What a Fall Lunch-Time Looks Like on the Streets of China

In a not so well recognized city of China, Qingdao, people go to the street vendors for a lunch time meal.

Workers grab their plastic doggie bags and sit on a couple of concrete stones against a poetic backdrop.

Hard workers take a break and gather around a Chinese street table and eat their lunch in the fresh brisk fall air.

Butchers wait for chefs and people to buy their fresh meat.

Women shop the fresh produce markets for a home cooking meal.  (Are the veggies that are green and shaped like a carrot, carrots?) 

For lunch high-school teens flock the streets instead of going to a customary cafeteria for lunch like back in the states.

Some people, as my dad would say like “road kill”.

No thank you. (What kind of bird would you guess they killed in the bowl below?)

Meat in China is not faceless. Rabbit anyone? No one can complain in China that the meat isn’t fresh!

That was a mini glimpse into a lunch break on the regular streets of China. What does lunch time look like for you where you live? What cultural details do you quickly overlook?