Food Randomness

This is a vegetable market. Markets like these (indoor or outdoor) are quite common in China. A great place to get vegetables. Usually if you just want to make a meal, you can throw together some random veggies that you need and pay something like $1 (USD). I was blown away by this market because it was by far the cleanest market I have been to in China. Usually markets like this are quite nasty (because they are usually conjoined with the meat market).

This is what happens when you try to store pizza dough in the fridge in a container.

 

Fairly recently ago I discovered a buffet for 35 RMB (almost $6 US). The buffet is quite good and everyone there is super nice because I am a foreigner. When I went in, they asked me if I wanted pizza and I said sure. So they made a pizza for me and brought it over. The pizza was not that great, but it is the thought that counts eh?

In Taiwan, there were a lot of stores that sold a bunch of random stuff. I would call them dongxi shops (things shops). I have found a few good dongxi markets here in China. The one in this picture is may favorite. This is one "store" of about 15 that just sells candy. Not a good place for me to be.

Recently found a restaurant that sells a pretty killer (not literally) curry chicken. About 35 RMB ($6).

This is the menu... not sure if this is just terrible English, or if they thought another language (Finnish maybe?) would be more fitting.

The same restaurant also sells some pretty mean (again, not literally) steaks. This was 48 RMB  (Almost $8).

 

I bought pizza (48 RMB $8) because I am still on the hunt for a decent American pizza. Thought Chicken BBQ sounded promising. This definitely was not chicken BBQ. Not bad though.

First day as a tourist in Baguio, Philippines

This is a view from Loida's house looking up. To go to the road, you have to take a short hike.

It is about a 30 minute hike from the small road to get to a main road where you can go into town.

Seeing goats along the street is very common.

This is looking down onto Loida's house and neighborhood. Her house is the rusted roof on the bottom right hand corner.

Look at this closely and you should be able to figure out what tree this is. Bwa ha ha! It is not a tree at all! It is a fern! I have been really impressed with what grows here. So far I have seen huge fern, pine trees, poinsettias, palm trees and bamboo.

I think they still use bottles here quite frequently.

With my Baguio T-Shirt.

First meal I got was Pizza. And it was good! Definitely much better than anything I have had in China. This pizza cost around $7 USD.

Thought this sign was interesting. Not so subtle way of saying "We want to hire someone good at flirting."

These vehicles are called Jeepneys. They are the way probably at least of 60% of the people travel here. Here is a slightly comical but mostly true description of the jeepney experience.

Cool sign. Wish they had this in China.

Went bowling! Didn't do so well though.

I have been eating a ton of street food. It is amazing and super cheap!

They have donuts here that taste like donuts! YES! (bottom left in case you don't know what a donut looks like).

Day 01 here as a tourist was fantastic. I have been constantly amazed at the beauty that surrounds me here.