This Great Work

 When the Chinese go out to dinner, they rarely order a single dish for a single person.  Everything is meant to be shared among those joining in.  If it's a small group, the dishes are just set in the middle of the table and when you want a piece of an item, you reach in with your chopsticks and grab it.  If you go with a bigger group, you are set at a larger table with a turn table in the middle and food constantly goes around.   The pictures below are of the meal where we met Jacky and his wife Daisy and their daughter Cynthia (seated in between me and Tessa.)   We've learned at the nicer dinners to pace ourselves so that we have an appetite all the way to the end.  After an enormous amount of food (probably 20 different full sized dishes) they bring out the fruit, and after the fruit, we know there is still another soup and a couple of vegetable dishes still coming.  There is never any dessert served. In watching the Chinese eat at t...

 I'm not sure how many posts are going to be called "Food".  Perhaps I should get a little more creative with my titles.  But for now, it's such a big part of this adventure so there is much to be written and "Food" is inclusive enough to house all musings.  Food is a persistent problem.  This part of our adventure is giving me a run for my money!! 1)  I don't have much cooking equipment (pans, dishes, utensils, appliances...) and I don't want to buy it if is going to be arriving in the shipment because storage is going to be a problem.  So *what* I can cook is severely limited. In addition to this, we are slowly acquiring things like plastic wrap, hot pads etc---things you don't always remember you need until it's too late! 2)  What food I do know how to cook is limited because I can't get ingredients.  For example, you can't buy salt in the grocery store.  Thankfully I found some in packets at Sam's Club, but it is table salt an...