What's for Dinner?

After some of the pictures I have posted of food.....oddities....my MIL thought we might be starving and wondered what we CAN eat.  So here  is what we had for dinner last night....I forgot to take a pic of the eggs....we have to eat them while they are hot!

So here we have some cute cabbage/broccoli cousin.  Sometimes I just steam them and you put whatever you like on them.  Other times I get more creative.

Last night I got more creative....Here we see sliced onions sauteing in a touch of oil along with garlic and some red pepper flakes.  To which I added the greens.








Don't they look Delicious?

We also had rice.  Just boiled, nothing fancy.

Olivia, being of a very discriminating palate, had green beans as sauteed greens do not quite cut it for her.  We finally found a green bean that tasted something like home.  I bought some beans that were almost 2 feet long, cooked them up and fed them to Olivia....she said they were not very good.  I tried them another time and agreed we would not get those again....who knew green beans could taste like paste and have the texture of chick peas (I don't like chick peas!)  If it doesn't say Sunkist, you don't know what's inside.!
Eating here is an adventure some days.  I get most of my fresh veggies at a veggie man.....about a five minute bike ride away, he has also started selling meat, I think because the meat shop that was next door seems to have closed.  We have a small grocery just five minutes in the other direction which carries fresh milk....we aren't fans of the boxes/bags, we keep them on hand for when the market is out of milk which happened a lot in July and August when we first got here because we came before the ex-pats returned for the school year, not so much now.  This market caters to the ex-pat community with lots of imported goods.  They also carry good cheese.  The Chinese don't tend to eat as much cheese as other cultures from what I understand.  One of the big differences for me with shopping is that for fresh foods I have to shop almost daily.  I am having to get used to that because I cannot find frozen veggies that look like something we want to eat, unless it is an import which is then very expensive....think about five dollars US for a small bag of frozen, Birdseye corn......We bought corn on the cob one day.....it looked so good, and everyone walks down the street eating it....street vendors sell it in the summer.....I guess it might be what we call field corn back home.....never ate field corn but it can't be much worse than this stuff was.  A very disappointing purchase:(

Love, fondly, sincerely,
zaijian,
Ramona