One of my favorite parts of our travels is when we spend a day with locals in their home. The Donghan village was constantly flooding. This is the same land their ancestors had lived on for 600 years the government came in and have them new land right next to their old land but was on higher elevation. Only the government owns the land v so each resident was responsible for paying to build their own home. They play no taxes on their home but they cannot sell it either. It has taken 25 years to get all the homes built. But still there are several families that only have the shell of their house up and are waiting to raise more money to complete the interior.
We stopped at a local market to pick up some veggies to cook for our lunch. Of course E could only ask the vendors for it by its Chinese name. What a riot that was. We were not allowed to write the names down. Finally we ended up with eggplant and Cucumber. Only the Cucumber was wrong. It was morning glory leaves.
So we cooked together chopping and on the wok. Barry was in charge of cutting up the meat. Then we rolled the dough for the dumplings and finally lunch was ready. After lunch we spoke with our hosts about life in the village before and after the move. To end the day we were taught paper cutting and cutout a wedding symbol.
In the evening we were trying out a western style restaurant for the company. Let's just say, the food when we got it was good but they still serve it Chinese style. Everything at one time. Our ice cream dessert came out before the main course. We laughed and advised our trip leader not to put it on the itinerary.
We leave for Chengdu by train in the morning to see the Pandas before we head to Tibet
We stopped at a local market to pick up some veggies to cook for our lunch. Of course E could only ask the vendors for it by its Chinese name. What a riot that was. We were not allowed to write the names down. Finally we ended up with eggplant and Cucumber. Only the Cucumber was wrong. It was morning glory leaves.
So we cooked together chopping and on the wok. Barry was in charge of cutting up the meat. Then we rolled the dough for the dumplings and finally lunch was ready. After lunch we spoke with our hosts about life in the village before and after the move. To end the day we were taught paper cutting and cutout a wedding symbol.
In the evening we were trying out a western style restaurant for the company. Let's just say, the food when we got it was good but they still serve it Chinese style. Everything at one time. Our ice cream dessert came out before the main course. We laughed and advised our trip leader not to put it on the itinerary.
We leave for Chengdu by train in the morning to see the Pandas before we head to Tibet
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