We all awoke early on Day 2 in Chengdu, still vaguely jet lagged and headed down our to hotel restaurant for breakfast. The restaurant was set up as a wide series of stations (or theatres, as they called them).
There was an amazing choice of food - the usually boring egg/omelette bar and standard western breakfast stuff, but also lots of Asian selections. The Japanese station had sushi and cold soba noodles with tofu (Mei had this). The dim sum station was enormous, with very good cha siu bao (roasted pork buns - the kids had 3-4 each every morning!).
And my favorites, the noodle bar (where I was completely unable to order what I really wanted) and the congee bar (where I had yummy shrimp congee every day). Congee is a savory Chinese rice porridge and a wonderful warming breakfast - especially when eaten with fried Chinese donuts (you tiao).
I finished off with a handful of sweet lychees and some nice local melon, while the kids had waffles with an insane dollop of whipped cream (we are on vacation after all!).
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