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Chengdu, China: A not-so-cool hotpot meal…

Posted in China on Aug 20th, 2007

So Mark and Jen want to be “cool” and they decide to try a typical and popular Sichuan “hotpot” restaurant. The experience goes something like this:
–Point, point, point, nod, nod, yell across the restaurant, a hundred turning heads, and we get a table with a vat of oil.
–Mark goes into the kebab room and comes [...]

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Chengdu and Jiuzhaigou, China: Pandas to Panoramas

Posted in China on Aug 4th, 2007

Mon, July 30: Chengdu
We visited the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base this morning, just in time to watch the cubs wrestle and play chase for their food. We watched adult pandas munch on their bamboo breakfast. And then we visited the nursery, where we saw a five-day-old baby panda, hairless, eyes unopened, and no bigger [...]

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