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Random Chinese food

Looks: 6

Smell: 6

Spiciness: 0

Satisfaction Factor: 7

Overall: Very good

Price TAG: 40 RMB/2 persons

Chongqing reached the critical temperature last week. City of Hot-Pots and Bangbangs has entered the summer season and temperatures are climbing permanently over 40 degrees.

On Tuesday George pulled me out in to that heat and dragged me all the way to Yangjiaping electro market to check actual offers for cannon lenses. As we were melting in the taxi, his ideas were getting more coutures and I could contemplate on the necessity of air-condition in taxis.

Long story short. A new 70-200mm lens landed on his 5DmarkIII Cannon camera, which offered me an unique opportunity to try his old 24-105mm lens as 2 of my shots were dedicated to Random food.

One underground passage in Jiefangbei is serving great food. It is super busy in the lunch and dinner times, but when you ar elucky you can squeeze in. Me and George were right on time before they closed. We ordered 3 dishes and payed exactly 50 kuai with 2 drinks.

One dish was boiled beef, second one yellow beans and last one a variation on mashed potatoes. Although we wanted some noodles. This particular shop is focusing only on rice. So two bowls of rice and we could eat. I must say I was really positively  surprised and when in proximity I will definitely pay a visit in there again. 

 
As me and George were leaving the closing shop, our bellies were screeming with pleasure and filled with warmth of satisfaction. Totally recommend this one underground restaurant.

Random Chinese food

Looks: 4

Smell: 4

Spiciness: 1

Satisfaction Factor: 6

Overall: Yes

Price TAG: 14 RMB

This time I visited my good old dumpling restaurant but tried something totally different. I reached for the menu and searched for a know words. 鸡 – for chicken, 牛 – for cow and 肉 – for meat.

Found cow and meat in one row and decided to give it a try. I was hoping that a nice beef steak will arrive in front of me, but instead the usual rice, egg, spicy pickles, fried vegetable, slice of tofu with a little bit of boiled beef occurred.

 
It was worth the try. As I was hungry I did not complain and devoured all that was on my plate. Even though there was not much meat, I felt pretty full.

Random Food Special – BIG Chongqing shrimps with Tom

Looks: 6

Smell:5

Spiciness: 5

Satisfaction Factor: 5

Overall:  Good

Price TAG: 60 RMB

Remember the fishing last week? Even though we did not catch anything, we had a backup plan. Tomas is a real gourmet and he wanted to introduce us this special hot-pot restaurant. As he claims, with the biggest shrimps in Chongqing.

We took a cab to Yangjiaping on the other side of Yangtze river, close to the Olympic stadium and descended into the bowels of western Chongqing.We could say that the restaurant is good by the amount of people waiting in front of it. We were assigned number 19. But in less than 20 minutes we were seated and could place our order. The biggest Shrimps you have!We added also some fried vegetables, rice and tofu.

As we were obviously pretty lame in departing the good and the bad parts of the shrimps, Tom called fu er and let her do the hard job for us. She was super fast. Professional work indeed. 30 shrimps in few minutes. We could eat them right away. Even when almost peeled, they were pretty hard to manage.

Not because of their size, but because of their temperature…mainly. It was still a hot-pot restaurant and the meals were served in a constantly heated pot. Putting one of those monsters in your hand almost burned it. And you have to clean it from the shell, slice it and crunch it.

There is no good grilled and spicy meat without a properly cooled beer. And we had quite a few that evening. Although seafood is not my cup of tea and we had one of the worst tables available it was a great experience – Still Grilled fish is better 😉

After great afternoon we had amazing evening in special restaurant Chongqing – Yanjiaping.