In China, Food is King!

Last night, the American faculty and our families were treated to a spectacular show...Dinner.  Invited by one of the families of our students, we arrived at the restaurant and were ushered into a beautifully decorated private dining room, which featured a large round table, which seated 17 of us comfortably, atop which sat a lazy susan that was at least 14 feet in diameter.

The meal itself was pure theater. Dish after dish after dish came out--each elaborately and painstakingly decorated.  We had soup and duck and chicken and pork...lotus seeds, lotus root, shellfish and dumplings....and a lot of rice wine. And each time you would think, 'ok, this HAS to be the end of the meal,' the waitstaff would bring out some new delicacy.  I tell you, I've never eaten so much in one sitting in my life.  But man, it was so wonderful!  The Chinese see food as an art. It is almost too pretty to eat...well, almost!