After we left you last night, we ventured to Bean Curd Pudding Fish restaurant for dinner, being unable to find anywhere else with a better name.
The back of the restaurant was open to the elements, which meant that we were breathing fog while we sat inside (and let me tell you, it’s difficult to use chopsticks with two pairs of gloves on), but the spectacularly badly translated English menu made the subzero temperature well worth it. I couldn’t have made this menu up if I’d tried…here are a selection of our favourite dishes:
- Spice fumigates a duck
- Stir fry float the son is white
- Stir fry before stewing with no result kidney bean
- Fry bowel bean pointedly
- Fish incense eggplant
- The open space bacterium burns a bacon
It felt rude to laugh at their menu…however we really had no choice in the matter, and ended up with tears running down our faces (J – In two years I’ve never seen Penny laugh that hard!). Unfortunately, the more hilariously named dishes were quite expensive, so I’m afraid we never discovered exactly what an open space bacterium is… We ended up with the cheaper (and more identifiable) spinach, potatos and beef noodles, which were quite delicious.
This morning it was back to Juizhai Valley for our second day of exploring. In the lower part of the valley, we could do a lot more walking, and there were still dozens of beautiful coloured lakes and waterfalls to admire. Although it’s snowing here and the waterfalls are freezing in midair, it actually feels a lot warmer than Beijing. During the day it’s sunny with no wind, so I’m actually pretty comfortable (with two pairs of pants and my marshmellow jacket). I’m loving the winter white scenery too…
In his quest to get the perfect photo via the tripod and self-timer, Josh did a fairly impressive fall and slide action as he was running to get in the photo…to his credit, he managed to get up and smile in time for the shot (see the waterfall photo on the third row). It was only funny after we’d checked that he hadn’t broken anything…
Keep reading and commenting…we’re off to dinner again. And hoping for an equally brilliant English translation menu. We’re thinking about trying Chicken Wang…
Absolutely spectacular! Nate has now changed his chant to “boo-tao” (perhaps suggesting your next menu choice!)
Hi
just got my colleague who speaks Chinese can not figure out what those dishes are (except the first one – smoked duck). I am still trying to work out if beans have bowels or it is a bit of some bowel, either one doesn’t sound good.
Photos look stunning, well worth injuring yourself for…
Adrienne
Hey guys!
I’m LOVING the blog! I’m totally kicking myself now for not doing one while I was overseas, but I’m sure it would never have been as entertaining as yours (I’m sure that Penny will back me up in saying that my funniest stories would have been censored out of any blog I would have written!)
I’m sitting at work reading about the open space bacterium, and can totally picture Penny laughing so hard she cried, because I was doing the same! I was trying to expain it to one of my workmates but I was laughing so hard I couldn’t physically finish saying the bacterium line! Brilliant!
Your photos are amazing too. China in winter looks gorgeous.
Keep up the good work!
🙂 xox
Hey there! LOving the blog guys, hillarious!!!!! Remember doggies are for patting and running with, not eating 😉 miss u both in step and BA. Xx
It all sounds amazing, and the pics are great, love the bright green water and the frozen waterfalls. Food menus sound hilarious!