Snack Time

The campus is littered with small food stands and stalls, and some of my favorite food so far has been found in these nondescript places.

Below, a steamed bread pocket/dumpling called "baozi". These are filled with vegetables, pork, beef, etc. Eight of them can be had for 25 cents.



The beef version:



Perhaps my favorite cheap find so far is this concoction. Also coming in at 25 cents, is consists of a tortilla, egg, lettuce, peanut sauce (I believe), onions, noodles, and sketchy meat. First, the dough is rolled out on the grill and allowed to bubble up a bit. Then, a hole is poked into the tortilla, and a whisked egg is poured in. After the egg has finished cooking inside the tortilla, the unidentified meat (sort of like what I imagine a bologna/spam/ham amalgamation would be like) is grilled and then placed on the tortilla with a leaf of lettuce, noodles, and few pinches of chopped onions. The tortilla is then rolled up and eaten like a burrito. Simply delicious!