Fr Jose and Christina came for lunch today

We had xianbing first.  However, it is Ruyi Xianbing 如意餡餅  because I have changed the xianbing's shape. Ruyi Xianbing allows for all the wrapper becomes lovely and crispy - no hidden bits of wrapper inside the xianbing - which is like uncooked dough. 

如意餡餅

We then had zhajiang fan 炸醬飯 and Koreans call this Jjajang bab.  I found I only took a picture of a partially cooked sauce with the pork on top of the prepared sauce.  I wanted to serve this Italian / Spanish rice with the sauce instead of the normal noodles.  The rice is really delicious and I love it very much - the grains are short and fat!  

I plan to write up a recipe for this zhajiang mian sauce so you can try it out yourself, in a future posting.  I need to think about the bean sauces.  We Chinese use lots of different types of bean sauces and they all have different Chinese names.  However, in English, we call all of them bean sauce.  So you will just have to get ready to learn HanYu PinYin to name these sauces in Mandarin.  I cannot just say this bean sauce and that bean sauce.  LOL

We then had a chocolate marble cake after the meal.  Apparently, I found out that this was originally a German cake.  Fr Jose loves chocolate and I add a lot more than usual.  This is an adapted mum's recipe.  Fr Jose asked me which cake do I like the best and after thinking about it - it must be my mum's marble cake! 

Chocolate Marble Cake

Then gongfu cha 工夫茶 . 

工夫茶

And finally pictures of my guests - Fr Jose and Christina