Breakfast is rice noodles, and you assemble them yourself

Guilin mifen costs a few yuan and is eaten before eight. You get a bowl of noodles with braised beef and peanuts, not a bowl of soup: the pickles, chilli, garlic and coriander are on a table by the door, and the broth is in an urn beside them for you to ladle over at the end.

Point at the size you want, take a small bowl of everything, and copy the person in front of you. Nobody minds.