When ordering food in China, you have two basic options: something that is fried in oil of questionable origin, or something that is boiled in a soup base. Sometimes, the soup boils at your table in a hotpot:
Although the temperature can be really high, the spices make it even hotter:
Sometimes the meat is hard to eat, like this spicy broth with pig’s feet:
In the west, we occasionally talk about food that is loaded with carbs. This spicy fish soup is loaded with carp (and small bones):
This is the land of chopsticks for a good reason: you certainly don’t want to take a big spoonful of this stuff!
Here is the soup menu from another restaurant we visited. I suspect that they must’ve recently made a special purchase of a large pile of discounted kelp:
I couldn’t even stomach the soup we ate at p.f. changs(egg drop)… but I do want to try the limitless seasoning for self-help 😉
oh man, the carp hot pot. That is one thing I do not miss about China. I am cracking up about that kelp menu though…