Xianhai Square Food Court

We were introduced to this area called Xianhai Square where there are a number of stores and a metro station. There is also a food court area where you buy a card and load money on the card which can be used at the little restaurants in the food court. We've been there a couple of times.

I love to get the soup. It's a build your own soup by selecting ingredients out of this refrigerator case, pick your noodles and then hand your bowl to the lady. She weighs it and then puts your ingredients in a basket and cooks it in this vat of broth. When your ingredients are cooked they pull it out, add broth from the vat to your bowl and hand it back to you. The whole bowl in this picture was 15 yuan which is about $2.50 and is easily shared by two people.

Make your own soup bowl

We also discovered these fried baozi (dumpling). They have a little bit of zhurou (pork) with this sweet juice inside. When you bite into one, it explodes all over. You have to be careful you don't have juice running down your chin because napkins are not available or used here. We get 4 of these baozi for 6 rmb. Very delicious! 

Fried Baozi

 The fried jaozi are very good as well.

Jaozi