Fish for lunch

Friday Jason drove me to class due to a change in my normal schedule. Since I only had one class and the campus is an hour drive away Jason was going to wait for me and then drive me home. I suggested to him that if he wanted, he could come and sit in the class and listen. He is learning English(self taught) and he was intrigued with this idea, he decided he would sit in. After class I took Jason to lunch in at the school cafeteria. This is a really inexpensive place, you can eat a big lunch for about one dollar.

As we sat down I told Jason that I wanted to have some fish. Fried and spicy, there is no word for spicy in my phone dictionary, so I come up with hot, but that could be confused with a hot meal vs a cold meal. (Later on the drive home I decided that I should use the word sichun - this is a famous place in china known for it's hot and spicy food, we shall see how that works next time.)
Here is what I got for lunch. Looks good right? Nice hot peppers, white fish and some veg in a nice broth.......or is that broth? Goodness it was a big bowl of oil! Wow! I used the ladle to fish out the fish...hee hee... and vegetables, drained off the oil on top of my rice and then ate it. It was very good once the oil was drained off. I didn't eat the rice as it was just soaked in oil and completely unappetizing.

This bowl of oil fish was enough for 3 or 4 people, the meal included endless cups of tea and 4 small slices of watermelon, cost for this feast? 25 yuan or $ 3.66.