Obligatory Food Post

- in chronological order, coincidentally also in increasing order of amazingness by location (i.e. skip to Part III for the fancy stuff)
- apologies for low resolution, my 10MB camera takes pictures that are far too large to upload in the original

Part I: Little Cafe in the Central Business District (CBD)
Total cost: 13 RMB/two people (~$1 pp)

• dumplings

• 揚州炒飯 Yangzhou fried rice
  

Part II: International Student Cafe at Renmin University
Total cost: 90 RMB / 5 people, 9 dishes (~ $2.57 pp)

• Kristine and 小籠包 xiaolongbao
  

• 拉皮
  

• Japanese style tofu

• seaweed

• sweet batter fried corn

• 京醬肉絲 (tofu skins and pork with sweet sauce)
  

• spicy Sichuan veggies

• 土豆絲 shredded potato
  

• 疙瘩湯 (soup with clumps of flour.. I didn't translate that right)
  

Part III: 大董烤鴨店 & 鼎泰豐 - Da Dong Peking Duck & Din Tai Fung
Total cost: 805RMB / 4 people, 7 dishes + drinks + 4 desserts (~$28.73 pp)

• Helen and I with the menu (essentially a big studio picture book of food)

• 春筍 bamboo shoots
  

• 宫保蝦球 kungpao shrimp
  

• jellyfish

• unknown veggie

• cod buried in salt bonsai garden

• cod excavated from salt bonsai garden but now wrapped in leaves

• tofu soup

• condiments for Peking duck

• wrapper for Peking duck

• cutting up the Peking duck

• Peking duck, in pieces

• this is how to wrap Peking duck

• Peking duck wrapped and finally ready for consumption

• 杏仁露 almond dessert

• fruit atop smoking dry ice

• Wrigley's gum served on a plate

• almond tofu shaved ice

• combination shaved ice