This weekend I am on vacation. It’s a long weekend for the school – it’s Tomb Sweeping Day, the equivalent of Memorial Day back in the States. I am currently in Dujiangyan, a “small” town about an hour from Chengdu. I made this decision based almost entirely on a posting on the Chengdu Living forums. […]
The Sichuan specialty cooking style is called “hot pot.” Have you ever had fondue? Maybe visited the Melting Pot at some point? Hot pot is essentially fondue, except instead of cheese or chocolate, you’re given a broth mixed with chili oil, chiles, and other spices. Chili oil seems to go into most dishes here unless […]
This Sunday I visited the Tibetan district of Chengdu. Because Chengdu is the last big city before/after Lhasa, it has a large Tibetan community. And through this community I got to try something I’ve been curious about since I read it in my guide book – yak butter tea. Really, it tastes like salty tea […]
Because I do theater, I accept that people will watch me. That’s actually the goal – to get an audience. But I also am used to my day to day activities going unnoticed. It’s not the case here. Here, everything I do in public is observed obviously. People stare at me when I walk down […]
This is why you have to explore. Wenjiang looks like an industrial and commercial suburb of Chengdu, but it too has treasures on the side streets.
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