Strange fruit China pt 3
So….
Another day another fruit.
Here’s another fruit from China. See if you can guess what this one is 。
Let me know what you think it is.
So….
Another day another fruit.
Here’s another fruit from China. See if you can guess what this one is 。
Let me know what you think it is.
So… New season, new fruit.
I have this one which looks similar to a shower head.
Got one off the woman for 4kwai (she wanted 6, I gave her 4).
Squeezed a little pea out of it after lunch.
The weather is hot here. Around 36°, although in Sichuan, where I used to work, it is rainy.
In fact some of the houses have been washed away in the very town I used to work!
**Update: I tried some of these fruit and they are like small pea like structures that taste like peas.**
Got invited out for a meal with some Chinese students.
Here’s some pictures.
Janice, Me, Maroon, Vic and Nickel (star pupil!)
So, this weekend is Dragon Boat Festival.
The festival is a celebration of the advent of ‘summer’ (we’ve already begun celebrating here with torrential rain).
Out come the Dragon boats, wine and dumplings.
It’s a three day festival.
Maybe there’ll be some rowdy Chinese puking and throwing dumplings everywhere, (just like it was England), or, maybe there won’t.
We’ll see.
Ok I’ve found out some more about the festival. It falls on the 5th Lunar day of the calendar.
Tommorrow.
These look like a dragons claw. I call them dragons claw fruit.
The children think them ‘hen hao’. I will sprinkle them in my porridge in the morning…
With some members of Linestart.
Had been out doing interviews at potential new school contract with the other members of Linestart pictured here.
This was a kind of fish dish, which you have to very careful not to choke to death on. The bones are sharp and plentiful. I’m not usually tempted by this kind of fish, just because of the bad experiences I’ve had in the past (a lot like women). This time I stayed away also.
We had some other dishes on the rotating table, a pork and peppers with Sichuan sauce, bitter cucumber and egg, green beans and chilli’s, as well as some jasmine tea, rice and a prawn and Sichuan sauce style dish.
It was very much like Sichuan.
Didn’t over eat, and went home to do my lesson plans.
Invited to night out in Kunshan to round off Friday I guess.
Went to place called Fubar which was an English style pub at the top of a three storey waterfront cylindrical tower block.
Pretty posh. Nice beer.
Played Scrabble which was pretty unusual.
Moved on to place called the Whale bar in Kunshan which had a live band playing and was a lot more lively.
More bar-ish, no scrabble boards in sight.
Had a few drinks and a shao kao to top it off. Nice.
Last night went to the KTV, which I had been warned about. Had the full room laid on by one of our pupils, as much weak beer as you could possibly wave a stick at, or a microphone. They had a little booth, you could stand in or you could walk, or sit.
Was fun, much more fun than doing it in a pub full of people.