Breakfast on our own

Wednesday, March 25th

We went to the hotel breakfast on our own this morning, which does not sound like it would be too adventurous, especially since it is still inside the hotel, but it turned out to be a small adventure. To begin with, we tried to pay, but they wanted us to sign it to our room, which was a little confusing since they were speaking Chinese and the ticket was also in Chinese. After sorting that out we walked into the dining room and we were immediately greeted by Frances, an Indian Hotel worker who is there to "help the foreign guests." Once Frances found us, we could never quite shake him Breakfast was an interesting array of Chinese and "American" breakfast items. The American items included hard boiled eggs in come kind of black sauce, and egg bar (you order eggs however you want them cooked), ham like bacon, oranges the size of cherry tomatoes, watermelon, and toast. It was pretty interesting! The Chinese selections included some kind of corn porridge, several rice dishes, some sort of beef stew like dish, "salty fish" which looked like small fish heads, and smelled terrible, and several other things. Frances stopped at our table every two minutes to check on us.

Frances followed us for our entire stay in the Hotel, when we went to check out we found him waiting outside our door (he had seen us at breakfast this morning) to help us carry our bag down. lol!