Baozi and more

To those of you unfamiliar with this Chinese delicacy, may I present: BAOZI.
Of course, baozi are not really a delicacy, but a rather cheap dish of steamed pork-filled dumplings, but I find them zhen hao chi - really delicious. They are usually eaten for breakfast, but I just had a bunch of them for dinner tonight. I also drink cappuccino after 11 in the morning, so who cares, right?

Anyway, the baozi in this picture are sold not far from our school, on a small street where a lot of local blue collar workers from the area eat. It's the place on the right in the second picture. You can see a group of my classmates enjoy lunch at the restaurant on the left. John, aren't you proud of us at what dodgy places we eat ? I have to be honest that I haven't eaten there a lot, yet, though the food is good and cheap - 5 RMB for Gung Pao chicken (less than a dollar) and 2.5 RMB for ten baozi. The "problem" is that they don't have menus with pictures nor understand any English. Thus, I have to know how to say what I want to eat or recognize Chinese characters on the menu on the wall, so that I can point to them, even if I may have forgotten how to say them. Once I have that better under control or am just a little braver, I will have a lot more restaurants to choose from! :-) Until then, I'll eat at restaurants with pictures on the menu, or stick to dishes whose names I can remember.