Traditional Huizhou Meal

We went to dinner with MT and his family (a family moving from Malaysia for Cree for 1 year), and YC (our resident helper/food orderer/translator).  YC took us to a traditional Hakka restaurant.  There was a main restaurant and then tons of little huts along the pond.  At the entrance there are pools where they keep the fresh live fish.  As I watched the cook get a large fish out of the pond the fish jumped out of the net straight towards me.  I freaked a little causing everyone else (including the restaurant staff) to laugh.  Don’t worry I got out of the way before I could get “fish slapped”.  We had a hut reserved and YC ordered our meal (chicken…yes with a head, fish floaters…at least that’s how they were described, meatball soup, beef stir fry, veggies, rice, ribs, tofu, and something mushy that tasted really good).  The thing I appreciate about the Chinese is that they use gloves when they eat wings, or chicken or anything messy. 

This is the resturant...each little hut is a private room

YC, Adam, and MT's family (another Cree ex-pat from Malaysaia)