Day 17 – Trying of new food

I had my first try of the local fast food restaurant today for our lunch. We went to Duo Luo Jie for our lunch again, but this time we decided to try something new and so we went to Pai Le Han Bao where they sell burgers, drumsticks and drinks. The concept was somehow similar to the KFC we had in Singapore. Over here they also sell their food in meals, they had a total of 6 different types of meals and amazingly they have popcorn chicken too. The only difference as compared to KFC is that the drink that came with the meal was hot milk tea instead of coke and the bread which was used to make their burger smells really nice; it has this butter smell in it, which makes the whole burger taste even tastier. The food there was also pretty cheap, it only cost us 11rmb($2 plus) for our meals which comes with popcorn chicken, a burger plus a drink. Also, I found out that this restaurant was pretty thoughtful as they even prepared gloves for us so that we could eat our chicken without dirtying our hands! While maybe because over here, water is very precious and expensive to them and so, in order to save the amount paid for electricity bills, they would rather just spend on the plastic gloves.
Pai le Han Bao

Their Counter

Our Meals


As for dinner, we went to the same restaurant which we went previously during Mid Autumn festival, we went to have the Mian Sian but this time we manage to finish the while pot! We had five person sharing it and so, each of us only have to pay 5rmb($1) for our meals! After our meals, the guys decided to try some of the street food, and so they brought this pancake alike thingy and tried it. I took a bite of it and it taste pretty nice. It taste like the waffle we have in Singapore just that it is softer here and that it smells really nice especially in the cold weather now.
The pancake alike food


After so, we headed to another food cart which sells satay. We were pretty shock by the seller as he looks totally like a Caucasian. After trying really hard to communicate with him, we found out that he was from Xin Jiang, and he was selling Xin Jiang satay sticks.
The guy which looks like a caucasian

Edward taking over his place

A picture of them

The food is ready now ^^


Reflections:
Today we were offered a dinner treat by the vegetarian restaurant owner as he said that he is very thankful to the guys as they kept ordering their lunch from him, which have help him to increase his sales pretty much. And so the boss of the shop actually closes his shop today and gave everyone of us a treat at his restaurant. He was really nice, he prepared 2 steamboats for all of us who went, and he prepared a full table of food for us. When I saw it I was pretty touched, and I felt that they were hospitable. Perhaps, this seldom happens in Singapore or maybe they do, just that I do not know of. But somehow, I felt that the people in Wuhan city are easily contented, they are really thankful for what they have. But instead in Singapore we are always grumbling on things which we do not have. I guess it is time for us to learn such attitude from the people in Wuhan, to be thankful and appreciate what we have. Don’t you agree?


We try, we experience, we learn