Friday 25 May 2007

Changsha, food and street life

Hunan is know for it's spicy food, but we found lots of fabulous fruit too.


We joined the locals (and their dogs) chatting and drinking tea in a little park. Street sellers wandered between the tables offering savoury snacks, a semi-set tofu drink, as well as seated massages.




While exploring the little lanes around our hotel, we heard a loud bang.
No, not fireworks, though we saw lots being sold,
but a man 'popping' corn and rice in a medieval, and ingenuous, looking contraption.


Early in the morning the public spaces fill with Tai Chi and Gongfu proponents.
But we also saw people dancing and writing calligraphy, in water, on the ground.

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