My new favorite restaurant is a small, hole-in-the-wall on the side of the street, alongside many other hole-in-the-wall eateries, featuring my favorite cuisine: food from the Hunan province. The menu is dirt cheap and as such many of my Chinese colleagues are afraid it’s not very hygienic. Can you believe it? Some of them are afraid to try it, but I will. So, what am I supposed to do? The office cafeteria in the basement is foul. I’ve sworn it off since I’ve been unable to polish off my last three lunches due to slimy eggplants, oily bony chicken, or a disgusting dirt gravy and beef. Believe it or not, it is tastier than the second floor cafeteria in the old building, but that’s not saying much. At least that place was cheap. A simple meal at this the new building cafeteria runs about $1.09. A pricey one pushes two bucks. Both are pretty bad. Anyway, the Hunan restaurant is about the same price. We each eat lunch for about a dollar and it’s mighty tasty and spicy. I haven’t gotten sick yet. I hope they’re not putting anything strange and bizarre into the food to make it taste better, I’m sure it’s not quite as clean as it could be, but what’s a foreigner to do?

Enjoy the pic:

And here’s a movie.