Every day is a culinary adventure in China. Our attempts to order meals like the one above are often limited to having to point out raw ingredients from a doorstep selection such as the one below. We have seen eels, frogs, skewered grasshoppers and all sorts of other raw delicacies available for inclusion in a dinner meal. A little scary when the menu is all in Chinese and the excitement of recognising the character for 'pork' is coloured by the fact that the other 5 characters in front of it may mean 'heart and intestine of'.
Nevertheless we are forging bravely ahead. We have spent about 5 days in two of China's most famous old preserved villages - Dali and Lijiang.
They are both very picturesque and seem to be full of old people doing the work while the beautiful young things sit around and pout prettily for pictures. Parents please take note.
In our continuing search for examples of good English we uncovered the following disappointing restriction when looking to cross Lake Erhai on a bike ride out of Dali:
More to follow from the marathon bus ride through the mountains to Chengdu (Shaun's idea)M
3 comments:
Glad that you are able to post more photos on the blog, very interesting, food selection somewhat daunting. The buns of steel will no doubt come into play during the marathon bus ride, this is definitely turning into a great adventure. JM
Point noted by parents - glad you noticed it too :)
snugs, your dumplings look lovely, muffin
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