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Sweet and Sour
... br> I want a pair of lightweight canvas slip ons to protect my cracked heels, as it's too warm for my boots during day and walking in flip flops on pavement has created the ailment in the first place. I look everywhere but they just don't do size 10s in China. Sheila is understandably getting bored with my by now obsessive scouring of every shoe merchant in Kunming and tells me that she will eat a Sichuan Hot Pot (very, very hot food - ring of fire material), if I find a pair ...
Back to party crashin', this time Dai family
... There was a man cooking something in a pot over a wood fire and something else over a charcoal fire. I had no idea what he is cooking. Then I suddenly realized that these people are cooking this huge meal with no: electricity, running water, or propane. It kinda hit me in the head that people can and do actually do this! No 300$ grill, hardly any utensils, very few pots, dishes. Everyday, and many other places besides this one.
In the food ...
Last Stop in China
... of Manzha has actually been turned into an ethnic minority theme park, where tourists can go and participate in the annual spring time festival - every day of the year (for a fee of course!) Very strange, and we decided to give that experience a wide berth! Interesting article on it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/world /asia/24park.html.
The people we've encountered in Jinghong have been ...
Barfing Across Southern China
... Wait, this is pork" She looked at me with big eyes, "Did you know this pork?"
My face turned white. "No." I said. "And I don't want to talk about it." I tried to put it out of sight and mind, but that didn't stop the pork from making me hug a toilet all of yesterday. After Bing came back from the orchestra director's house he asked me how I was doing. The group was going on a bus ride to a village outside of Lijiang. I couldn't imagine getting on the bus at ...
Funky monks and water festivities
Monday morning we got a flight down to Xishuangbanna. This is yet another region with high diversity in both people and vegetation. We came to meet one of our fellow students who had been doing some fieldwork on the Dai minority. It's increasingly becoming an ethnic park for tourists to come and visit. We might still be in China, but a lot of what we've seen so far is more reminiscent of South-East Asian cultures, like Thailand, than China. We arrive, and were escorted by our friend ...



