The “Crazy Lady Place”

I have to write about the Crazy Lady place. It’s this little place to eat near my side of campus (west gate) that, apparently, one of the other professors from last year found. Word of mouth worked because this place is amazing to eat at.

Who knows if she just hadn’t seen a foreigner come there before (you wouldn’t know it’s an actual restaurant from the outside), but the first professor who ate there said the owner was acting all frenzied and crazy. Since we don’t know the name of local eateries here (it’s all written in Chinese – and we are lucky if we know the name of food!), it was forever dubbed the Crazy Lady Place. I need to take a picture of the place to show everyone. Most of us professors LOVE it. Toni and I, for example, went there last week and figured we would run into at least Mike or Jane eating lunch at the same time. We walked in and Mike was indeed there. Ha! This just goes to show how much of a loved place this is.

Well, the food there is AMAZING. We get a few dishes that are like none other. Phil is so going to try this food when he comes. If ANYONE of you come, you are going to be brought to the CLP. Trust me, you will never want to leave China when you taste this. I need to take photos of the food, too.

The Crazy Lady isn’t crazy. She’s very nice, just a little boisterous.

Also, tonight I was at the LNU entire campus (not just the MSU branch) foreign expert dinner, which had professors from my branch and from other places, too. I sat next to Joseph, who also teaches my same students. Apparently, he is from Singapore. Also, he will be there in January when Toni and I will be visiting! So Joseph is going to help us figure out where to stay and how to get around or answer other questions. There’s nothing like going to a place when someone who is FROM that country can be of assistance. Hooray!

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