shaolin boxing punch chicken

Think of a bulging Swiss cross. Now turn that into a ceramic plate that has blue lining. Now pile that plate full of chicken cubes, peanuts, carrots, different sorts flaked red stuff (more on that later), an assortment of vegetables, and a dash of sesame seeds. Now drizzle on a moderately viscous sauce that has a reddish color and you have Kung pao chicken. Now, pull out your standard, cheap plastic chopsticks and dig in. What? Your mouth is burning and you just tried the sauce? Oh yeah, it’s a pepper sauce. What, you ate a piece of that red flaky stuff by itself?! Oh yeah, they’re an assortment of peppers that alone are like drinking Tabasco sauce and eating a habanero pepper at the same time. And now, to add to the scene, you are in a college cafeteria that only serves tea. The only source of water is said to be a ten minute walk. It turns out to be about twenty. That was my first experience with food on this trip, in China.