Hangzhou Snack Street

Yesterday we had our normal morning class (grammar and textbook based.) I took a nap after class because I am still not feeling well and was surprised by lunch from Julie! she picked up my favorite dish from the canting (the foreign students cafeteria,) di san xian. Its three treasures of the earth and has potatoes, eggplant and either peppers or …

After we all woke up terribly late, it was a mad scramble for everyone to get showed and downstairs by 7:00. But much to my amazement, everyone was packed and ready to go (but we were certainly not bright eyed and bushy tailed). After leaving Shaoxing, we traveled by bus for a nap filled hours until we reached the beautiful city of Hangzhou. Even …

... how many cold ones were consumed!! After we met up with Team C, we headed off to the night market and an area called "Snack Street". They sold everything, skewers, rice, whole chickens (including head & feet), duck, rat...yes rat! And much much more. ...

... a few souvenirs I had bought as presents for friends in Germany were double the price here. I love Kunming :) And there was quite a nice snack street where I had to take the really tough decision on what to eat. I did a good job picking I think, at least ...

... with a pub crawl down the "bar street," but it was a Monday. Tuesday, still dreary and sometimes rainy, I hit a snack street for lunch.  Something like 27 stalls each selling some street grub for no more than $3, and an explanation in English ...

... about the museum. Unfortunately it did not work and we were unable to go in. The next portion of our adventure involved looking for a snack street. We had the name of the street and were told it was close by. It turned out to be about 20-25 minutes ...

... that would be cooked and eaten and bring it here to live. After walking and biking around the lake, we visited snack street. "Snack street" is actually souvenir store street and we spent about an hour walking around looking for food. We finally found a ...