Dinner in a small non-descript place run by a Hui family in Xinjiang province, China. My colleagues took me there to sample the beef soup with meatballs, but the whole dinner turned out excellent.
Peanuts, starch jelly in spicy vinegar, home made fermented cabbage with lemon juice, super-beefy soup with potato noodles and their famous meatballs, chicken with green sichuan peppercorn oil, chunks of boiled beef bones to gnaw on, tiger salad, mantou. And as I had still one hour to kill before my flight, some herbal liquor. Tasty ...
