We are becoming more brave...

Hi All, Burton again asked me to drop a note about being invited by my students for lunch yesterday. It was quite the lunch - many things we had never thought of trying - surprise - not any more - and some of them are even good - we had sea cucumber and abalone soup, raw trout and salmon with soya sauce and wasabi, cod, eel, shrimp, some little tiny fish - the whole thing - full of eggs, cows tongue, sharks fin soup, and some vegetables that are about as hard to recognize - spinach, bokchoy, pumpkin, onion, and many ???s. Burton did find Haagen Daz for dessert - and they gave you about 1 teaspoon full for who knows how much - it seems to have been at a price of 368 yuans each for the 5 of us. Oh, My. That is a lot for over here - about $65. each - we eat at our normal restaurant for about $2.50 together and bring home enough leftovers for 3 more dinners. Unique foods - we think they do this on purpose to us to see if we will taste it. Better get back to work - have to teach the children tonight - I'm never on top of that one.