In the spirit of the Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, my new fruit was the surprisingly delicious and sweet lotus fruit. The lotus fruit was sugary sweet with a chewy texture. I have no idea how to cut it or prepare it but it was delicious almost like a jelly bean.
In past years I've gone with the pomegranate as my new fruit but after a few years I think it loses its meaning. As you can imagine it is very easy to try "new" fruits and vegetables here. I like to think I am have an adventurous palette while in Shanghai but I have fallen into my routine of menu ideas, or as we call it in my family the laminated menu. We eat a lot of steamed rice, fried rice, chicken with broccoli, steamed vegetable dumplings, and noodles. In my efforts to motivate and keep exploring this week I will venture to make steamed bread roles, a Chinese delicacy (which I think would translate into Challah for Jewish but I'll let you know).
I can say with certainty that I did not think I would be celebrating the beginning of 5776 in China if you had asked me at the start of 5775. Just goes to show what a difference a year makes.
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