Day 91: Hungry anyone?

So, every day when we finish class at 2, we go for lunch (with occasional exceptions, but for the most part). So today, we went to a restaurant that is quite classy and expensive, for a change really, because we always eat at the same places.

So we get there, and we order a weird yoghurt-fruit salad type thing, some Japanese style tofu (which is apparently nothing like tofu in Japan, and is not nice), strips of meat that come with the world's smallest steamed buns to make sandwiches and a beef steak in sauce thing. And rice, obviously.

So the food arrives, and we begin eating. The first three dishes were good, the beef steak thing was weird. For one, it wasn't beef, the meat was paler and didn't taste like beef. But we ate it anyway. The place is also Halal, so it can't be anything to bad.

Then I look over by the big floor standing air conditioning unit, and see a rat. Literally. A huge rat, about 8 inches long. How horrible. We tell a waitress, who laughs and says '不好意思' (sorry) and walks away. And does nothing. Then I see another rat. "Isn't it the same one?" I was asked. Nope, it was shorter, and the tail was grey, where on the first one it was pink. Horrible.

We'd all stopped eating by this point, and were just watching now. I reckon there must have been at least 6-8 rats living there, if not more. And absolutely nobody in the restaurant did anything about it. And other customers that had seen the rats didn't seem to care. Alas, I won't be going there again to find out if they do anything about it.

For those in/going to Urumqi, it's the big one that's part of a hotel on 新医路 with the green sign that specialises in fish, I have no idea what it's called. But avoid it.