The
kettle in our room was broken so we left without porridge or tea and
had to buy over packaged out of date egg cakes and cold milk-tea for
breakfast. We followed a river downstream with the plants becoming more
and more tropical. We are starting to see banana trees and Aloe Vera
plants by the road. Interestingly people here carry their baskets by a
single strap around the forehead instead of shoulder straps. We stopped
in Jingdong a big town along the river. A restaurant owner pointed us
towards a posh looking hotel (which actually had very cheap rooms) on
the promise we came back to her place for dinner-which we did.
She
owned a busy hotpot restaurant and was so pleased we returned that she
brought her whole family to meet us (father, husband, children). I even
had my photo taken with the baby who was less than pleased at being
passed to a foreigner.
The
menu involved ticking what you wanted on a form and then you got a big
dish of broth, filled a bowl with the spices you wanted and cooked it
yourself on a gas hob in the middle of the table. We couldn't read the
form so the lady took us into the kitchen and we just pointed at things
we liked the look of. It tasted amazing! Chris was less pleased because I
put too many spices in it and he was incensed by the principle of going
to a restaurant and having to cook his own food.
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