Happy New Year!
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
GP and I took the fast train to Nanjing on Wednesday - only 1.5 hours at a top speed of about 130mph - to visit her family. We had family dinner that night, plates of cold meat (duck, chicken, beef, chicken, fish, etc), mostly salted in traditional style. Then we played mahjongg for about 4 hours and I won 7 kwai! That's about $1US, so it almost paid for the trip ;)
We stayed at the Jinling resort about 5 minutes from her brother's house. Nice place, though it probably looks better in the spring and summertime. It was clean and comfy and cheap - the most important 3c's. It was also warm (cozy?) which was nice as her brother's house doesn't actually have heat. We could see our breath as we played mahjongg.
Thursday we ate breakfast and got ready for the big lunch. We treated her extended family (about 30 people) to a nice lunch, even I liked most of the food. I could have done without the rice wine, though, and luckily only had a little. It is about 90 proof and tastes like lacquer. Hours later you can still taste it :p
Thursday night was left overs in hotpot dinner and more mahjongg. Then I got a splitting headache and we headed to the hotel early. A Nyquil and a bath later, I was asleep for about 12 hours. Friday on the fast train again back to Suzhou. A nice little trip and I was glad to meet more of her family and revisit the ones I already knew. Her 3 year old nephew is a typical little boy and I assured her they make them the same in the US. Even his recent injury was typical little boy: he was eating watermelon seeds while sitting on the toilet, dropped one, reached for it and swung right around to fall on his head.
Saturday morning I go to Shanghai to pick up Mike and we'll show him all the best places to buy me drinks ;^)
GP and I took the fast train to Nanjing on Wednesday - only 1.5 hours at a top speed of about 130mph - to visit her family. We had family dinner that night, plates of cold meat (duck, chicken, beef, chicken, fish, etc), mostly salted in traditional style. Then we played mahjongg for about 4 hours and I won 7 kwai! That's about $1US, so it almost paid for the trip ;)
We stayed at the Jinling resort about 5 minutes from her brother's house. Nice place, though it probably looks better in the spring and summertime. It was clean and comfy and cheap - the most important 3c's. It was also warm (cozy?) which was nice as her brother's house doesn't actually have heat. We could see our breath as we played mahjongg.
Thursday we ate breakfast and got ready for the big lunch. We treated her extended family (about 30 people) to a nice lunch, even I liked most of the food. I could have done without the rice wine, though, and luckily only had a little. It is about 90 proof and tastes like lacquer. Hours later you can still taste it :p
Thursday night was left overs in hotpot dinner and more mahjongg. Then I got a splitting headache and we headed to the hotel early. A Nyquil and a bath later, I was asleep for about 12 hours. Friday on the fast train again back to Suzhou. A nice little trip and I was glad to meet more of her family and revisit the ones I already knew. Her 3 year old nephew is a typical little boy and I assured her they make them the same in the US. Even his recent injury was typical little boy: he was eating watermelon seeds while sitting on the toilet, dropped one, reached for it and swung right around to fall on his head.
Saturday morning I go to Shanghai to pick up Mike and we'll show him all the best places to buy me drinks ;^)
posted by Matt aka Maxiu at
5:43 PM
1 Comments:
GOOD LORD! That last part needs a disclaimer so that people aren't drinking anything while they read it. Darn coke out the nose!!!!
KBF
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