I returned and bought some more of the corn pancake biscuit and asked to take some photos. I also found a couple more food ones from Saturday.
This is one of the two revolving hot plates. The mass of yellow is the mixture being levelled by the upside down T stick behind it and steam is rising. The orange bowl contains the prepared mixture. There was a container of eggs under a nearby chair so it must contain some egg too.
This is the shop with the display cases at the front.
This is local restaurant where something is steaming in a giant cauldron.
This is another place where steam was rising. Looks like buns or dumplings were being steamed. While I watched someone handed over a plastic bag containing a few dumplings and the cook placed them in the top steamer, the lid of which is raised in the photo. No idea why apart from the person wanting hot dumplings.
I took some photos of the hostel and of one of its residents.
Some of the basins in the shared bathroom.
One of the resident cats. She appeared, accepted her hommage, immediately hopped onto the top of my backpack and settled down for a snooze. The problem was that I was repacking prior to departure and she had to move. Many Chinese hostels have cats or dogs which may or may not be friendly.
The exterior of the hostel. Some small birds, maybe swallows, have made a mud nest on a ledge just above the entrance door.
This is it from a short distance. The white van is parked on one side of the street and the hostel is on the other so the street is very narrow. Someone is growing gourds across the street.
This is opposite the hostel. The meters indicate the number of families living behind the wall.
This is where you go when you not only have no ensuite, but no bathroom. The courtyard houses were built in the days prior to plumbing and ordinary people can’t afford self installation, hence communal facilities.
Some local shops.