Yuxiang qiezi!

I've been nervous to go into little Chinese restaurants full of just locals to eat by myself, but I've been craving yummy local food so I sucked it up and ordered my old standby-- yuxiang qiezi or fish-fragrant eggplant. It's one of my favorite dishes ever. It actually tastes nothing like fish but instead is cooked the same way you would prepare fish, hence the name. I threw in some sweet and sour pork for good measure and some rice to finish it off. There's no way I'll eat all of this but I thought just one dish would be boring! Anyway, I'm super pumped.