The usual, please.

This little boy, though.

He is my favorite part of this entire week. So we visited this restaurant earlier because we walked the two miles to buy train tickets and were famished when we got there, so on the way to the main road, we saw a giant picture menu and knew we had to go.

This is our second time visiting the restaurant. We pointed at the dishes we wanted, and they brought us out a dish with noodles, beef, and leeks, and another with rice, eggs, tomatoes, and peppers. Both were incredible! This little boy was having the time of his life walking up to us, getting shy, and skittering away. The sweet owners then brought out a small plate of pickled seaweed. It was actually pretty good! Then, they brought out some herbal tea. I actually wonder if it was actually soup haha... But it tasted like strong chicken broth with cilantro. THEN they had the little boy bring us a baked sweet potato. Oh my goodness it was delicious! AND THEN, they had him bring us two orange fantas with a bottle opener for each of us. He'd creep up toward the table, nervous about dropping the drinks, set it down, give us an ear-to-ear grin, then run away.

After the delicious meal and being EXTREMELY full having only eaten about half of what they put in front of us, I handed them a 100 RMB bill to see how much extra they were going to charge us. The man gave us back 82.

He charged us 18 for everything. Less than three dollars.

I am so grateful for the amazing friends we've made on the streets. No, we don't speak their language. But we buy flatbread from our bread lady. We buy lotus root and other things from the lady with the kind eyes and she doles us out the same portions we asked for the earlier day and lets us try new things. Our fruit woman always greets us with a huge smile. Just outside our complex, there's a gate with a guard in a small building. We named him Henry! Every single time we leave, we give Henry a big wave and a big smile, and he returns the favor. And I'm excited to visit our restaurant at least once a week so we can do them a service by being loyal customers.

I guess you can say we've become regulars :)