Jinding street barbecue

So ten minutes down the road from BNU is a small town called Jinding. Every night, stalls are set up along the main road selling food; barbecued meat, fish and veg, hotpot is also available (not the Northern England style hotpot, but the Chinese version: a large pan of stock into which are dropped your ingredients of choice for a short time and then taken out and eaten with noodles or rice, quite often with a bit of the liquor from the pan)
The smells can be inviting or a bit full on, depending on the products being sold, some of the mainly meat based stalls are a bit overpowering and are accompanied by a slightly rank rotting smell....not good.
Each stick (you'll see them below) costs between 0.5 and 5 Yuan which is the equivalent of 5p to 50p (UK))
so you can choose 3 or 4 veg, a bit of meat and some noodles and it'll come to about a $1.50 (US) (my keyboard has no pound symbol...sorry). A plate of dumplings, usually made from minced pork, cost about 40 cents ....with a little dip made from vinegar, chilli paste and some coriander...they are awesome.
Anyway it's a spectacle, here're a few pics. These ones are DSLR, hopefully you can see the difference from the last lot.

Hand making noodles

Assorted ingredients waiting to go in the hot pot, take your pick on a stick.

The hot pot in action, complete with smiley faces

Or you can have them deep fried

Largely unidentifiable ingredients

My favourite; freshly steamed dumplings

Duck, very commonly seen like this