Okay, what shall I write about now?  There is so much to see and record but then I always have second thoughts about posting my comments on the web.  Thoughts posted on the Internet never go away.  

The above was a plate of boiled dumplings that Nancy and I made a few weeks ago.  The fillings were eggs and chives, meat and Chinese cabbage.  We ate them with a sauce made up of vinegar, soya sauce and chillies.  You know me, I always add chillies to my food.  The wrappers were made with bread flour with yeast, and then waiting for it to rise a little before rolling and wrapping with the fillings.  The dumplings were then put in boiling water, cold water added again, waiting until the water boiled again.  This process was repeated three times.  Then they were ready to eat.   Yummy!  A couple of weeks later, I started dreaming about steamed buns.  Yes, I can buy them from a street vendor for one Yuan each.  However, I want to make some myself.

Mixing the filling for the steamed buns

Steaming the meat buns

So come another weekend, we made steamed buns.  The fillings were meat with Chinese cabbage, and vegetables with scrambled eggs.  The dough was made with ordinary flour and yeast was used to make the dough rise a little.  Because we did not cheesecloth, we used Chinese cabbage to line the steamer.  After the buns were cooked, we ate the cabbage as well!  Double yummy  here.

 

Here are more pictures of food.  The first was five green-bean ice lollipops.  They were one Yuan each, and so these five cost five Yuans (less than USD 1).  I do not have the picture of another one but one Yuan will also buy a green-bean and a red-bean lollipops, all in one wrapper.  I love to eat one of these bean lollipops when it is a hot and sunny day.

 Enough about food.  I am going to leave you with a link to a blog about going to the hospital in Changchun.  He wrote an interesting posting about his wife's visit to the hospital in Changchun.  Yes, medicine in China is a community business and the patients always need someone with them in the hospital, http://lifeinchangchun.blogspot.com/2012/03/dees-appendix-editorial.html#comment-form.  Enjoy.