Night out

This is a pretty famous store here in Chengdu where huge numbers of people will flock here for dinner at about 7pm. It's called 玉林串串香。

 

Skewers of meat or vegetables are thrown into a hot pot of either spicy base (麻辣) or non-spicy base. Most people there chose the full spicy pot but we do not want to kill ourselves with their powerful spices so we opted for a mixed (鸳鸯)base.

Our pickings from the kitchen (The skewers were divided into 1RMB per big stick and 0.12RMB for a small one.)

Waiting for the base to boil, look how hungry Gary is.. Poor thing.

Usually for hotpot, they will give us each a dish of either bean paste mix or sesame oil mix for the hotpot items. Once your food is cooked, you take them out of the hotpot and dip the food into this special mix of oil/bean. For this particular hotpot, we were given sesame oil with mashed garlic inside. Talk about artery-clogging...

Anyway the total bill came up to about 70+RMB for 3 of us and we were stuffed. But apparently, according to our driver, each person (for the locals) can eat up to 100RMB at this place! We were totally amazed.

After such an artery-clogging meal, we decided to cleanse our stomachs with something less exciting, but yummy nonetheless. We walked a few stores down the road to a Hong-Kong cafe. (And these stores are just across Gary's office, how lucky is he!)

William ordered a Honeydew shake and it looked really good...

And I had my mango intake for the day with my mango sago without the coconut cream, but replaced with mango juice!!

But poor Gary has to wait donkey years for his. By the time his order arrived, we had already finished our desserts. And we tried to eat as slowly as we could, but....

Apparently they finished their yogurt and they had to make a fresh batch for Gary's strawberry milk shake or something. But it was worth waiting for it. The place was real cozy with nice sofas and ambience lighting. We will definitely visit again.