Now Amy is living in Leshan near Chengdu she already warned me that I might find it difficult to find as many vegetarian dishes as I do in Beijing, I found this out on Saturday night when we took at trip to get some dinner at Jinli ancient street. As there are less foreigners in this area of China in seemed that less people could understand English so I had wrote down on a piece of paper NO MEAT in chinese characters to show waiters. We was walking down the street and went into one restaurant and it didn’t look promising but we asked and they showed a very limited selection by limited I mean 1 side of potato things, so we thought we’d try the next place we showed the piece of paper before entering this time and straight away they said no we walked across the street and the people shouted over from the other restaurant not there!
It was proving to be difficult but we tried another place as we walked in we showed the piece of paper and she just pointed up to the board which was in chinese so Amy and I looked at each other walked out. FINALLY we went to another place and showed the piece of paper and he said ok and took us inside I was very happy! When he gave us the menu and by menu I mean a piece of small paper with only chinese characters on it, me and Amy were laughing and told the man to choose for us because we had no idea! Luckily we ended up with no meat or fish, one of the dishes that he had ordered for us had a strange spice on though that made our mouths feel like they had tingly, vibrating pins and needles in it which was weird.
This is what we ended up with..