Yesterday was quite a lazy day too. It was raining so our walking options were limited.
We found a coffee shop for a late breakfast then took a taxi and wandered around the central area with some pagodas and a mosque. Spent a chunk of the late afternoon drinking tea and reading my novel. I tried Yunnan brown tea, which sounds altogether more illicit. Tasted more like English breakfast than other fermented teas I’ve had in China.
Dinner was taken at a busy street-side restaurant. We had a dry chicken dish served in piles of roasted chili, cumin and other highly aromatic, but unknown (to me at least), spices that were somewhat reminiscent to those in Xi’an. This dish is also served at the Robin Hood (the restaurant at the staff hotel at UNNC). Its one of my prefered dishes there but now will seem somewhat bland. Also had a spicy tofu dish and some delicious spinach.
While I enjoyed the food a lot, I suspect it was rather more spicy than I have become accustom, and I felt briefly a little faint and spacey afterward.
In all a relaxed way to spend Sunday, and it (along with early nights) has proved, despite the chilli episode, helpful in restoring my energy and health.
This is being penned, so to speak, in the hotel car on the was the the Stone Forest. Fingers crossed no language problems and some interesting photographs to post in due course, there had better be, I’m lugging my tripod along for the journey.
Brown tea and Chilli Dishes
Yesterday was quite a lazy day too. It was raining so our walking options were limited.
We found a coffee shop for a late breakfast then took a taxi and wandered around the central area with some pagodas and a mosque. Spent a chunk of the late afternoon drinking tea and reading my novel. I tried Yunnan brown tea, which sounds altogether more illicit. Tasted more like English breakfast than other fermented teas I’ve had in China.
Dinner was taken at a busy street-side restaurant. We had a dry chicken dish served in piles of roasted chili, cumin and other highly aromatic, but unknown (to me at least), spices that were somewhat reminiscent to those in Xi’an. This dish is also served at the Robin Hood (the restaurant at the staff hotel at UNNC). Its one of my prefered dishes there but now will seem somewhat bland. Also had a spicy tofu dish and some delicious spinach.
While I enjoyed the food a lot, I suspect it was rather more spicy than I have become accustom, and I felt briefly a little faint and spacey afterward.
In all a relaxed way to spend Sunday, and it (along with early nights) has proved, despite the chilli episode, helpful in restoring my energy and health.
This is being penned, so to speak, in the hotel car on the was the the Stone Forest. Fingers crossed no language problems and some interesting photographs to post in due course, there had better be, I’m lugging my tripod along for the journey.