The cuisine this trip has been very local Shandong… or even Jinan, food. To give you an idea of our diet, below are a few pictures. Lets just look at breakfast… about the only Western item is bread, which can only be toasted in a toaster oven that only heats things up. It doesn’t really toast. The first pic below shows Joseph wrestling with the toaster.

The remaining pictures illustrate a variety of Chinese dishes including one that looks like veggie scrambled eggs. Of course there is also old faithful fruit that is quite fresh. We learned that Shandong apples are often exported to Japan. (Yesterday we tried home grown cherry tomatoes at the centre that were incredibly fresh and sweet.)

And finally, okay okay, there is one other Western item at breakfast: Coke and ice cream. But honest, Karl is… um… the only one having Coke floats.