Breakfast at Beijing - China Tour IV

Jai Gurudev !!



Vegetable Salad varieties tasting more non veg & Fish Fry without oil (?!)

Thinking of the  Breakfast  we had at the hotel ..

Ah ! What a variety of  food served in the buffet style !! Though it's Lip smacking at the first glance of it , but it's not so ,if we have to taste .



BOILED EGGS WITH SHELL & MAIDA DISCS

Spread across the full length of 2 tables is numerous dishes . How I wish , I were a Chinese or atleast a non-vegetarian so that I can taste each dish and appreciate the recipe  !!
 

Actually one cannot resist the temptation  of tasting the colorful display of the food items !!

As in any other breakfast menu , the Bread, butter and Jam was included along with fruits like Watermelon , Oranges etc apart from the Boiled Egg  and thick warm Milk , Black Coffee and Black Tea and warm juices like apple extract juice , Lemon juice etc.



Initial days Breakfast menu - Baby Potatoes,
boiled sweet pumpkins, watermelons etc

The eggs were not removed off its shell , only we need to do it ourselves . The Egg yellow was not looking yellow in colour but green in colour !!

And Black tea served was of different variety , as one day Jasmine Tea, the other day Chrysanthum tea , Black Tea etc , but everything sugarless and milkless.
Also some plain boiled sweet pumpkin pieces and sweet potato pieces were also part of the breakfast buffet . Then there was Plum like fruit was kept and eagerly we took it and tasted , after which we came to know it's all Tomatoes ...Baby tomatoes looking like plums.

Our initial days of breakfast included only any of the above items except Egg . But , u see , we did not want to really give a try of the strange food , which we had already had the warning information in India before leaving to China ,ike the Chinese menu item would consist of snakes , reptiles, worms etc.. The very thought of those words created a sort of initial aversion towards the Chinese food items.

As days passed  , slightly I was drawn by the looks of the other stuffs placed there and took pains to know if it’s a vegetarian food . Learnt that “Tsu shei “  is the Chinese equivalent for vegetarian and used to point at the food stuff and ask the waitress , “Tsu shei ?!”

She used to nod her head and say  “Tsu Shei ..Tsu shei “ if it’s veg and if it’s not she used to nod in other direction. After confirmation, I was attempting to taste and started having a liking towards those food when we were approaching towards  the end of the trip !! Strange are our taste buds, I feel.



No idea about this food item not tasted

Somedays ,fried veg noodles , with only cabbage  was kept , which I liked and even went for a second serving at times !!

A chocolate cream stuffed tiny sweet puffs was there . The taste was not bad !!

 

Then the other stuffs namely ( The Chinese names I don’t know, so I had given my own names )

·         Ragi cones - steamed ragi flour mixed with slight sugar in conical shapes

·         Maida Discs – steamed maida flour mixed with slight sugar once again.

·         Onion coriander salad – White onion and coriander with Red Chilly

·         Momos ( Believed to be Chinese name here) – Steamed maida with stuffed beef

·         Fried Fish – Looks like fried fish with less or no oil , I guess



Chocalate cream stuffed Tiny samosas & Beef Momos

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 Varieties of vegetable salads (?!) – The question mark is because the taste is something strange ..tasted like non vegetarian, I believe the oil used for mixing is different perhaps non veg oil  , the smell is unbearable .

·         Egg Fried Rice

·         Rice Porridge – Plain Kanji with no sugar/salt

·         Porridge with Egg /Non veg stuff

·         2 to 3 types of Plum Cakes

·         Twisted Biscuits

·         Fried sticks of Urad Dhaal  - A stuff made of Urad Dhal , similar to our Ulunda Vada of Taminadu , but the shape is not round, but rectangular in shape like a stick . Good taste !!

·         Ragi and Maida Rolls – Colourful steamed Maida  mixed with ragi rolls with slight sugar !!



Cakes , Biscuits

·         And some items which cannot be described at all , because I don’t know how to describe it !!

People eat those Ragi Cones and maida discs plain and the taste is so bland !!

But one thing I noticed is the chinese food does not consist of oil at all and with only very less of sugar and salt. And literally no masala items at all !! No doubt it's a healthy food !!

That's the reason , hardly I can spot the people with big tummy or pot belly !!
The secret of their looks is their food recipe ?!!

Ragi & Maida mixed Roll , sweet potato pieces

  Love & smiles...