Tonight we ate at Pizza Hut, as Annie mentioned earlier. We went with our traveling friends from the Bay Area. We took a taxi from the hotel to the Pizza Hut. It was a…shall we say…memorable experience. We waited for quite a while to catch a cab, and we needed two in order to get both families to the restaurant. We ended up taking the first cab and I don’t know that it was necessarily a good thing. We have not been to an amusement park while in China, but tonight we were able to ride in a NASCAR simulator. Our driver had definitely heard the term “rubbin’s racin’” because he was microns away from the cars around us at all times. He had Annie in a perpetual state of horror. About halfway there, she whispered “gimme the translator” and she told Kennedy “I am scared.” There is a picture of the girls where Mia looks very anxious and Kennedy looks nonchalant. It kinda says it all about how the cultures are different between us.
When we got to Pizza Hut, the driver stopped about eight feet from the sidewalk and barely stopped rolling. The fare was 11.20 Yuan, and I gave the driver a 20. He gave me 10 Yuan back. That’s awesome.
The Pizza Hut itself is pretty spectacular. We walked in downstairs and went upstairs via a wood-paneled staircase. We sat in a swanky booth-table with the other family. You can see in the pictures that a Chinese Pizza Hut is not anything like the ones at home. The menu was expanded to include fruit drinks (Kennedy had orange juice), flavored coffees and teas, and five-star desserts. Kennedy had a popcorn chicken pizza. Mia had the Hawaiian style with ham and pineapple. Her favorite. I got a single order of waffle fries and we split it. By the time someone came back with the serving cup of ketchup we had one fry left. The server giggled out loud at her poor timing. The supreme pizza that Annie and I chose was really good. We got personal pans and it was a suitable amount of food.
By the way, I’ve noticed that Kennedy almost never finishes her drinks. Is that weird? Is it a Chinese thing? A teenager thing? She bought a lemon drink three days ago and there is still some left. I can’t figure out if she doesn’t like it or if she’s just a slow drinker.
1 comment:
Hey Annie,
I am so glad things are working out well for you and your family of four. My class saw some photos of the monkeys and laughed so hard. They thought that was the coolest thing until they saw pizza hut in China! They could not believe there was pizza in China. Can't wait till you guys get home. Enjoy the rest of your trip. Take care and see ya soon.
Lindsay
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