There's this Dong Bei restaurant in the neighborhood that we've eaten at. The AC doesn't work great and the doors are usually kept open so its pretty steaming inside. The tables and chairs are kinda sticky and dirty looking. We all sanitize our bowls and chopsticks with hot water that the restaurant provides for that purpose. In New York, this place would probably receive a big F from the Health Department. But....my oh my, what amazing food this place has! Tasty and cheap. The owner (who reminds us of HeLan) gives us discounts cause the friends come here all the time. We ate here a couple of nights ago after a party - 14 of us crowded around a table, drinking beer (3 large ones for 10 RMB or $1.50 - i think we ended up with 12), eating skewered lamb kabobs, deep fried sticky sweet potatoes, jellyfish, sweet and sour pork, fried dumplings and so much more. The guys were down to their undershirts with sweat dripping from their faces. It was a night of cheap beer, good food and sweaty friends. What more can you ask for?
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Cheap Beer and Sweaty Friends
There's this Dong Bei restaurant in the neighborhood that we've eaten at. The AC doesn't work great and the doors are usually kept open so its pretty steaming inside. The tables and chairs are kinda sticky and dirty looking. We all sanitize our bowls and chopsticks with hot water that the restaurant provides for that purpose. In New York, this place would probably receive a big F from the Health Department. But....my oh my, what amazing food this place has! Tasty and cheap. The owner (who reminds us of HeLan) gives us discounts cause the friends come here all the time. We ate here a couple of nights ago after a party - 14 of us crowded around a table, drinking beer (3 large ones for 10 RMB or $1.50 - i think we ended up with 12), eating skewered lamb kabobs, deep fried sticky sweet potatoes, jellyfish, sweet and sour pork, fried dumplings and so much more. The guys were down to their undershirts with sweat dripping from their faces. It was a night of cheap beer, good food and sweaty friends. What more can you ask for?
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Wow! Its just the kind of place where if you died because of the food, at least you died happy :)
ReplyDeleteYes, it is. =) It's actually not that dirty. It's kinda like....Kuaile Niurou Mian in the basement before it got rennovated.
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