saturday lunch

so, i may not have the best photography skills. but here goes. todays lunch was quite the variation on a theme. zhu rou. almost always zhu rou. that's PORK for all you that need to polish up on your mandarin.

today's zhu rou was of the mostly bone and fat kind. deep fried in a sort of sweet/sour vinegar sauce. with yang cong (pronounced yahng tsong) and qin jiao (chin jeeow), which, respectively is onion and green pepper. although red and yellow peppers are called the same thing, so one must be careful sending someone out to the market...

and my veggies? always glistening always varying shades of green-ness. more qin jiao. and i have no idea what the other pale greenish white thing is. maybe bamboo shoots??? no whole cloves of garlic - which generally seems to be almost a given. more zhu rou. ayi likes to hide it in almost everything she gives me. she says "little bit" i say "too much" at least now, my rice bowl is getting smaller and smaller. now i get about an 1/8th of a cup along w/ every meal. i still don't eat it all. but every day it's still there.