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Strange fruit China – pt2

Strange fruit China – pt2

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.

Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit

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.**

Dragon Boat festival

Dragon Boat festival

So, this weekend is Dragon Boat Festival.

Celebration

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.

Strange fruit China

Strange fruit China

Chinese Fruit
Mystery Fruit

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…

China fruit
Mystery fruit
Sunday Meal

Sunday Meal

Dora, Jerremy, Robine

With some members of Linestart.

Had been out doing interviews at potential new school contract with the other members of Linestart pictured here.

No bad fish

Jerry, Mary, Joyce, Edshel

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.

Spinning table

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.

Kunshan night out

Kunshan night out

Invited to night out in Kunshan to round off Friday I guess.

tinglinpark_kunshanWent 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.

Scrabble

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.

Kunshan KTV

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.