Greetings from woelfle who is at present behind the Great Firewal

[yakalskovich]

woelfle just pinged me to say that LJ isn't working there: - small wonder, we're so subversive! Not to say pornographic! Of course we're forbidden in China!

Anyway, she said it's great. Some things are a bit stressful, like etiquettes and hierarchic thinking, but the food is great.

People like them, and they like their music as well. At least the elite likes the tango; the 'masses' were rather reserved. Masses = a few hundred people, she said. Nut at the Chinese pop music da capos the tango band had practised, they freaked with enthusiasm.

At every meal, they get to eat at least five new things so she's losing count of what she got; but the only thing she couldn't eat were some special local crabs in which the ratio of available meat to dead animal looking at you while you crack open its shell was entirely unsatisfactory to the lady woelfle.

The local rice brandy was great, though -- they got properly pished with their Chinese hosts last night, which very much furthered international relations. And the god stuff didn't even cause her a hangover.

Well, hopefully she'll have a great time for the rest of her trip, and if she pings me again, I'll post it again, kay?

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[nazgulwears.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds great! Where exactly is she?
Did she get to try dog meat? I wanted to but didn't get the chance.
But I weasled out of eating frogs and chicken feet.

[yakalskovich]

I have no idea - on any of the counts. But I'll ask her the next time she pings me, okay?

[yakalskovich]

P.S.: She pinged me again today and said that the most adventurous stuff she'd eaten was some undefinable gunk ('undefinierbarer Glubsch'). It was in a soup. She was trying to fish out the vegetables, but the waitress made her eat the choicest delicacies contained in it.

She didn't have dog meat, snake, chicken feet or frog. She had mushroom, shrimp, more gunk, and innards at a Chinese breakfast house; but luckily, there was tofu as well, and wontons with meat filling.