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Dali Dali Dali Daaaa
... Sichuan peppercorns in but they are seriously the hottest things ever. Your whole mouth goes numb and then you have pins and needles for about 15 minutes after. Like a food induced stroke.
To take a break from Ableton, Michael went on a wander and ended up playing chess with an old man. Who, of course, kicked his ****.
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Mountains, Massages and Masterchef
Dali really has turned out to be quiet a special place! Originally we saw it just as a stop off place as one of hannah's friends had reccomended it to us, and even lonely planet advised us to many western tourists now skip it, however who listens to lonely planet now a days (But that's a totally different debate)!
The instantly calming nature of this place has given us a chance to relax and escape the busy cities of Asia, it has not however mean't ...
Dali: Appropriately Surreal (Was it all a dream?)
... skew towards these sweet potato noodles. Basically it looked like sweet potatoes mixed with flour to form a gelatiny paste, which is steamed solid and then sliced into noodles. Too bad my stomach had shrunk to nothingness and I couldn't smell or taste a damn thing, so I moved on.
Heading back to the hostel, I was exhausted but it was only lunch. That meant I had to find some way to get around Erhai lake. Looking at my options, I settled on a small town ...
Cooking school in Dali
... new part of the city. Here we would have to rush to get tickets (hopefully there would still be some available) and get on the once a day train to Dali.
After some crazy packing and rushing down to the old town, we approached the bar to see our cooking teacher sitting in the sunshine on one of the seats out the front. She greeted us warmly and introduced herself as Luxi (pronounced Looshi). She handed us three small hand held wicker baskets and lead us down the busy ...
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore
... the natural border between China and Tibet and it was an extremely surreal feeling looking at the mountains and knowing that Tibet was just on the other side of them. During our two days in Dali the weather has been very drizzly but as we took in the views the heavens opened and we retreated to the hostel to get some more research and planning done for the rest of our time in China. Originally we planned to split our time in the south of China between three ...


