After touring China for over three weeks, I must say that my husband and I were thoroughly impressed with the country. We enjoyed so many places but one of the highlights was seeing the pandas up close at the Panda Research Breeding Centre at Chengdu, Szechuan. You can see from the picture that they like a diet of bamboo. The babies are only around 100 grams when born but look what the bamboo does for them!
The people here are just as crazy for noodles. There are many different kinds and they eat them even for breakfast. The favourite mixture is putting noodles in a bowl, and then adding stir fried strips of egg, a few greens (like spinach), cooked ground pork, vegetable broth, and last, a small spoon of chilli from the hot pot (shown below). The hot pot is made from chopped chillies, garlic, peppercorns and oil. It is always presented in this region separately from other dishes. Each person seasons their food with as much of the hot spice as desired. It warms one up with tasty chilli zest.
© Judy Labi 2013
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