There are lots of restaurants outside the east gate of the university. One of them is the round table pictured. Unlike most established eating establishments this one is on the sidewalk. Stools and a boiling pot of soup in the middle with lots of sticks poking out of it. You pick the sticks you want to eat and when done - the owner counts how many sticks you have for the cost. It was 11 yuan ($1.60) for BOTH our dinners. And Cynthia and I had lots of sticks…… rice noodles, beef meat balls, mushroom/pork meatballs, mushrooms, tofu, green lettucey things, lotus root, bamboo shoots, and a couple more that I can’t even describe. It was spicy and good and cheap and surprisingly filling.
