We are in Yangshuo, a beautiful Chinese city surrounded by rivers and strangly shapped, jagged Karst mountains. We don't know what "Karst" means, but it looks pretty spectacular. google it.
We spent yesterday practicing our chinese bartering skills, but the heavy rain today called for more indoor activities. So we went to cooking school!
We were picked up from our hostel and spent some time walking through the local food markets and our head chef (a small, young chinese lady) explained what all the chinese vegetables and roots were. The meat portion of the market was also quite interesting. The hanging dog was especially... visual? 'Appealing' and 'interesting' don't quite seem to be the right words. We also saw a man picking out a turtle. Our head chef explained that turtles are "very good for the man" (his verility that is). She told us not to point and make jokes. It seemed to be a socially delicate situation. We also saw a pair of testicles hanging from a wire. We don't know what kind of animal it was, but it had big balls.
Now to the cooking...
We, along with five others, were taken to the cooking school which was located on the Li River. We were each given our own gas stove, wok and other cooking necessaties. We cooked five dishes in total. Two tofu dishes, two veggie dishes and some egg dumplings. It was so good! We got a copy of the recipes so that perhaps we can recreate our masterpieces in Canada. Any takers?
Yangshuo
Jason trying out his bargaining skills!
Corinne trying out her cooking skills!
Our finished products! Looks tasty right?
2 comments:
Since you're both vegetarians, my dogs and I would feel safe having you cook for us. Jason, I just noticed that you're always wearing that kiwi hat, and that your hair is noticeably shorter than it was last time I saw you. Is this the result of the leatherman-tool-haircut Corinne gave you?
Mmm dumplings. I'm in. By the way nice farmer's tan Corinne.
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