Another Good Lunch

After walking along the gardens, your stomach starts to make some funny sounds. It means that lunch is approaching and its time to go. Today we would go to Tan Xiang Shan （坛香膳）to eat lunch. I like the food served at this restaurant.

We would start with a very delicious pork and green peppers dish. This dish was very delicious and we finished the whole dish.

I always like to choose a green vegetable to eat. I forgot the English name for this vegetable. There were three different cooking methods for the vegetables on the menu. All were in Chinese, so I just pointed to one cooking method and it actually turned out to be cooked how I like them.

This dish is similar to the sweet and sour pork we are used to in the United States, but at this restaurant it is called pork in tomato sauce. It is a very delicious dish and probably a dish that a westerner would be very comfortable eating. We also ordered a fried rice Yangtze style and then the main dish below.

This dish is the Spicy Mandarin Fish. We completely devoured this fish. The fish was so spicy it would open up your nasal passages and leave your mouth numb. I love to see the colorful peppers. We usually choose the Mandarin fish because it has fewer bones and is much easier to eat cooked as a whole fish. Some of the other fresh water fishes have many bones and are very difficult to eat. If you like spicy food, I recommend you try this fish.

For five dishes we paid 189 RMB ($27.59 US). This meal is actually a little expensive for China, but I have to say the most expensive dish was the fish and it alone was close to 100 RMB, but it was the most enjoyable dish.