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dinner

28Nov09

One of but 20 such plates of ill translated delectables…


carnage

28Nov09

For lunch: jellyfish, something we thought might be turtle, shrimp with all their parts, tasty root veggies of unknown sorts with fried fat, crab guts, and, oh, French, albeit ‘cabernet merlot’ red wine.


on to Lishui

27Nov09

Spent the day today getting from Wenzhou to Lishui. We’re now officially in the folds of the photo festival. Looking forward to finally seeing what it’s all about. I have a feeling the adventure has only just begun.
 I’m not sure if I shared this yet or not – if so then it’s here again  for new readers at [...]


…but only a half.


Bacon. Yum. But, no, I have no idea what the curly/turd/cocoon thing is.
Yum.


We didn’t tell the hotel it was for Thanksgiving. Explaining to a country that lives with thousands of years of its history everyday that it was a big deal meal about some Spanish guy ‘discovering’ America a couple of hundred years ago felt silly. We simply asked if they could recommend a very typically Wenzhouian [...]


Taj made it in safe and on schedule last night and we spent the day again wandering the streets and back alleys of Wenzhou. For a city so full of people and money there’s actually a strange lack of established places to eat.
For lunch today we just wanted some basic, authentic Chinese food and, even [...]


Don’t let the fork mislead you. The only thing I actually knew what was were the melon chunks…

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A Note on the Photos:
I’ve made already a thousand or so photos – there’s so much here I find fascinating. However, since I’m traveling without a computer they all remain trapped in my cameras. Still, and maybe it’s because I think so visually, but it seemed impossible to offer up these posts without any photos… So, reluctantly, I’ve made [...]


Wenzhou is different than I expected. I knew going in it was a small city – of several million people – and one of many centers of China’s low-tech industrial machine. Google National Geographic’s story from summer 2007 on China’s boomtowns so I don’t have to type it all here on the phone. But do [...]