the chinese chef

We have it from reliable sources that our blog is quite culinary, and focussed on western food. For the first part it's true, for the second it isn't. A clarification.

Chinese eat rice for breakfast, for lunch and for dinner, accompanied by all kinds of meat, fish and vegetables. During weekdays, we heve our lunch in a local cantine together with the kids and the translators. We couldn't think of a more typical chinese meal: we don't know what we eat, we use chopsticks, we slurp, we burp.

Monday, we thought we could handle a completely chinese day, and had our dinner at a beach restaurant. We picked out our fish in an aquarium and had it ten minutes later on our plates.

The next day, after our Carrefour adventure, Mathieu felt sick. Barbara, still in perfect shape, went jogging. In the meanwhile, Mathieu case worstened (afterwards there was no camenbert left anymore in his stomach) an when Barbara finally came back, she felt sick too.

She spended most of her birthday in the bathroom, and was very happy with the gifts she received from her brother: yakult and enterol.

Today we're starting to get cured, and made it our goal to travel by bus, we made a reservation for a flight tonight to shanghai, but we might have to cancel it if we have to give courses tomorrow.

update follows,

kisses from xiamen,

Mathieu and Barbara