So at the school we basically ate the same thing everyday. It was buffet style, semi-Chinese, semi-Western style food. For breakfast we'd have eggs, sometimes hard boiled, sometimes scrambled, sometimes fried; oil sticks 油條 but they were soft instead of crunchy; ham; bread; this asian hot pocket thing. For lunch and dinner, we'd have some combination of cauliflower, mashed potatoes, meat and our favorite, fries. The funniest thing is that the lighting in the cafeteria was so bad that we couldn't see what was being served in the buffet line. I was okay with the food but a lot of people really did not like it. And they were especially not used to eating Chinese food every day. I never really thought about it, but Americans eat different cuisines every day because there is no 'American' cuisine, perhaps except hamburgers and steaks. But since I'd grown up eating Chinese every day, it wasn't so bad for me. Oh, and I've noticed that at the school, and everywhere else I went in China, watermelon was served in almost every meal. Chinese people love their watermelons! We started eating less at the meals as we realized that the food was the same every day, and we began to fill up on our favorite ice cream bars, Magnum! I think we ate up the store's entire inventory of Magnum bars by the time we left. The *most* interesting thing I came across food-related in China is probably corn juice. You'd expect it to be cold since it's juice and it comes in a glass, but nope, it's warm and tastes like sweet corn soup. Very strange.
The buffet line for breakfast
This was the best meal here at the school, we actually got steak instead of the buffet stuff! It doesn't look as appetizing in the picture, but we were *very* satisfied.
We sat at 3 of these long tables for most of our meals at the school.
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Did you order any Dominos?
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