Gastronomical Diary

07/13-14
SFO en route to Beijing
In-flight meals
Meatloaf w/mushroom gravy and garlic mashed potatoes
Noodles and a almond cookie
Chicken & Noodles
Spicy Hot Dinner: Mike’s fried potato dish, chili oil soup w/cabbage, egg wrap ‘spring roll’, bok choy, Chinese broccoli, lamb kabobs, spicy sliced sausage, peanut chicken, fried bean paste w/nuts, sweat and sour ‘meat’

07/15
Pork biscuit, coffee and dried peas
Egg crepe w/cilantro and pork rind
Repeat of 1st Spicy Hot Dinner

07/16
Pickled veg, fermented bean curd, noodles
Hamburger at Silk Market
Pulled pork sandwich at Hard Rock

07/17
Sweet bean paste filled sesame bread
Wisdom Springs: Tomato, chicken wings, beans, potato-tarow root
Egg w/peppers, ‘meat’ with veggies (onions!)

07/18
Pork wiener, tort w/cabbage
Greens, chicken, peppers, onion
Soy noodles, rice, egg

07/19
Pork wiener, flat cabbage filled fry bread
Chinese take-out from town
fasting

07/20
Airport coffee
In-flight meal
Rice porridge w/pickled veggies, fruit cup, 3 tea sandwiches (ham, pimento, tuna)
Kunming lunch: chicken part soup, sweet and sour, pumpkin, spicy lotus root, greens, spicy meat, fried sticky rice w/ potato
Wicker Basket: Stuffed Sopapia and salad

07/21
Eggs, sausage, bacon, muffin, coffee
Dali: KFC burger
Lijiang: Fried jerky, tomato w/egg, cabbage, onion-pepper pork

07/22
Corny Big and Nescafe
1st Village: Chinese sorghum juice, pork fat soup w/ green onion, fired pork w/ mushrooms and light chili
Cashews, Mother’s jerky

07/23
Corny Big and Nescafe
Nanjian: Pork rib w/chili, pork w/onion and pepper, bok choy
2nd Village: Rice w/odd pork (fermented yogurt?), fried tofu, spiced tofu skin, tea, and too many snacks – ‘pears’, corn krispies, milk-peanut candy, hollow cookies

07/24
Corny Big, cashews and Nescafe
3rd Village: Rice, Chinese cabbage, other cabbage, fried pork ‘bacon’
Fish, chicken, cabbage, chili, pork, egg plant, squash, chili oil, rice, tea

07/25
3rd Village: Rice porridge, fried chili, spiced ‘meat’ and then for 2nd breakfast: whole fried fish, goose, sour bean veggies, cabbage, chili seaweed, pumpkin
Corny Big
Wicker Basket: Bacon cheese burger w/ fries, Magnum ice cream

07/26
Wheat noodles w/ garlic, onion and pork, Tamarind Juice
Americano – Yunjoy Cafe
Airport coffee
In-flight meal
Rice with ‘meat’ balls and sweet and sour, ham, picked veggies, roll, tomatoes, cellophane covered “acid horn”
Magnum ice cream

07/27
Nescafe
Airport coffee
In-flight meals
Beef w/ potatoes, carrot balls, broccoli, fruit, salad w/ ham, roll, spice cake
Noodles w/ almond cookie
Chicken and noodles, fruit, orange juice