Bon Appetit

By popular demand I'm adding some pictures of things we normally eat over here.  

 This is what the girls eat for breakfast, either this or peanut butter toast.  This is some kind of flat bread, it has a sweet/spicy glaze on the top.

 Randomly on Saturday's the grocery store will have donuts, these are really good.  They are definitely deep fat fried, not very sweet like American donuts.  They also sometimes have what looks like donut holes, they are very dry and thick, but they are still pretty good.

The girls usually eat peanut butter and jelly or 'ham' sandwiches for lunch.  I found some fake ham slices that make a decent sandwich, not sure what it actually is but the girls like it.

 This is a dumpling soup that Kenz likes.  She has eaten this almost every night for 8 weeks.  I think that she is ready for something new :)

 This is just like fried rice only it is with noodles.  We actually think this tastes a little bit better than the rice version.  There is small bits of chicken, cabbage and onions mixed in with the noodles.  You have to watch out for bones because they don't separate the bones from the meat so if you get anything with meat then it will definitely have bones in there somewhere.

 This is just a bowl of noodles with some different spices on top.  Actually really good.  Madi and I eat this or a bowl of rice every night.  Kyle usually either eats this or dumplings.

 These are deep fat fried dumplings with fish in the middle.  The girls think that they are kinda like chips.  They like them a lot.  Supper for all of us usually costs around $4.  There are several different kinds of noodles you can get, usually Kaylie either eats noodles or rice with me.  Sometimes we get a chicken leg.  That the normal Chinese food in most of the little restaurants here.  The bigger places have more to offer and of course there are lots of different kinds of cooked vegetables and roots that they eat.  There are also places called Dumpling House's that have like a buffet style of food.  There is one that just opened next to the restaurant we usually go to but we haven't tried it yet.

 Madi is getting good eating from chopsticks.  She can suck in all those noodles like a pro :)  Kenz is trying to learn how to use them and is getting better all the time.

 This is a Chinese spoon, they use these to eat soup and eat noodles.  Kaylie uses it to eat everything.  The girls have only broken about 5 of these since we got here.

 This is dragon fruit.  Kyle likes it a lot.  I think it is ok, the girls don't like it at all.  It has more of a bland flavor.

 The streets always have trucks of tangerines, banana's sugar cane, and oranges

The Watermelon is good, about 1/2 the size of a normal seeded watermelon in America.  Not sure what the other fruit is called, but it is like a huge grapefruit and that is pretty much what it tastes like.

 This is the meat section at the store, everyone just reaches in and grabs what they want.  And yes, those are chicken feet.

 duck heads

Cooked chicken feet

Huge bins of rice.  You can either buy it in those big sacks behind the bin or you can buy smaller amounts and have it weighed.

We usually eat pizza on the weekends.  We have eaten KFC and McDonalds too, but I would say that the Chinese KFC and McDonalds is actually way worse than the US version, if that is possible :)

 And 11 weeks later our boxes finally came!  We were all SO excited!

 The girls have been playing and painting and drawing ever since.