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Seafood Spectacular
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I'm still subtropical. I just ate the most amazing mango of my life...I don't think it would be too hard to survive on fruit down here. I'd have to get used to all the seafood, though; it's not my favorite type of meal.
Speaking of seafood, we had another aquatic adventure last night. While in town we met this random Canadian guy named Paul who lives in the area. He offered to show us where the locals eat. Well, we ended up at this open-air seafood market that looked suspiciously like the place where that girl ate in the travelogue we watched before the trip. The whole area was about the size of a football field; most of the space was devoted to plastic patio furniture and lots of Asian people. The area in the back, however, was filled with vendors selling their day's catch. You know those basins people use to wash off their sandy feet before coming into the house? Well there were hundreds of those on tables with different sea creatures. They were selling everything from turtles and frogs to eels and octopi. The few things that weren't alive were lying out raw on the table, usually bloody from being recently decapitated. It was like the Little Mermaid gone wrong. Paul, being adventurous, ordered an eel, which they killed by holding down the body and swinging a knife down to chop off its head. The meal was actually pretty good, but we discovered that this Paul was kind of sleazy as he kept trying to seduce the waitresses. If you think our meal was interesting, I'm sure it was nothing compared to the three in our group who went to eat dog tonight. They actually had it special-ordered for them...I felt bad getting a dog killed specifically for me, so I opted out.
On another note, there are finally some more guests at our hotel, about half Europeans and half Asians. There are a whole lot of honeymooning couples...we know this by the silly grins they always wear on their faces. Everyone stares at us...I guess it is a little strange for a group of American college students to be at a Chinese resort in October. We're having fun, though.
Our friends, who are staying in the city, got into a bit of trouble the other day. Martha and Dan went wandering (well, climbed through a hole in a wall) inadvertently into a Chinese military base and started taking pictures. Not the smartest idea. They were detained by some officers and interrogated via translators for two hours. Their memory cards were confiscated and they had to sign a confession apologizing for their behavior and promising never to break Chinese law again. Apparently if they do anything like this again they're in big trouble, as in prison or expulsion from the country. My favorite part of the story: in the police car that transported them from the base back to their hotel, there was a picture of Mao hanging inside a heart in the rearview mirror. I can only imagine what Dr. Kiely will say when he hears this story.
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