I was just eating my lunch, a pathetic offering of Lanzhou Lamien, delivered by moped from the nearby town. I asked them to separate the noodles from the soup but they didn’t bother, by the time it arrived the noodles were like mashed potato and I had to eat them with a spoon (well, the two or three mouthfulls before I threw the lot in the bin).

What’s more my colleague couldn’t be bothered to wait for an appropriate time to order so they ended up arriving at 11:25 (in the AM), which is pretty much breakfast time as far as I’m concerned, it’s going to be a long wait until teatime (dinnertime for non-northerners). Oh, and she deemed the menu item I asked for to be “too cheap” for me so she ordered the most expensive one (6rmb instead of the 4rmb one I wanted).

Anyway, I sat down to eat while reading a book (Among the Russians by Colin Thubron), straight away one of my colleagues came into the kitchen looking concerned and said:

“you shouldn’t read while you are eating”

“what???”

“yes, it is bad for your health”

 

Ah well, at least they’re looking out for me, but seriously, where do they get these ideas from?

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