{"id":131,"date":"2012-08-05T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T09:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?p=131"},"modified":"2012-08-05T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T09:01:47","slug":"the-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"The Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-131 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?attachment_id=137'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1000574-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?attachment_id=134'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1000415-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?attachment_id=136'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1000572-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?attachment_id=138'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1000734-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?attachment_id=133'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1000414-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?attachment_id=132'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1000279-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?attachment_id=139'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1000736-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?attachment_id=135'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/P1000418-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>So when I said to people that I was going to be living in China for 6 months most of them would reply with &#8216;you\u2019ll be eating cats and dogs!&#8217; There is no way you\u2019ll be able to stay a vegetarian!<\/p>\n<p>However luckily this hasn\u2019t been the case, when I first got here I thought that I was going to struggle A LOT but actually since I have lived with my host family I have really enjoyed the Chinese food I have been given! I am eating a lot of rice, at least twice a day sometimes 3 times a day, I\u2019m not yet sick of it though haha! They definitely cook rice better than the UK it\u2019s got a different texture it\u2019s stickier than rice from home.<\/p>\n<p>So far I haven\u2019t eaten anything to strange (I think this is due to me not eating meat!) Amy however, has tried fish eye soup, chicken claws, turtle soup and duck tongue. She\u2019s decided that the best way to do it is to not ask what she\u2019s eating!<\/p>\n<p>I have tried new things in China as well.. but most of these have been yummy not like some of Amy\u2019s meat experiences! I\u2019ve tried lots of different teas, glass noodles (they are see-through cold noodles), red bean (this is a sweet bean that is used a lot in China), tofu, dumplings and other things that I\u2019m not sure what they&#8217;re called so I\u2019ll take some pictures and post them for you!<\/p>\n<p>Being a vegetarian in China so far has actually been much easier than I first thought, there is always something I can eat when I\u2019m out and about. I have also learnt &#8216;no meat&#8217; in Chinese, which is very helpful, and when they don\u2019t understand my pronounciation I\u2019ve got it written down to show them! (At least I\u2019m trying to speak the language haha!) However I have realised that I can\u2019t be as fussy as I used to be with things I don\u2019t like.. I now eat cucumber A LOT!<\/p>\n<p>Chinese food definitely doesn\u2019t lack flavour, they have a wide variety of different dishes, and a lot of these dishes are cold!<\/p>\n<p>My host mum is a very good cook and she makes a lot of her own food, homemade dumplings, pancakes and lots of vegetable dishes. They also grow their own vegetables cucumbers, green beans, tomatoes and peppers.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t witnessed any cats or dogs being eaten like people say however I have seen bugs, starfishes and seahorses on sticks! Ewwwww! Safe to say I didn\u2019t try them! Some of the bugs on the sticks were still alive!!!! When I\u2019ve been into the supermarkets there has been chicken claws (they don\u2019t look like how I thought they\u2019d look..not sure how I thought they would look?!), a whole duck, I\u2019ve seen frogs and turtles alive (I just had to think of it like a pet shop and really they\u2019d be taken home for a pet and not to be killed and eaten!!).<\/p>\n<p>Chinese people seem to eat big breakfasts big lunches and big dinners..so much for losing weight in China!!! Meals usually come with soup rice then lots of dishes to share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when I said to people that I was going to be living in China for 6 months most of them would reply with &#8216;you\u2019ll be eating cats and dogs!&#8217; There is no way you\u2019ll be able to stay a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/?p=131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenainchina.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}