Traditional Anhui lunch
There is always way more food served in a Chinese lunch than one can eat. Usually it contains lunch and multiple dishes. Always tea and soup are served for liquids. Our soup contained egg and tomato. The dishes were, clockwise from top left, egg with vegetable, bamboo in the best sauce ever, chicken parts with bone and skin, and unknown mushy vegetable with pork pieces. Yes, Ty went hungry many times. Believe it or not, the Chinese beer was a welcome refreshment. Not too strong for this non-beer drinker.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
