Huayan Guest House
Travel Blogs from Chengdu
Some Like it Hot(pot)
... to a hot oil fondue I have had many times in the Alps whilst skiing. So, I confidently picked out a beef platter and a seafood platter for us, not really fancying the soup. However, the waiter seemed to be insisting we have the soup, ‘you must have’ he kept saying. Then it dawned, they weren’t soups, they were broths you cook your food in! Ah, mistake rectified, we had a spicy Thai fish stew and the house special spicy stew, as well as ...
The Metamorphosis Begins (Chengdu)
... anything it had to do with his controlled mental state and his gentleness while doing a slow and stable Tai Chi move. I tried doing some Tai Chi in my apartment yesterday but got pretty bored and started doing some crazy dance instead. I then got in the mood to dance, turned on some Shania Twain, and pranced around my room, irritating everyone in my apartment complex I am sure. These walls do not keep in sound. I then started singing along really loud and decided that I ...
One Big Buddha
... three hours! Oh man, forgot to have dinner! We cycled to a temple, to the backside if the chairman Mao statue, over to the university, along a couple if rivers, next to the football stadium, through the western shopping area and back to the hostel. Frequently one had to avoid pedestrians, cars, motorcycles and one guy on our tour after setting off cycled into a parked ...
Lao countryside and panda's!
... had dinner -> yep, noodlesoup again, it's just REALLY good!
A weird thing about the Lao people, they really like raw green beans dipped in fermented shrimp paste... yuk! They always serve this together with the soup and we always leave it, but all the local people eat it and really enjoy it. Oh well... as long as I don't have to eat it :).
The next day we were picked up early in the morning to go to Luang Nam Tha. We were in the same bus as the ...
Knee-how!
... First day of class the next day, soo not ready to start class and waking up early. We had class at 830am which is the earliest I have ever had a class. It was international business and was 3.5hrs long!! woahhhhhh what did we get ourselves into?? Walking into the class room all the Asian students turn and just stare at us. I always wondered how a celebrity felt walking into a room, and we got a good taste of that. Everyone just staring ...