Food Update #1 - Subway and Mooncakes

I like Subway.  It's definitely not my first choice when I think about going out to eat, not even my second.  However, things can change when you're in a land lacking sandwiches.  Which leads me to the night in which Sarah discovered that there was an actual Subway in Nanjing.

So naturally, we set off to find it.  And after an hour of searching, we settled for some Japanese food. I decided at that point that the Subway would become our Pegasus...our Moby Dick.  But this fantasy was cute short at lunch time of the next day.  Naturally, while we weren't looking for it, that the Subway presented itself.  So we took the opportunity:

Note Sam chilling in his fresh 54 jersey.

What they lacked in a smaller vegetable selection, they made up for in higher quality bacon.

Eating Subway in that plaza was like putting on a little Western style show for all the locals to stare upon.  Three white people...chowing down on large sandwiches, me looking as Jewish as possible in my Camp Shalom t-shirt, and Sam looking as American as possible in his Chicago Bears jersey.

Later on in the day, Anna took us out for dinner with the new Korean teacher.  The eggplant was lovely, the beef stew was fabulous, and the Baijiu was wretched.  Like...holy shit.  I would describe it as rubbing alcohol with a hint of cinnamon.  But at least it's pretty cheap.  A flask of it will run you about 36 cents at the convenience store. 

At the end of dinner, Anna gave us all mooncakes.  Mooncakes are a traditional pastry eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival.  They are a bit doughy on the outside and are filled with a variety of different pastes.  My box came with four, and I've tried two of them so far.

Enjoy the photo tour of my first mooncake experience:

It came with these little adorable forks...I'm assuming for serving with tea.

I believe this one contained a salted duck egg.

Coming up soon...a post about my first clubbing experience in China!