Granted this was at the work cafeteria today and not one of my usual restaurants, but 43rmb bought be a good sized lunch and a decent dinner. Lunch was almost completely vegetarian — it’s difficult to be sure in China as they always sneak some meat in for flavor or filler — and dinner was a delicious noodle soup with a hunk of boneless chicken, skin on. The fact the chicken was boneless was pretty amazing yet the soup was quite delicious, though a tad salty. The squash that I picked up with lunch is one of my recent favorites as it’s always cooked a bit too much so it’s on the mushy side. And for some reason the cafeteria loves to sprinkle big sugar crystals on top of sliced tomatoes instead of salt, making it even more delicious thank what I’m used to eating.
Oh yeah, 43rmb is the equivalent of $6.25 in the USA!
Also, I hope my parents are reading this in time today to wish my Nana a very happy 97th birthday! I love you Nana and hope you get to see many more birthdays in the years to come!