Typical meal in Tianshui (L-R) fat noodle soup, bamboo shoots, green vegetable w/out English translation, cauliflower, another unidentified green vegetable with eggs.
Noodles with beef and bok choi in the city of Suzhou
During this business trip, I was served many interesting foods including:
1. silk worm maggots
2. smoked duck neck with head
3. roasted pigs feet
4. fish larvae soup
5. fermented "stinky" tofu
6. carmelized eel
7. corn smut
There were also some beverages which I do not typically drink:
1. hot coconut milk
2. hot orange-ade
3. cucumber juice
4. carrot juice
5. chrysanthemum tea
And there were numerous dishes served where my hosts couldn't (or wouldn't) give me an English translation, so I didn't know what the heck I was eating. More often than not, there was no beverage available with or after a meal. It left me thinking "can I get a Coke Zero around here?" No?
Overbake the brownies a bit, you want the legs to be hard enough to stand on. But the middle must be soft enough to scoop out and remain edible! Let it cool in the pan a few minutes, then loosen from the sides and dump it out carefully. Make sure it doesn't stick fast to the surface it's cooling on. Cool thoroughly, even let it dry out a bit. Then scoop out the middle.
You can see that this half of the horse has also been sawed horizontally to make it flat. It will have to lay flat against the other half of the horse. Oh, stuff with Peeps or an army of your choosing *before* putting the two halves together.
