Fish Eyeballs and Fried Rice

That is what I ate for lunch today. Seriously.

Actually it was just one fish eyeball --- but yeah. We're rewinding to the beginning.....

The school feeds us three meals a day and gives us a stipend on the weekends so that we can scavenge our own food. Our very first day we showed up at the school and they gave us porridge for breakfast. We have porridge for breakfast a lot. Or noddles. And it's always hot. At first I wasn't so happy about so many hot meals in this hot place... but then Anna pointed out that if you heat your insides then your outsides feel cooler. And I think she's right.

Porridge is a kind of soupy type stuff with rice and little meat (and maybe vegetable) chunks floating around in it. Try eating that with chopsticks. Ha. It's an adventure.... but I'm getting pretty good at it. Sometimes we get a roll too. However, bread is a special topic which shall be discussed later.  Lunch usually consists of white rice with meat in a sauce and vegetables to go on top. The veggies are usually Chinese cabbage (which I love) or carrots. Then dinner is usually fried rice. Fried rice that is divine. Fried rice that is about a million times better than anything served in the states.

They weren't joking when they said I'd be eating lots of rice.

This looks like a pretty typical meal. 

Since school has started last Thursday, the cook has gradually been pulling out the stops, and the meals have been getting better and better. The sauces for the rice are better, the meats slightly less fatty (meat here still isn't as lean as it's served in the states...) and the vegetables are more varied.

Today though, he outdid himself.

This is what I ate for lunch.

Some more of that divine fried rice.... some sort of melony type thing. Sweet and sour sauce (that's the first time he's served that!) and yes. You are correct. That IS a fish head.

In case you are wondering: yes I did try it. No there wasn't much meat on it, and yes, the eyeball actually wasn't bad at all. Not that I'd want to eat them everyday.... but next time I get served a fish head I don't think I'll flinch.

Jealous much? I thought so.

Also. For those of you wondering if I did actually eat that lovely eyeball... here is the documented evidence:

I love China :) Maybe another time I'll tell you about bread.