The rice roll came in a shallow pool of soy-based sauce, with the egg almost fused into the rice sheet. Unlike popular cloth-pulled cheung fun (布拉肠粉) in Hongkong or oversea Cantonese restaurances, Shantou-style cheung fun is usually served whole rather than cut into pieces.
The soup had handmade Shantou beef balls and watercress. Shantou beef balls are famous for their springy texture because the beef is pounded repeatedly until it becomes elastic. The soup was simple but very comforting, with scallions, celery, and fried garlic giving it a warm aroma.
The rice roll was 25 RMB, and the beef ball watercress soup was 10 RMB, so the whole breakfast was about 35 RMB, roughly 5 USD.
by DirectBudget1107