Wangfu Hotel Lanzhou
No. 515 Anning West Road, Anning District Lanzhou, Gansu, China
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Not a Domestic Goddess
... potatoes. (That involves suspending the meat on a metal plate and putting the lid on the wok). I bought a bag of flour and discovered instant yeast in the supermarket – next up bread rolls, though I fear that may be too much of a challenge. It's not that we don't like Chinese food, we love it. It's just that my expertise is limited to chopping everything up and throwing it into the wok. That’s fine, and sometimes it’s tastes ...
First steps on the Silk Road
... with ethnicities of Persia, Central Asia, Japan, Vietnam, Tibet, and India living in Chang'An, while green-eyed, blond-haired dancers attracted visitors to its many inns. Our next step on the Silk Road took us to Wuwei, home of the Bronze Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow. The horse is a masterfully crafted bronze by an unknown artist, made about 2,000 years ago and found in a Han dynasty tomb. We visited the tomb in Wuwei, ...
Wedding Day in Lanzhou Brings back Fond Memories
... dressed in a traditional red Chinese wedding gown, and her friends and family.
After spending several minutes at the main entrance gate answering questions designed to test the groom's worthiness, the men climbed the six flights of stairs to the apartment -- there is no elevator in these buildings. The questions were just the first of three tests the groom had to pass before being granted admission.
At the door to the apartment, the groom had to answer more ...
Central Gansu
... and confusedly not knowing what on earth to order that made me panic. Had I been with someone then I probably would have been more adventurous. Instead though, I picked a few bits up from various stalls, grabbed a couple more alcoholic ginger beers and went back to my swanky room for a bit of a feast.
The following day I was scheduled to leave. My train wasn't departing until 5pm so I had most of the day to kill. Thankfully, my peculiar 6th floor hotel ...
Arriving in Lanzhou
... meals and enjoying a few cups of peach juice from another stall, we took a walk down the main road to a KFC store for some dessert. It turns out the service that the Chinese are famed for, very efficient and slightly rude, must be a peculiarity of their restaurant service in the West, as we must have been in the queue for almost half an hour, then the delivery of our order was messed up, but it was all very friendly. And from talking to one of the rare English ...


