Piggy Buns

Life in China 2016: A Picture A Day, November 7 – Steamed buns are a very popular food in China. You can get them with all types of fillings. I can’t eat the steamed buns being gluten intolerant, but they look delicious! In the mornings, you walk past shops with huge steamers piled high (but I can’t find my pictures right now :-( ) Quite often, you also see these cute little piggy buns :-) I think they usually have BBQ pork in them, but not always. The top picture is some piggy buns for sale at the larger supermarket we shop at in the next town, and sometimes buy some Dim Sum. The other pictures are frozen buns you can buy at the supermarket nearer to us. They have panda bears and brown bears as well as piggies. They are more of a sweet snack or dessert with custard or red bean filling.

It is time for another break from my daily pictures, tomorrow, Leah and I head for the USA for 3 weeks. I will post random pictures as time allows. In the meantime, feel free to heck out my old blog from when we first came to China! http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/covemom/

Water Chestnut Cake

Life in China 2016: A Picture A Day, June 24 – During the cooler months we used to always enjoy having sweet potatoes and tea after shopping at the larger supermarket in the neighboring town. Unfortunately, sweet potatoes seem to be considered a “winter” snack and they are not available already cooked since we have returned from the USA. So, today, we checked out the prepared dim sum at the supermarket. I guess this would be equivalent to the section in the USA with salads, coleslaw, or side dishes, etc. There are so many choices! We decided to each have a slice of water chestnut cake.  I posted about fresh water chestnuts back on March 24 and included a picture of my homemade water chestnut cake… now you can see the “real” thing! After we finished our shopping, we bought iced green tea at our favorite “after shopping” place called “Happy Sweet Potato” and ate our dim sum with it :-)