January 16th, 2010 § 0
We found a Muslim restaurant in Chengdu, the same as the one we go to in Luzhou. They must be a chain restaurant.
The dishes at the Muslim restaurant in Chengdu, were even better than the ones in Luzhou! We didn’t think that was possible.
Beef Noodles with Vegetables and Chilli sauce. Sichuan is known for it’s hot food, and this dish was pretty hot.
January 14th, 2010 § 1
These are the sorts of things you miss when you live in Rural China for five months.
Luzhou doesn’t offer any good coffees or hot chocolates. There’s no Starbucks or equivalent, because the city is quite small. The best coffee we’ve had in Luzhou is from KFC. So when we go to a big city like Chengdu, we visit Starbucks.
January 14th, 2010 § 0
We stayed over in Chengdu on Saturday, for one night. The fruit shops in Chengdu are big and have a beautiful variety of fresh fruit available. We went for a walk on Saturday night and found this little shop.
Half a basket of fresh strawberries.
January 8th, 2010 § 0
Today we went to the bank to exchange some Chinese Yuan for Australian Dollars, but they didn’t have any. So we exchanged our Yuan for some American Dollars instead. Hello Mr Franklin, nice to meet you!
January 8th, 2010 § 0
This is our beautiful little kitten Charles. He is a big part of our life here in China!
We bought Charlie in September 2009, from a teahouse next to the river in downtown Luzhou. It was the best 40 Yuan we’ve spent so far, which is about $6.50 AUD. It’s uncommon to pay 40 Yuan for a kitten here. You can buy them everywhere for about 5 Yuan, or 0.80 AUD.
When we first saw him, he was a tiny little thing, with big eyes. He has one blue eye, one green eye, which made him extra special. He is the friendliest little cat and loves being around people. Usually you don’t ask the owner of a teahouse how much they want for their kitten, but when the kitten is this cute, you do things like that. At first they didn’t want to sell him. They’d bought him as a cat to hunt mice. Although in the end they agreed, and we took him home that afternoon.
He’s about six months old now. He is very inquisitive and investigates everything. Best of all, he loves muffins and cake! Ha.
