Christmas (0)

Posted 26 December, 2008 in Travel

 We fancied spending Christmas somewhere a bit chilled out so we got a sleeper train from Kumming (we’d moved to Kumming from Lijiang since my last post) to Yangshou on the 21^st December. The first thing I noticed when arriving in Yangshou was that it’s pretty chuffing cold but that’s ok as it was Christmas and Christmas is supposed to be cold.

Christmas Eve

We spent most of our Christmas Eve participating in a cookery course, this course was proper good. To start with they took us to a food market to show us where to get the ingredients we needed:

Haha, no we didn’t actually need dog for the recipes we were learning but you could buy it there if you wanted.

After the market we went to the cookery school kitchen where we were given a massive knife each :

 

 

We learnt how to cook the following recipes;

Aubergine with chilli paste

Chicken with cashew nuts

Beer fish

Stuffed vegetables

Garlic cabbage

Here’s Debbie with her finished dishes:

 

 

Which out of the below 2 dishes looks best? Left or Right?

Yeah I agree, the left one (that was mine!). When I get chance I’ll put some of the recipes online so you can have a try yourself.

After we’d cooked all the food we got to eat it all, it took about 2 hours to cook everything and about 5 minutes to eat it all, it was delicious.

From the cookery course we went back to our hostel were there was supposed to be a Christmas Eve party. It wasn’t exactly a party but a group of people sitting around making dumplings. Don’t get me wrong it was quite fun but not exactly how we wanted to spend Christmas Eve so we scoffed a load of dumplings then snuck off into town.

Have you ever played Beer Pong? It’s a well good game, I hadn’t played it before but we went to a bar called “Monkey Jane’s” and challenged the current champions to a game which we won!! ….. They won their title back a bit later on L.

 

Christmas Day

Not so much to say about Christmas day, what do you do on Christmas? Eat, drink be merry…. we also played table football!

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

 

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