“I still can’t see any snake” One of the students decided that she needs to introduce me to China’s cuisines as found in local restaurants. On Friday we had dumplings, a northern dish available in many flavours with many varieties of sauce. She mentioned two others, one being snake. I was bit hesitant. I’ve seen […]
Winter woollies for trees A couple of weeks ago I noticed that some of the college and city trees had received a fresh coat of whitewash. Last year I saw some of them being painted. Given its really cold with temperatures below freezing at night I wondered why. It is common in tropical areas and […]
Stone Village Recently one of the students took me to visit a village constructed from stone. One of my students had been, enthused about it, showed me photos and so I wanted to go. Stone villages are uncommon in my experience and while I had been to Lijang it was a different kind of stone . […]
A day of food Last Thursday I ate out many times, lunch with a friend, a cake from a roadside stall, dinner from a Peking Duck restaurant and tea from a tea house. At lunchtime we ended up at one of the small local restaurants near the college. We chose our ingredients, vegetables, tofu or meat from […]
Another bus ride Yesterday was my day off and after a leisurely start to the day the presence of blue sky precipitated my movement out the door after I decided on a bus route. I chose to head west because I’ve never been there before and a supermarket was near the required bus stop and […]