My Operamy first food review
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 1:32:11 PM
Part 1 We here live in campus; we need to have our meals at cafeteria everyday, very miserable life, alas. So we would go out to the school gate to have dinner sometimes, to have a change, to find something interesting to eat.
I’ve been live in this campus for 2 years, but I haven’t gone to every restaurant outside the school gate, as I am lazy and conservative. I would stick to some restaurants I like and stopping trying the others until someone guarantee there’s good place to eat.
The food in cafeteria, in a word, sucks. 7 days in a week, 4 weeks in a month, 12 months in a year, they have all the same food and never change. I think I will never ever have fried potato with “curry” chicken, fried aubergine, steam cabbage and meatballs again after I graduate from collage. The food here sucks. But we are the lucky ones for we can have our meal in the biggest and the cleanest canteen of the campus. The other cafeterias in campus are dark and crowed.
The food in the restaurants outside the school gate is not that good, too. First of all, the environment is bad. The places to eat sometimes you can’t call it a restaurant. They are tatty and dingy. Most of the food is tinpot. And the service, you can call it totally self-service if you like.
Although in this tough environment, there’re still some restaurants to go. Chef Qiu, the one in the end at the alley of the right side of the school gate, which serves food of northern China flavour. The food is different from the common food of Cantonese flavour we have in other restaurants here. You will find some different dishes in Chef Qiu, such as ZiRan mutton, which are little pieces of roasted or fried mutton with special spice originated from northern and western China; also they have BaSi sweet potato, a dish serves the hot fried potato which dipped into the thick syrup. The time you nip up a piece of the sweet potato, the sticky syrup will be pulled into tiny little threads. The time you eat it, you dip the sweet potato into a bowl of cool water to separate it from the sticky syrup, and then you put the sweet potato in your mouth and chew it. The syrup becomes crispy after dipping into the cool water but the sweet potato wrapped by it is still so warm and creamy and sweet and savory. This dish is my favourite. It can serve sweet potato but also potato, banana, pumpkin, apple and orange. The other dishes are interesting too there; people who come from northern China often go there to have the food, which tasted like their hometowns’, when we want something different, we go there too.
Part 2
And there’s another exotic restaurant to go, the Genuine Handmade Noodles of LanZhou. You could hardly call it a restaurant because it’s so small. It’s on the side of the alley opposite to the school gate, behind the main road. There’s a guy making handmade noodles at the door of the restaurant, and there’s the place where they cook most of the noodles. The typical noodles are served with beef and specially flavoured soup. Man makes all the noodles but not machine. The cook kneads the dough for a long time in order to make it pliable enough to pull them into strings. The process of making the noodles from dough is very interesting to watch. You will find it amazing that a little dough could be pull into little strings all by hand without stranding. The noodles are dainty for it had been kneaded for a long time. The soup served with the noodles is tasty; it is made from some special mixture of spices originated from northern and western China. And the beef and mutton serve with the noodles are specially made, the thin pieces of meat taste good too. And I love their spring onion cake there, it’s chewy, and smells good.
Still, I want to talk more about the food and the restaurants outside the school gate. Two restaurants for this time. Maybe in my coming food review, it will be more.
I’ve been live in this campus for 2 years, but I haven’t gone to every restaurant outside the school gate, as I am lazy and conservative. I would stick to some restaurants I like and stopping trying the others until someone guarantee there’s good place to eat.
The food in cafeteria, in a word, sucks. 7 days in a week, 4 weeks in a month, 12 months in a year, they have all the same food and never change. I think I will never ever have fried potato with “curry” chicken, fried aubergine, steam cabbage and meatballs again after I graduate from collage. The food here sucks. But we are the lucky ones for we can have our meal in the biggest and the cleanest canteen of the campus. The other cafeterias in campus are dark and crowed.
The food in the restaurants outside the school gate is not that good, too. First of all, the environment is bad. The places to eat sometimes you can’t call it a restaurant. They are tatty and dingy. Most of the food is tinpot. And the service, you can call it totally self-service if you like.
Although in this tough environment, there’re still some restaurants to go. Chef Qiu, the one in the end at the alley of the right side of the school gate, which serves food of northern China flavour. The food is different from the common food of Cantonese flavour we have in other restaurants here. You will find some different dishes in Chef Qiu, such as ZiRan mutton, which are little pieces of roasted or fried mutton with special spice originated from northern and western China; also they have BaSi sweet potato, a dish serves the hot fried potato which dipped into the thick syrup. The time you nip up a piece of the sweet potato, the sticky syrup will be pulled into tiny little threads. The time you eat it, you dip the sweet potato into a bowl of cool water to separate it from the sticky syrup, and then you put the sweet potato in your mouth and chew it. The syrup becomes crispy after dipping into the cool water but the sweet potato wrapped by it is still so warm and creamy and sweet and savory. This dish is my favourite. It can serve sweet potato but also potato, banana, pumpkin, apple and orange. The other dishes are interesting too there; people who come from northern China often go there to have the food, which tasted like their hometowns’, when we want something different, we go there too.
Part 2
And there’s another exotic restaurant to go, the Genuine Handmade Noodles of LanZhou. You could hardly call it a restaurant because it’s so small. It’s on the side of the alley opposite to the school gate, behind the main road. There’s a guy making handmade noodles at the door of the restaurant, and there’s the place where they cook most of the noodles. The typical noodles are served with beef and specially flavoured soup. Man makes all the noodles but not machine. The cook kneads the dough for a long time in order to make it pliable enough to pull them into strings. The process of making the noodles from dough is very interesting to watch. You will find it amazing that a little dough could be pull into little strings all by hand without stranding. The noodles are dainty for it had been kneaded for a long time. The soup served with the noodles is tasty; it is made from some special mixture of spices originated from northern and western China. And the beef and mutton serve with the noodles are specially made, the thin pieces of meat taste good too. And I love their spring onion cake there, it’s chewy, and smells good.Still, I want to talk more about the food and the restaurants outside the school gate. Two restaurants for this time. Maybe in my coming food review, it will be more.
maggiepersonality # Friday, November 10, 2006 6:38:31 AM
IT IS MY FISRT TIME HERE.
TO BE HONEST,I LIKE READING YOUR BLOG.YOUR WORDING AND DICTION ARE ECELLENT IN OUR CLASS.
I THINK I AM TASTING THE FOOD BY YOUR INTRODUCTION.
stephaniecstephanie # Friday, November 10, 2006 8:40:11 AM
i bet you had had those dishes before~~~~
i love delicious food, and i enjoy writing about them.
Mooloolababoy # Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:31:45 AM
Yvonne Larmourvonnie # Saturday, November 11, 2006 5:33:55 AM
stephaniecstephanie # Saturday, November 11, 2006 6:15:37 AM
2 Sisters Hunan Diner? i haven't been there before, i will go and have a try since you recommended.