Life in China 2016: A Picture A Day, September 17 – Corn Juice is a fairly common drink in China. I’ve had the basic kind, which is just sweetened corn juice, like the picture on the right, which is from our Pizza Hut menu. This one is served hot and is actually pretty good :-) The other day we saw the sign on the left in a little food court area in Dongguan, unfortunately after we had just had some tea, or I would have tried something new! It was for freshly squeezed corn juice, mixed with other ingredients: red bean, mung bean, black bean, banana, papaya and black sesame, as well as just plain corn. The advertising promotes it as fresh, healthy and natural, saying it is good for the stomach, spleen, protects against cancer, prevents aging and improves memory! Quite a list, if it’s true, I’ll try it just for the last two! You can also buy corn candy and corn ice cream bars here :-) (Thanks again to Leah for the help with translation)
Pizza Hut
Life in China 2016: A Picture A Day, September 2 – One of the chain restaurants we have at the plaza near our home is Pizza Hut. Known in China as 必胜客 Bì Shèng Kè, Pizza Huts can be found in most of the busier areas where we live in China. In all honesty, I can’t even tell you the last time I was in a Pizza Hut in the USA, but, I still know they are different here! They are much more of a nicer sit down restaurant than just a pizza joint. You can get anything from a pizza, called bi sa (pronounced bee sah) to a steak dinner. Being gluten intolerant, I can’t eat the pizza, so usually have a baked rice dish, typically something with sauce, meat, and cheese. Pizzas can be a little different also, in the summer, they had pizza with durian (actually fairly common), now they have one with Beijing duck and cucumber!