We Ate Our Way Across The Eastern Tibetan Plateau - 40 Different Dishes in 15 Days
That is correct, 40 different Chinese dishes in 15 days. The Chinese people love to eat...give three cheers...and so say all of us. We ate three meals a day, beginning with a breakfast of dumplings or noodle soup (made with fresh noodles in front of our eyes). Some humble dumplings were absolutely wonderful, while others so-so, and never cooked the same way twice. Steamed with different fillings of meat, vegetables, spicy and/or sweet, they were always filling.
The same menus are served for both lunch and dinner in China but we ended up not gaining a single pound for two reasons. The Chinese don't eat heavy, sugared desserts, e.g. cake, pies which I happen to love at home. Desserts are my weakness and I don't intend to give them up! And, the slivers of pork, chicken, yak meat, incorporated into any dish is so infinitesimal that it would be impossible to gain weight no matter how much you eat. ex-Marine and I would even have whispered conversations, "Do you think there could possibly be one-quarter ounce of pork in this?"
