J+97 invited for traditional dinner ..

This evening I had the honor and privilege to be invited for supper by one of my school mates, at her grandparents home.
She told me her grandmother (fathers mother so "奶奶", for the mothers mother we say "外婆") was very excited about cooking for a foreigner!
Her family welcomed me so warmly, we all laughed happily together, in Chinese.. They didn't speak a word of English!
They had asked me two days earlier what I usually fancy eating, I answered "I can try anything!!" ... The people who know me, will remark a change here; indeed, I have decided to be the most open minded person Nanjing people will ever meet! I give this answer all the time, I used to be a little .. Insecure maybe, (I always sticked to habits, yeah, a form of security..daily routine, don't try so many new things..)
Now, on the contrary, I hear many people saying "the French girl likes everything, she tastes everything, she's so sunny, so happy!"
I just wish my parents would witness that! .. I look back on my stubborn behavior, refusing to have a taste of something ..
The girl, who's name is Yan Ling, is in grade 11, one year above my grade, so she's my age. We didn't take any pictures, I regret it, but we didn't take our phone to eat so I couldn't. This picture was taken by her father, before we arrived. (They insisted, asking me what I liked to eat.. I said I liked vegetables, as you can see, 奶奶 got the message quite clearly!)
We had ribs, (delicious), Fish, rice, soup, crab, shrimps, beef, vegetable, fried egg, spicy omelette... We drank coconut milk, this dinner was so tasty!

Later on, we went back to her home, after having said goodbye to the grandparents, (they invited me to come back, as often as I wanted.. That's good to know!) we went back to Yan Lings home, not so far.
I stayed about an hour, with her parents and herself, she has a beautiful flat, very homely, colorful.
We ate (again...) fruit, biscuits, and drank one of my favorite drinks : warm (homemade) soya bean milk, it is specially good when we have this cold weather..
Her father took me back home.
(Of course, useless to mention during all of that time, my sister, had been hardworking in her bedroom.. I found out she is probably the only student in her grade who works this intensively.. Because the people I go out with are her classmates!)

Tonight I also realized, that my friends here, were all part of the students who "applied to receive me"! This is maybe the 10th time, I meet a friends family who tell me they had filled in the form, and were willing to welcome me for a year, and are very sad they weren't chosen!

Unfortunately the only photo I have of Yan Ling is her QQ profile one.. So not very natural!