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Eating in China: A Foreign Student’s Honest Guide to Canteen, Street Food, and Eating Out
When I first landed in China as a freshman, I thought I knew what Chinese food was. Sweet and sour pork from the takeout place back home. Fried rice with exactly three peas in it. The stuff they call "General Tso's chicken." I was wrong. Completely wrong. The first meal I had on campus was at the university canteen. It was chaos. Twenty windows, each serving something different — noodles, rice dishes, dumplings, soups, grilled stuff. I stood there like an idiot holding a tray, unable to read half the signs, too shy to ask what anything was. A random Chinese student saw me panicking and just pointed at a window, said "that one's good," and disappeared. I followed their…
Eating in China: A Foreign Student’s Honest Guide to Canteen, Street Food, and Eating Out
When I first landed in China as a freshman, I thought I knew what Chinese food was. Sweet and sour pork from the takeout place back home. Fried rice with exactly three peas in it. The stuff they call "General Tso's chicken." I was wrong. Completely wrong. The first meal I had on campus was at the university canteen. It was chaos. Twenty windows, each serving something different — noodles, rice dishes, dumplings, soups, grilled stuff. I stood there like an idiot holding a tray, unable to read half the signs, too shy to ask what anything was. A random Chinese student saw me panicking and just pointed at a window, said "that one's good," and disappeared. I followed their…
When I first landed in China as a freshman, I thought I knew what Chinese food was. Sweet and sour pork from the takeout place back home. Fried rice with exactly three peas in it. The stuff they call "General Tso's chicken." I was wrong. Completely wrong. The first meal I had on campus was at the university canteen. It was chaos. Twenty windows, each serving something different — noodles, rice dishes, dumplings, soups, grilled stuff. I stood there like an idiot holding a tray, unable to read half the signs, too shy to ask what anything was. A random Chinese student saw me panicking and just pointed at a window, said "that one's good," and disappeared. I followed their…
Eating in China: A Foreign Student’s Honest Guide to Canteen, Street Food, and Eating Out
When I first landed in China as a freshman, I thought I knew what Chinese food was. Sweet and sour pork from the takeout place back home. Fried rice with exactly three peas in it. The stuff they call "General Tso's chicken." I was wrong. Completely wrong. The first meal I had on campus was at the university canteen. It was chaos. Twenty windows, each serving something different — noodles, rice dishes, dumplings, soups, grilled stuff. I stood there like an idiot holding a tray, unable to read half the signs, too shy to ask what anything was. A random Chinese student saw me panicking and just pointed at a window, said "that one's good," and disappeared. I followed their…
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