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Chicken Busin' on the Yellow River + Beijing
... as we're only a few years older than her students. Anyhow, these people live in a tiny little town called Gaoqing, to the northeast of Jinan, but only about 50 miles. Despite the closeness of the destination, it took us half the day to get there and we had to take two different buses. The second bus was reminiscent of Ye Ole Chicken Buses of Guatemala, dirty & slow and not somewhere you'd expect to find a foreigner. In any case, we arrived in time, ...
Afternoon Tea
... time to visit her tea shop. We had already been in a few tea shops on the streets here and there, but Auntie's tea shop was a little different from the other because it had a large wooden table in the center of the shop meant for serving guests. Her shop was no bigger than the rest, but as we found out during our small tour, Auntie sells very good teas in all different ways. She has your basic box of tea packets, cylinders of ground tea, ...
The Home Stay
... Auntie, her sister, and her nephew took me to a fancy mountain-side restaurant. We ate like kings and queens, and enjoyed the beautiful scenery all the while. Then back to Zibo it was for me, and many many thanks to Auntie for all her generosity. I couldn't have asked for a better family to have my home-stay with, and even though I wasn't happy about going at first, everything turned out feichang hao (非常好: extremely ...
Tourist Time
... Museum was actually pretty neat, but the ceramics museum was so so. As a part of our program we have a guide from the university who speaks very good English. His name is Boru (though I'm not sure how to spell it) and he just graduated from high school in May. I'm very impressed every time he opens his mouth to speak English, because it's not everyday that you find someone with such a wide vocabulary in a second language. Boru will be ...
Ganbei!
... sat once he declared to do so. The food was practically feast worthy, and was on a typical rotating tabletop so that dishes could be easily shared. The hosts on our sides put samples of the various dishes on our plates and would asked "Hao chi ma?" (好吃吗？: Does it taste good?). And how could we say no?! The food was absolutely delicious!
One dish was a medium size fish that was in fact very ...
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