate, jack fruit, mangoes, agar plums, oranges, persimmon, pineapple, melons and apples round out the fruit. The vegetables I can’t even begin to name. We have determined there are many dishes with eyes. Whole fish, shrimp, and rays and Dana likes to add potatoes (eyes get it!). In the grocery store they sold whole fish on ice. I guess you just put a fish in a bag and go. We also discovered smoke ice cream. I can’t believe they don’t have this in the US. I want Brad to sell this at his Slate Stand at ALF. They are these colorful cold crunchy things that when you bite into them cold vapor comes out of your mouth like smoke or in Brad’s case he likes to try to get it to come out of his nose. This was the best!
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