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For breakfast Chinese people eat a type of 'porridge' as they call it. It is actually rice boiled so much that it turns into a soupy goo. They eat these with chopsticks, not a spoon. I'm not sure what they have against western utensils, but they are hard to find around here. The school gave each of us (the students and myself) a spoon on the first day and told us to keep it with us and bring it to each meal because they will not have spoons in Chinese restaurants or in the school cafeteria. (Pictured above is breakfast & lunch from the school cafeteria.)

So far the food has been very good. Some of the foods have very strange textures that are hard to get used to. The other day we had seaweed soup with lunch. The texture of the seaweed was unlike anything I've ever had. It was very good soup once you got over the weird texture of the seaweed. I have also tried the noodle stand across from the school. They make the noodles right on the sidewalk in front of you as you wait for your food. Here too they serve you a noodle soup with chopsticks. You would slurp the noodles using chopsticks and then pick up our bowl to drink the soup.

The French Concession, the section where I live in Shanghai, has many different kinds of restaurants. For example, last night I had dessert at a Creperie, a French restaurant that specializes in crepes. There are several French bakeries around this area. There is also a few Irish Pubs and several Thai restaurants. So there is plenty of different types of food to eat if you get tired of Chinese food!
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