Sunday is fun day and game day two!

We woke up and decided to have some brekkies at the same 24 hr place we went to the other night.  I wanted something like congee, but settled for a strange type of oatmeal.

This was the cost for the oatmeal below less than $1

It was perfect

The 3rd game of the weekend was played by 2 unbeaten teams, there will be some one getting an "L". The teams are. Beijing and Qingdao.  Arriving at the game was uneventful, cab knew where he was going.

Bill and I wrangled the players again, but we had to lead them through the bowels of the arena to exit from the appropriate locations.   It went off without a hitch.  It looked like Beijing would run away with it, but Qingdao fought back and almost made it a nail biter

I tried to get an "action" shot, but failed miserably.  Thought I let you all see my efforts, and hopefully, forgive my results!

The end of the game pic with victors and cheerleaders!

Dinner was a great find.  Bill wanted something other than Chinese and we walked down a street where we saw an Italian restaurant.  We walked past it to look for a second or third option.  Saw none, and walked back and went in...passed the chef taking a smoke, he was Italian....ok this could be a score!   

It was a great place, again, this is measured up against a diet of Chinese for the last 3 weeks!  We started with burrata, it was fabulous, luscious, creamy, fresh, oozy, just perfect!  Then we had some pasta.  I had a gricia and Bill had a carbonara.  Both were sauced beautifully with flavors that were spot on.  The only weak point was the pasta.  Locally made noodles were not really "pasta".

The chef came out and we talked about China, food, sourcing ingredients.  It was awesome.  Turns out, he is the nephew of the owner.  his uncle came in a short while later and we talked with him.  Nephew is a pastry chef back in Italy and has been helping him for about a year.  Bill was so proud of his choice.  Read his lips over the course of these 4 photos!

Who choose this great restaurant is the question, the answer is "This guy"

The uncle was returning from a bachelor/wedding party with friends.  The group included 3 Italians and 1 Chinese.  They were all busily speaking in Italian behind me, and I could not discern who was the Chinese!  We talked with the uncle for a while asking about what brought him to Qingdao, China in the first place.  And he was a bit evasive about the real reason, but went on to talk about doing business in China.  How to source his ingredients.  His mom sends over the cheeses, olive oil, dried meats, etc.  He felt that importing the pasta would be too expensive as there are "reasonable" noodles locally.  

The nephew told us to have the tiramisu as it was his specialty.  It was good, not too sweet, but the coffee flavor didn't come through enough for me.  I need the contrast of the bitter coffee to the sweet cream.