New Year junk food

Came back to the hotel room and found these things on the table. Two large mandarin things, an envelope with some faux-colate coins and a box containing a rice cake.

Individual packages for mandarin things, sweet.

The problem with chocolate in China, is that it often tastes nothing of actual chocolate. In this case, eating these faux-colate coins reminds me of dirt. I have no idea why I ate them both :-)

This isn't some soft pudding. It is a heavy solid brown lump. I have no idea what it is, but I hope it doesn't taste as innocuous as many other things do to my western palette.

This should illustrate how solid it is. I could drop this out the window, and have it land on a car leaving a fair dent.

Here's the cooking instructions. There's a variety of ways in which it can be prepared.