Ahhhh ... Ca Phe.

Back in Guangzhou. Pork Chops and Homemade Dumplings

Three Kinds of Shrimp, Clams, Plus "Some Other Kind of Ray".

Worst beer ever.

Today, Lantau Island ... Tomorrow Chueng Chau Island

I spent today on Lantau Island, just across from Hong Kong Island. Apparently there are still native populations of the original occupants, and also feral cattle and buffalo. I shot film and ate wonton from a street vendor. I saw bananas growing and what appears to be a whole island full of local jungle.  The local fishing village of Tai O is pretty interesting.   I sent 6 rolls of 120 to the film guru in Tuscon at the Post Office in Tai O.

Tomorrow, the New Territories. Chueng Chau Island.  A fairly informative post -- here -- if the monkey could actually remember where she went.  

London pride

Dim Sum at Jumbo Kingdom.

Tiger Beer

In Hong Kong

Breakfast of Champions

Today we travel to Hong Kong.

Harbin 冰爽

Tuborg Green

Hot Pot 季季红

Hot in every way.

Harbin Binchun

Baizu Silver

Where's All the Good Food Pictures?

Well, since I've been on this tour, there aren't any. In fact, last nights dinner, included pork stomach, pork colon and beef tendons, all things I'd rather not eat. I've managed to find the only cooked on the spot food in the hotel buffet breakfast. Thanks for the noodles.

Snow Beer

Bai jiu

Yanjing Fresh Beer

Yunnan Lancangjaing Pijiu

Poster from Cultural Revolution

Wind, Flower, Snow and Moon

Dali Beer.

Chandelier in the Regents Hotel, Baizu Old City, Dali, Cina

Lijiang from the 14th Floor

Lijiang > Dali

Dali V6

I am in Shangra-la ...

…I think.  There's apparently some disagreement on the subject.  https://maps.google.com.hk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=shangri-la&aq=&sll=27.070285,100.251789&sspn=0.085446,0.154324&vpsrc=6&brcurrent=3,0x0:0x0,0&ie=UTF8&hq=shangri-la&hnear=&ll=26.975933,100.202179&spn=0.342071,0.617294&t=m&z=11 shows it on the same side of the mountain from Lijiang.  Which is where I am.  I am going to go with it.  I am in Shangri-la. Latte-da. 

I'm in Shangri-la ...

…I think.  There’s apparently some disagreement on the subject.  https://maps.google.com.hk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=shangri-la&aq=&sll=27.070285,100.251789&sspn=0.085446,0.154324&vpsrc=6&brcurrent=3,0x0:0x0,0&ie=UTF8&hq=shangri-la&hnear=&ll=26.975933,100.202179&spn=0.342071,0.617294&t=m&z=11 shows it on the same side of the mountain from Lijiang.  Which is where I am.  I am going to go with it.  I am in Shangri-la. Latte-da.

Yunnan Tamarind

Harbin Beer

Kunming > Dali > Lijiang by 7 Hour Bus Ride

Hot Pot

Dali V8

Dali V8

Arrive in Kunming

Fly to Kunming

Windows 7 Sucks ... I Am Sure Windows Nine will Make the Rest of My Hardware Obsolete

Windows you blow.  I am never going to buy another product of yours, ever.  I grabbed a sweet new laptop to take to China and assumed (stupidly, I could add) that my current memory card reader would work.  It doesn’t.  Why not? Total mystery.  Then, I transferred a truckload of data to a new memory stick  bought in China … can Windoze 3.1 recognize it … probably.  Windows 7, no. 

So from now on.  I will only buy Macs.  You totally screwed my plan.

Pizza!

Pearl River Lager Beer

Day 1 -- Birthday Party

Breakfast in Renhe, Guangdong, China.

Southern China Day1.

It's currently the fifth of March 2014 and I am in a suburb of Guangzhou, China,and it's late in the day.  Today actually stated at 5 AM on the west coast of California, Monday March 3, when I woke up.  I went to work finalize some things and got on a plane at 11:10 that night, there was a one hour delay taking off from SFO, which caused a lot of sweat 16 time zones away, when we had to run through the Honng Kong terminal to make our connecting flight to Guangzhou. 

Right now it is 5 AM Wednesday, on the West coast, so I have been awake for 48 hours. 

Included in today was an awesome lunch of mostly noodles and some pork, winter melon, along other awesome flavors, a trip to a farm which raised a variety of pets, including mice, guinea pigs and goldfish.  There were Chinese cymbidiums and an award winning flock of homing pigeons.  After that there was a birthday party for my girlfriend's 92 year old mother, which was a lot of fun. 

For now, I am off to bed.  Apparently, I am not going to be able to upload pictures taken in China on my Iphone to blogger.