Authentic Chinese cuisine

By the time we had riden our bikes up to the ancient village and then found the spot on the river where we planned to get aboard bamboo rafts, it was close to 1:30 in the afternoon. We figured it would take us at least 2 - 2 1/2 hours more to get back into town and we were starving!! We asked one of the bamboo raft guys if there was any place to get some food at and he pointed us to this make-shift restaurant. It was pretty much just a covered porch attached to someone's home where they had about 4 tables set up. There were some other people there eating lunch so we thought, "let's go for it"!

As we glanced through the menu there wasn't much that sounded very familiar; definately no chicken nuggets or cheese burgers. We left the choosing up to Eric and he ended up doing a great job. We still don't really know what we ordered but it was excellent food!

We think this dish was some kind of rice stem or root with green onions and a little meat (could have been chicken or pork -- not sure exactly) but it was so delicious! I'm sure it helped that we were so hungry but the food came out one dish at a time and it was served steaming hot... right out of the wok!

We did know that this was a fried rice dish and it was very, very good too. Every meal is served "family style" where everyone shares what is served and you just use your chopsticks and fill up your own smaller dish with how much you want of whatever you want. So it is just like eating at a lot of Chinese restaurants here. I must say I have never been very skilled with chopsticks until I used them for almost every meal for 3 weeks and now I'm pretty accomplished!
Our very favorite part of this meal though was the 2 liter size Coke bottle that was half frozen so when we poured it into our glasses it was like a slushee -- a really nice surprise for sure!