😂 Travel #Miscommunication – I asked a local importer if he could help me find #BBQ sauce, knowing that #HuntsBBQ is in a lot of places here. He said ‘Sure!’ A couple days later, they told me my sauce was in and I came to find this – #KoreanBBQ sauce 😜 Also delicious! Just not what I was thinking. One of the fun parts of travel – We have different views of food vocabulary 😄
#Honeybread – A popular dessert here is Honey Bread – a really sweet bread with ice cream on top. Slowly the ice cream melted down into the bread. Very fun!
My students returned to school today for graduation photos. They do not take classes their final semester, so most already have jobs, internships, etc. Some are already leaving for grad school! I’ve known them for 3 years – love them so much!
In our university, students don’t pick their classes. Everyone in their class takes the same 10-11 classes together each semester. Then they share a dorm. So all 60 students in her class (Finance 1, 2013) have been together pretty much 24 hr a day for 4 years. Making great memories, but sad goodbyes.
Who needs a Road when you have crops to dry out? #Farming – #China style. 😂
Mural on the outside of an abandoned building
#Spring – April Showers bring May Flowers
Lemon 7-up is absolutely delicious! They call it ningmengqi or æŸ æª¬ä¸ƒ.
æŸ æª¬ (lemon) + 七 (7). It’s basically 7-up with squeezed lemon in it. Delicious!
I usually order it 多多冰 (duo duo bing). 多means more/extra. In Chinese, saying something twice makes it stronger – so 多多 means ‘a lot extra’. 冰 means ‘ice’.
So I get æŸ æª¬ä¸ƒå¤šå¤šå†° (ningmenqi duoduobing) or lemon 7-up with lots of ice. It’s possible I’m supposed to say the Ice first- my grammar isn’t that good. 😂 But they understand me! It cost me 7ï¿¥ or about 1$.
If you visit #China. you should try it. Very Good and super refreshing!
Took my first ever motor Scooter ride today! Drove about 3 hours out and about. Saw lots of cool things, Including this vegetable garden in front of the public toilet 😂
Iced Coffee #China style! Here in Henan, most restaurants don’t have ice. The Chinese don’t really like iced drinks – believing the cold unboiled water will make them sick and is a bad combination with your inside organs. (Probably true of the water here.)
But Ice Cream is a different story. Still bad for your health but not so likely to kill you. So if you Order iced coffee or an iced soda You’ll get Ice cream coffee or a ice cream float 😄
Ooh. . . . Seaweed Chips! 😂 The perfect junk food. They have the weirdest Types of chips here – no BBQ or Chedder Sour Cream. Nope, It’s Seaweed, Green Tea, Squid, Roasted Lamb, Hot Pot, and Yoghurt
A Life Savored 