After we left the Great Wall, we drove back into town to eat lunch at a fantastic traditional restaurant.
It was on a very crowded street and the parking lot was packed. I was surprised that our driver was able to get his van into the parking lot at all!
We walked in and were in awe of how neat and how beautiful the restaurant was. We definitely felt under dressed in our “touristy” comfortable clothes!
At the restaurant, a wedding had just taken place and they were cleaning up from the wedding. As we were waiting for our lunch, we looked over and saw the bride sitting across the room. Rachel and I decided we’d go over and ask to have our picture made with her. She was just stunningly beautiful.
Cheers! No ice, but at least the cans had been somewhat chilled :)
The food is served one dish at a time and placed on a large turntable in the center of the table. Everyone just turns the table and serves themselves from each of the dishes and the meal is eaten family style. We ordered several dishes to try from a picture menu.
The little dough balls were filled with a figgy type center. None of us liked them. The fried rice was delicious, as was the shrimp in the garlicy sauce. We were really excited about the noodles, but they weren’t what we had hoped for. They were cold and even a bit spicy. We ate a few bites but didn’t love them. We also ordered duck. There wasn’t much meat on the bones and the meat tasted pretty gamey too. Overall we got enough to fill up our bellies and it was a very neat cultural experience. We even had one lady come up to us and start talking to us. She wanted to practice her English. She spoke very well!
Jason took several really nice pictures of the scenery along the way. It’s cool to see what’s normal life there is quite different from life here.
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