Food in China - no General Tso's

This is becoming fun now:) We went out for a nice dinner last night at a Brazilian Barbeque. Wonderful atmosphere on the big ship in the harbor that they've turned into a hotel and a bunch of restaurants. There is a German and a Turkish place opening up this weekend on the deck of the ship, but they still don't have English translation for their menus. Tony discussed this with the owner who promised to have translations for us by the next time we come back. But we went downstairs to the Brazilian BBQ which I was honestly nervous for. I was very hungry at this point and didn't want to waste time with bad food. I was so wrong though. They have a buffet style area where you can get rice, noodles, salad and other sides (plus good desserts). There was a lot of fish (which I don't care for in the US even) including some fish heads with the eyeball still in it. But then they come around with these skewers full of meat and ask if you want some of it. I loved the Duck and the Pork loin. And they had some Beef and were coming around with prime rib when we were leaving. But I also tried Camel (which was very greasy) - Tony was pissed that I ate the Camel since that's the Lebanese National Animal I think. They had sausages and even corn on the cob!! Finished it off with some icecream!

The worst part of the whole experience was the music that they brought in halfway through. These 3 girls and 1 guy get up on the stage and start singing to American CRAP songs. The 2 girls sang, the 1 girl ran the computer with the Kareoke files, and the dude played bongos (and not very well at that). It was scary how everyone else was enjoying the music and we thought it was horrible. I thought I was out for Amateur Night for Kareoke! They sang the "other" Spice Girls song..... can't remember what it's called but you all know the one I'm talking about. They also sang something by the Carpenters. I was pretty sure there was some Journey in there too which just goes to prove that Journey SUCKS since all the music sung last night was on the "best left never performed again" list.

I bought a watch for $2.40 per my conversion. It's nothing fancy but I am tired of not having any idea what the time is when I walk around. I don't think I've worn a wrist watch since High School and I don't enjoy it. It'll do for the next 2 weeks though. I was told I could have spent another $5 and gotten a Rolex but that's too flashy for me. The lady wanted $5 for the watch but we talked her down to a lot less.

The area is still very decorated for Christmas. They were adding a huge tree in the middle of the food area last night with only 4 days to go. Not sure why but hey, who am I to argue? We also found a stand with illegal DVDs for cheap. They even had the new Harry Putter and King Kong there. Tony said the new HP was all in Chinese so he's taking it back to get his dollar back. Cheap a$$!

Here's a few pics from the food square:

I also keep getting these Pepsi cans with a pop singer on them. I can't read the Chinese characters so Kevin translated her to be Jolin Tsai. I called her "Pee-ow, Lee-ow" which means "pretty". Nee-how pee-ow lee-ow (hello pretty one).

On the subject of learning Chinese. We just got back from our car ride home. Our driver tonight was Lee and he is pretty funny. I was singing for him in the car ride home. Someone was cutting him off so he called the guy a "Jack a$$" in Chinese so like little kids do when they hear a bad word, we repeat it. Doesn't help that we started a new tradition of buying a beer outside the plant at a little shack that sells lunches and drinks. Pitzen - it's about 62 cents for a 32 oz beer bottle (cold) and it's 100% legal to drink in the car as long as you're not driving!!! Knew you'd like that. So it's costing you NOT to drink it.... pop is 2.50 which would be about 34 cents a can. Cheaper to buy the beer. Chin-tow is the beer we've been drinking.

Time to go out with the crew - many more stories to come but wanted to post this for all of you early risers!!