In other news, I hope to meet my roommate soon, and we had orientation today, where I met lots of Mainland and international exchange students.
The Office of Mainland and International Programmes (OMIP) took us to the Chinese restaurant on campus, where we had absolutely delicious foods, including dim sum, which are well-known Cantonese dumplings. However, there are a variety of different ones: shrimp, chicken, all sorts of mouth-wateringly delicious things you can imagine can be packed into these succulent dumplings. I originally had dim sum for breakfast and thought it was amazing, so I was excited to find out that we were having it for lunch!
Breakfast
The long one is rice with a kind of gravy wrapped in a rice roll and bamboo leaves(?). There's also a pork ball, and the white one is like a pastry filled with a sweet jam of sorts.
Part of lunch
Shrimp and more yummy jam dumplings
In Chinese restaurants, food is served on a lazy susan, so everyone can help themselves
Sweet and sour chicken, some sort of green bean-type veggie, chicken in a sweet corn glaze, and crab and wintermelon soup.
Also learned about a Cantonese(?) custom: when someone pours you tea, you should tap two knuckles on the table twice. This stems from a story about an emperor who was traveling incognito with his followers. When the emperor went to pour tea for his officials, they wondered how they could thank him, as kowtowing would blow his cover. So the two knuckles symbolize legs bowing, from what I understand...more later!
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