1. You get a pot of water to wash your dishes, which have already been set at the table, in restaurants in Nanchang. You just swirl the water around. Is this effective? Is this necessary?
2. At the Buddhist temple you could have your fortune read by a turtle. Or something. A person puts a coin on the turtle's back, then takes your hand and rubs it around the turtle's back and then makes you shake the turtle's hand. Maybe it is different if you know what they are saying.
3. You must pay 25 yuan if your daughter breaks a glass in a restaurant. 12 yuan if you steal the "No Smoking" sign from the hotel. 5000 yuan if you break the tv. We only had to pay one of these.
4. You can hear Uptown Funk playing in the Walmart mall in Guilin. You can also buy sweet potato flavored instant Quaker Oats. And prophylactics next to the gum at the grocery checkout counter.
5. Wearing your t-shirt rolled up halfway seems to be an acceptable fashion statement for men. Maybe just to deal with the heat. If it won't stay up on it's own, just use paper clips to hold it up.
6. If your baby is old enough to stand, they can ride shotgun on your scooter. If not, just bungee a little seat to your bike.
7. Never promise a Chinese lady you'll buy water from them after you come down from the mountain. They'll never let you forget.
8. It is OK to hang your clean undies out to dry anywhere. Over the public walk, outside your family restaurant, or in the middle of an open building under active construction.
9. If you are American, you must want a fried egg, strip of bacon, one sausage, 2 rolls and excessive amounts of watermelon for breakfast. (We sat down at our table one morning after filling our plates at the hotel chinese breakfast buffet. The wait staff continued to bring all of the above and sat it down in front of us.)
10. Lots of people wear shirts with American words that are "not relavent" (Andrew's assessment). Like the English teacher at the elementary school we visited whose shirt said "SICK".
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These are hilarious!! Sooooo reminiscent; these are the things that just are not captured in the books.
Will you go back to Yangshuo at all? Was there a restaurant called Mickey Mao's? Will you do any water travel or day trips?
I think I will read these posts over and over. You make me feel like I am there!
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