Thursday, June 19: Our first breakfast in Hangzhou
We stayed in a downtown hotel our first night, which included a buffet breakfast in the lobby restaurant. I love Chinese breakfast spreads because outside of a few exceptions, I'm not a big fan of what are traditionally thought of as breakfast foods (waffles, pancakes, omelets, etc...) and except for the few usually unsuccessful attempts at Western breakfast foods, Chinese breakfast buffets consist of various options including dishes such as tea eggs, stir-fried tofu, vegetables, meat, and boiled/steamed/fried dumplings. Both of us especially enjoy a bowl of 粥 (hot rice porridge). This buffet had two types of porridge - I went for the one with the black century eggs in it and Owen went for what looked like plain porridge; in most instances mine would appear to be the more daring of the two, but the hotel's English translator must have been mixing up his food and medical dictionaries, as the plain porridge Owen ate was translated as:
We stayed in a downtown hotel our first night, which included a buffet breakfast in the lobby restaurant. I love Chinese breakfast spreads because outside of a few exceptions, I'm not a big fan of what are traditionally thought of as breakfast foods (waffles, pancakes, omelets, etc...) and except for the few usually unsuccessful attempts at Western breakfast foods, Chinese breakfast buffets consist of various options including dishes such as tea eggs, stir-fried tofu, vegetables, meat, and boiled/steamed/fried dumplings. Both of us especially enjoy a bowl of 粥 (hot rice porridge). This buffet had two types of porridge - I went for the one with the black century eggs in it and Owen went for what looked like plain porridge; in most instances mine would appear to be the more daring of the two, but the hotel's English translator must have been mixing up his food and medical dictionaries, as the plain porridge Owen ate was translated as:
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