Beach BBQ

Today, my marketing students invited me to a beach barbecue! I wasn’t sure what to expect and when I looked outside this morning and it was pissing rain, I wasn’t so optimistic!

I went anyway and I had a great laugh! As I said before, this class is definitely my most lively one. Very giddy, not shy, but they lapse into speaking Chinese quite easily!

Anyway, that didn’t matter, since it wasn’t class time! The rain had cleared when we hit the beach in Heishijiao. The lads were waiting with a ton of food and BBQ equipment!

Seems like a good continuation for my last post, continuing the food theme. The BBQ was pretty much the same deal as the kebab things I had on Tuesday. The BBQ thingy itself is just a steel box, in which they put coals. Then they just put the skewers on top and cook away (as you can see in the pic)!

It took them a while to get the fires going, but man, it was good eatin’! They cooked everything: beef (meat and tendons), chicken (meat, wing, neck, heart), lamb, squid, potato, sweet potato, garlic and 馒头 (mantou): Chinese bread.

The students were a good laugh, down to earth and friendly. They enjoyed themselves a lot, had a good old laugh and let off steam! Fair play for inviting me out.