Thursday 10th July 2008

• Cookery course
• Went to the market, which had dogs (blowtorched, some alive in tiny cages, and half of a dog's head on a table), pig tongues and snouts, chicken feet etc. Lots of veg. Our chef lady bought supplies and explained the various foods.
• Back to restaurant
  

Cooked:
* Gun Pou Chicken (Peanuts)
* Pork dumplings (I wasn't too great at their presentation)
* Veg and Noodles

• We got cool chef hats and aprons, and a HUGE knife.
• Liz and Charlotte cooked a veg selection, including awesome deep friend eggplant.
• Was surprisingly nice and I ate far too mcuh.
• Short break, coffee + cafe. Hot.
• Calligraphy lesson
• Learnt numbers 1-10. Progression of characters Wood>Tree>Forest.
• Wrote my name, which translated to Basic, Success, Kind.
  
• Everyone else's was way better

Liz: White Beautiful Lady Nice
Martin: Success, Clever
Lydia: Wealth, Wisdom
Charlotte: Summer, Water, Knowledge

• Took a private bus to station and then the overnight train to somewhere near the 3 gorges and the Yangzi river. Nice again. Good sleep.