"Love you without reason" "Red memory in Polard"
(Enjoy this moment)
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Chinese Chess
Every day on this corner they play Chinese Chess. And every day the guy who runs the nut stand is watching. It must be a pretty good level of competition, they get a good crowd. If you want to buy some nuts or seeds you are going to have to get the guy's attention !
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Stickers on everything
In China people leave the wrapping on everything, until it's way too late and it is disintegrating. I guess it is so things look "brand new" In restaurants, the little transparent plastic stickers on drinking glasses are carefully preserved. My office chair still has the plastic wrap on the legs which is now in tatters. It's like that kid from school, when you went to his house on the weekend they had all the furniture wrapped in plastic and if you wanted to watch the TV you had to sit on this sweaty plastic cover on the couch. squeek squeek.
In China it's like that with the cars. All the cars. Everywhere !
The stickers stay on until they rot off. These are all pretty new.
Everything, including the delivery stickers from the factory. Lookit my new car !
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Dinner and a club
On the 16th of May my friend had his wife in town for the weekend, another guy bought his wife along so we went to my favourite restaurant for dinner (barbecue) then to the local club.
David, his wife, and YY's wife Dora (the explorer)
again with the crazy t-shirts
everything you can think of, barbecued on a skewer. Love it.
Got to the club around 8, plenty of tables to choose from. We grabbed a good one on the side (floor level balcony) near the stage.
Massive screens and laser show to keep the audience entertained between acts. At times the windows 3.x "starfield" screen saver would pop up which is instantly recognisable to an old IT guy like me.
Just a real old fashioned night club, they have two or three sets of performers with their own lead singers and dancers that rotate through the night, probably 2 or more costume changes per hour per team, with guest solo acts in between, jugglers, comedians, acrobats, you name it.
Each act is introduced by an EmCee that keeps the crowd entertained between acts. (The original Master of Ceremonies, not MC as in rapper). The whole act changes each month. Must be about time to go back !
Turns out you aren't supposed to take photos. When I tried to get a few close ups of the sword swallowing guy who was eating lit cigarettes they told me to give it up.
And the whole thing goes on until dawn, with food of all types, drinks, give-aways, auctions, and countless stretchy balloons in the shape of animals, antlers, love hearts, to wear on your head and eventually pop with cigarettes until the next round of balloons comes out (Like everywhere else, the club is a smoking environment). We left around 12:30.
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Lamb on a spit
On the 11th of May we all celebrated a milestone on the project by going to a new hotel/resort outside of town for lamb on a spit. This is a traditional spring.summer thing in these parts, last time we did it outdoors in a little farming village but this time the quality of the lamb was just as good.
I took this one because I have a strange fetish for Hi Panda t-shirts
The banquet room filling up ...
Then all piling back out into the coridoor when they wheel up the lamb
When seagulls attack !! It's like that with anything on a spit ....
Gone.
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Takin it to the streets
Going for an evening walk in town, up to the Little Sheep restaurant for a hot pot dinner. (10th May)
Everyone is out and about
The street vendors large and small ;;;
The local Little Sheep franchise ...
I don't normally take pictures of food but
a traditional Chinese hot pot meal is not something you see back home
and as it turned out this restaurant closed down shortly after, this may have been one of the last meals we had there ......
I love the VW taxi with the BMW sticker. You see all type of Ling Longs and other locally made cars with the Fully Hektik Drift Set of stickers - HKS, Nismo, TRD, Brembo, etc all on the one car so this one is pretty tame by comparison.
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