Good noodles!

Went to a very cool noodle shop in ShiHuiFang today. Its called DongWu Noodles (东吴面官). Its a chain so you can find it in other places in Suzhou. Trivia fact: Dongwu used to be the name of Suzhou during the Three Kingdoms era. Anyway, its clean with sort of traditional Chinese decor. About 5 shops down from Bullfighter, which is on the XingDu Rd. (星都街) side of the shopping street.



Basically, you order either red soup or white soup. Then you order toppings. The red soup is a little sweet, but I thought it was OK. The white soup is salty. The soups are lighter than, say, LanZhou lamian. The noodles were fresh. The toppings were pretty good...but made for Suzhouren, so sort of bland.



We ate 2 bowls of soup (although most foreigners who are not on diets would have one bowl to themselves), 2 orders of wheat glutton balls, 1 fried greens, and Hongxiao beef. Total cost was 39RMB. Next time I go, I think I will try the fried noodles or the fried niangao (rice-noodle-thing). The staff was relatively good. On the plus side, the greeter pro-actively took our stroller and made us feel good. On the bad side, they only gave us two spoons...at a soup restaurant.

Company Christmas Party

Super Jewish Japanese Powerrangers have come to kick butt at the Professional Way Ltd. Christmas Party!


In this picture you can see many of the hot, very very intelligent, very very under-paid women I work with. We did secret Santa. Spending limit was 20RMB (about $3...hey...did I mention we are all under-paid?). I bought three pirated French DVDs (the Red, White, and Blue movies from that French Polish director Whatshisface) for my French speaking co-worker. I received a little toy car which I'm sure only cost like 5 RMB.


See the blondie? He's taller than me. Looks dorky IMO but Chinese girls go crazy for the blond hair. Guy sitting at the back is my boss of 4.5 mostly happy (yet underpaid) years, Dr. Gene Dorris, Phd. in spurrious Mao ZeDong quotes.


Akiva started teaching Kenaz and Issac (Gene's son...same age as Kenaz) break-dancing moves.


Christmas party break-dancing dance-off was pretty fun to watch.

Hanukkah - Day 1 Food

Potato Latkes, made with two eggs, two potatoes (strained to reduce water), cilantro and one onion.
Turnip and Beef soup, made with turnip, beef, and cabbage.
Home-made apple sauce, made with apples.

Other things happening lately:
I'm working on a cool consulting project
We need to find a new Aiyi in January :-(
First day present was lightsabers. One broke already, but I fixed it. Now my children have new weapons to fight with.

Christmas Party at School