Meal Time at Work

We have been doing a lot of exploring for meals at lunch outside the office. I don't know what we would do without our Chinese national co-workers. I suppose, we would probably be eating a lot of KFC or Pizza Hut.

We have a couple of favorite places that are very "down to earth" and boy do we get some looks when we come in (usually 8+ of us). The food is very cheap and usually does not cost more than $3-4 for a full family style sit down meal.

A couple of restaurants are in department stores of all places. I don't know how we actually find these places. So today we ate a Korean fast food restaurant. I just had to order the rice and dog. The dog meat looked and tasted a little like spicy shredded beef.

To top off the meal, I had mentioned that we were close by to a fast-food Chinese hamburger place. I wanted to stop by and pick one up and bring it back to the office for a taste. Below is what it looks like. It was not bad tasting...... a little salty.I had seen this place previously while out doing some bank branch research with a co-worker. The co-worker told me it was donkey meat used for the hamburger. I laughed and told her she must be kidding. She said donkey meat is very good and is highly regarded in China. She thought my reaction was odd. I had her ask the other American co-workers what they thought. As expected they gave the same reaction as I did.

So we had a further conversation with the rest of the team about this and why we thought it would be odd to eat donkey. The Chinese have a saying "eat dragon meat in heaven and donkey meat on earth". I guess it means that donkey meat is as good as it gets on earth. Maybe there are better cuts of donkey than what we ate in this hamburger. I think there were all sorts of parts in the shredded donkey. It did taste ok until I bit into a spicy pepper.