Visiting Friends

So I woke up at noon on Thursday because I was real tired from the day before. I called up Meg and went and ate lunch with her. This meal was really good and it reminded how good real Chinese food is. We ordered one of my favorite dishes; gan bian dou jiao/ gan bian siji dou. Its green beans fried with pork and lots of peppers and spices. Its real good. After that I basically went to meet two other girls on the other side of the city for dinner. Laura and Wang Ran were good friends of mine and we used to hang out a lot. We met for Dai food, the Dai are a minority in southern China, Yunnan province. I really love that food as well, its got a unique taste and is very spicy. After that we hung out at a friend of their's coffeeshop. On Friday I met back up with Laura and we watched Ironman in a theater. After that we met Wang Ran for dinner at a Xinjiang restaurant. Xinjiang is at the far western edge of China. Basically California if Beijing is New York. Native Xinjiang folk are of the Uighur race and look more like Afghans and Kazaks than Chinese. They are Muslim, and their food is composed of lots of spicy lamb and fried bread. Again, it is one of my cuisines of choice. Again, we went and hung out at the friend's cafe, this time one of their guy friends was there and we encouraged each other to drink a lot of beer. On Saturday is the China Open aka China Nationals. I'm pretty excited to play and it should be fun.