Today we said goodbye to our group of China adventurers. Some of them returned to Beijing for a direct flight home. Part of the group continued their journey on to Tibet.
Yinong and I travelled to Shanghai to visit her relatives. We flew from Lijiang to Kunming and then onto Shanghai via Farmer Wong’s field… Yes we had a stop in some little town where the water buffalo came right up to the edge of the airport. Normally we try to avoid this sort of thing when we travel, but taking this flight was the only way to make certain our group members safely got to their planes before we left.
That night was dinner in Shanghai’s Pudong district. Pudong is a recently developed and fast growing district in the city. The restaurant, the sort of place patronized by locals, served very good Shanghai food. The dishes on the menu reflected Shanghai’s status as a trading port. One of them was an Asian-Portuguese fusion dish which could be simply described as Chinese chicken in a bread bowl. It’s what you get when you mix Chinese, Portuguese and Indian cuisine together. It was quite unusual and good.
