h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i spent a month last year with my family in the town of yangshuo, near guilin in southern china. we taught some conversational english classes and rented an apartment for a month, investigating this one small speck of china.

i LOVED breakfast! it made the day worthwhile (apart from all the other good bits...) and consisted in either a bowl of thin flavoursome broth with rice noodles and some marinated beef slices and shallots and garlic (raw, diced, lots) and chilli (raw, diced, lots) or in a steamer tray filled with dumplings filled with a delicious meat/vegetable/spice combination, deftly made in front of us in the street stall, and a bowl of this delicious thin broth and all provided with large jars of crushed chilli, dried chilli and soy sauce. and both were often accompanied by a bowl of wonderfully warm soy milk...

it was fantastically social to eat it among the hustle and bundle of this mass of friendly gregarious earnest people in among the smells of life. fantatsic.

they were surprisingly filling and hearty too and kept us cycling through the dough-thick summer humidity for hours.

yum.