The food post

Of cause there must be a food post! So this is it. Or maybe part one of it.

Starting in China we had a classic: Peking duck. And a noodle soup at the Punkrock noodle place. Which was ok but not great. We actually wanted to go to another place but that was (like so often) gone.

Then in Xining (a very Muslim dominated city) we visited a super good jiaozi (dumplings with different fillings) restaurant.

In the train it was disappointing: Instant noodles. Not for the last time btw because there were a couple of places in the middle of nowhere where we needed food for the next 1000m of height.

Surprisingly we had one of the best dinners in a small village about 60km away from Lhasa. A tibetian family cooking excellent Chinese dishes. And for desert we invited ourselves to a a local familie's party and they gave us watermelon (and they took a lot of pictures).Читать далее