We could recognise the numbers on this menu and placemat, but that’s as far as our understanding went. We were, once again, in the safe hands of Shù sōng, foodie friend from Chengdu, China, who did all the ordering. We were on the way to Leshan, home of the Big Buddha, but then we made a slight 50 kilometer detour so that we could try the noodles at this restaurant in Yibin. He ordered a huge number of dishes and then we finished with a small bowl of noodles!
Yibin is situated on the confluence of the Yangtze and Minjiang rivers in Western China.
This post is in response to the Daily Post’s theme this week, Numbers.
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Good one! I have a friend who has a tattoo at the base of her neck. Her husband says it says true love forever. She reckons for all she knows it says No75, Fried Rice. A bit like your menu
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Yes, It could have said anything, but, in the hands of our friend, it translated to heavenly dishes. A few nights later though, he ordered a bag of fried pigs ears- we passed on that.
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I’ve eaten pig’s ear and loved it….
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It was a the only night off eating- we had fried rice,( the first time in a two week Chinese trip) he had the pigs ears, then he and Tia went to his room where he knocked them off with beer and watched a whole mini series of chinese subtitled’Homeland’s on DVD in a tiny ancient town in Sichuan. It is a small world now.
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Salivating
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Lots of oily hot chill and Sichuan pepper berry in that lot. Song drives around China as part of his job so he knows all sorts of good places, and scary back roads.
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What an adventure! I would have loved it, pigs ear and all. I hear they are quite crispy.
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The ears are all yours.
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What were the noodles like? Were they worth the detour?
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Everything’s worth the detour in Sichuan Province- it’s all so amazing.
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I would have passed on the pigs ear! Looks like you thoroughly enjoyed this meal 😃
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How lucky to have a foodie friend to order but to also reveal the best, insiders places to go.
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Yes, very fortunate. Shame China isn’t a little closer. I love the place.
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