We had a fairly lazy morning and then took the metro to the centre of Chengdu. We ate in a famous local place and had a mixed meal of all the local dishes including; ducks neck, chicken's foot, tripe, dumplings, spring rolls, other weird things..... and fungus! Delicious!
Following our meal we headed to a free (very unusual for China) museum. There was loads of Tibetan artifacts and an interesting area purposely missing all English signs which were present in the rest of the museum. Interesting, maybe they don't want us to know about somethings in China's past....
Next we headed to the dating corner in People's park where people put up messages (or their parents do on their behalf). The messages are a dating system, where you tell potential dates about yourself. Your height, date of birth, salary and job, family history including medical illnesses and health insurance, whether you own a home, whether your family are from a village or a city... Basically, everything about you except what you like to do and your personality.
Dating appears to be based on your potential to stay ahead of the competition and your posession of good genes.... not a good pair of jeans but genes!
Interesting fact: Some one told us that a walnut looks like a brain. Ok, you know that but some of the people in China believe because it looks like as brain, it must be good for your brain!
Another sleeper train tonight...
Photo is blurred to protect the innocent blind daters ;-)
Following our meal we headed to a free (very unusual for China) museum. There was loads of Tibetan artifacts and an interesting area purposely missing all English signs which were present in the rest of the museum. Interesting, maybe they don't want us to know about somethings in China's past....
Next we headed to the dating corner in People's park where people put up messages (or their parents do on their behalf). The messages are a dating system, where you tell potential dates about yourself. Your height, date of birth, salary and job, family history including medical illnesses and health insurance, whether you own a home, whether your family are from a village or a city... Basically, everything about you except what you like to do and your personality.
Dating appears to be based on your potential to stay ahead of the competition and your posession of good genes.... not a good pair of jeans but genes!
Interesting fact: Some one told us that a walnut looks like a brain. Ok, you know that but some of the people in China believe because it looks like as brain, it must be good for your brain!
Another sleeper train tonight...
Photo is blurred to protect the innocent blind daters ;-)
