What would you like on your pizza?

How to have five hours of fun? Make supper with teammates. 

Step 1: Decide on a menu. (Brenner aka breakfast for dinner didn't make the cut tonight.) We decided to tackle making homemade pizza and apple cobbler. 

Step 2: Make the pizza dough. Kneading dough is therapeutic for me so I enjoyed this step.

Step 3: Realize that you only have tomatoes, onion and cheese for pizza toppings.

Step 4: Visit the street market outside campus to search for pizza toppings. 

Step 5: Discover the market sells primarily fruits, not veggies.

Step 6: Buy kebobs that have veggies on them (aka tofu, chives and mushrooms).

Yes, these are mushrooms! They're awfully chewy. They have tofu (pronounced dou-fu) rolled around them.

 Finished result! We were only feeling half-adventurous so we only did half of it with our street market findings. It tasted unlike any pizza I've had before. That describes all the pizzas I've had while in China.

 We do plan to eat the chuanr (串儿). Chuanr sounds like you're saying "chew wahr" with a piece of bubble gum in your mouth. We often like going to restaurants that sell kebobs because they flavor everything so well and each kebobs is 2-8 yuan (less than $1USD). However, the vendor on the street only charged 1 yuan and they were delicious! Also, it's easy to spot a chuanr restaurant because it'll have a sign with the (串) character that looks like two pieces of mutton on a stick. We also made a delicious apple crisp. It tasted like apple crisp from the states. We were a sight to be seen running from store to store (there are 4 convenience stores each with slightly different products below our dorm). We were in search of vanilla ice cream. Our search was successful in store #3.