Tonight we were scheduled to partake in a dumpling dinner. * Picture an apple dumpling - midget sized! * Our tour group was taken to a famous city restaurant that specialized in dumplings. Dumplings come in all kinds of shapes, sizes, and stuffed with different things. We had duck dumplings (shaped like a duck, of course!). We had walnut dumplings (shaped and colored like a nut). We had rabbit dumplings (can you guess what it looked like?). Chicken dumplings. Vegetable dumplings. Spicy beef dumplings. A total of 16 different dumpling courses were served to our table....with the final course being boiled into a dumpling soup!
Guess what crazy food we had for dessert? JELLYFISH (with carrots!)...mmmmmmmm!
If that sounds wild....this next surprise shocked both of us! While we were sitting at our table enjoying our dumplings....in walks a family that we toured South Africa with last summer! We just couldn't believe it! They are touring China this summer with a different tour group, and we hope to meet up with them again in Shanghai. What a small world!
