Lunch yesterday was a late breakfast. Dim sum in a local hotel. Here are but some of the dishes.
肠粉 cháng fěn
Literally, chang fen means "intestine noodles", but these contain no intestines. The name comes from the shape and that they are rolled into cylinders. They are rice noodles and contain fried pork and/or shrimp. These came in two forms. This one with soy sauce and another with sweet chilli sauce.
Char siu buns
I forget the name of these - something like Indian pancakes, although there is nothing Indian about them. Scallions in batter, really. Very nice.
Fried jiaozi which had all stuck together (deliberately).
Greenery
and a very non-traditional, very local dish of Luosifen to finish.
This was washed down by a bottle of beer which only arrived after an utter farce. I specifically requested ice cold beer, which the server repeated only to reappear with a bottle of the local brew at room temperature. She had already opened it. It is normal in China for the unopened bottle to be presented to you for your approval (correct beer, cortrect temperature etc) before they open it. I don't blame the server. Just poor training.
Anyway I refused it. They weren't happy at all, but said they would get another, which they did half an hour later. FIve star hotel, my arse. (The hotel is government owned - guess who awards the stars.)
Still, it caused more amusement than annoyance and the food was great.