Golden Week (2)
After Huangshan, we went to see the other part of Anhui province that is a World Heritage Site, Hongcun and Xidi. Both towns are small traditional towns of rural China, with houses from late Ming and early Qing dynasties (that, 17th century, to make it short).
Hongcun is a town full of canals, but it is not the Venice of China. Not even the Venice of Anhui. Surprising.
As said, these two towns are famous for their 17th century houses:
The best of all Hongcun was arguably the place where we ate. Not only it was in a small hill, which let us see the town (and that added some more pain to our knees), but it was awesome by itself:
That night, after dinnar, to relax a little bit, we went for a massage (something pretty common in China, especially foot massage). However, just before we decided to go to a KTV (karaoke). I had heard that some KTVs were more girls bars (whorehouses). This one, once inside did not try to soften the message. It was a dodgy place with semi-nude women (and men) pictures on the wall. There was even a pink plastic spaniking hand!!
Now that we mention whorehouses, the hotel bathroom was pretty revealing as well:
Last day, we went to Xidi, a town similar to Hongcun, but without that many canals. Everybody seemed to like it more than Hongcun, but I had the feeling that every single house had someone trying to sell you something. Slightly overwhelming.
Here I had a "déjà vu" moment. We ate in the street, a sort of cakes stuffed with nooddles (yes, stuffd with nooddles), vegetables and spices. The lady and the kitchen reminded me powerfully of the tlayudas in Oaxaca. Mmm. Look:
Xidi, China, September 2008
Oaxaca, México, August 2004
To me, the conclussion is obvious. Tacos are Chinese food.
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5 Octubre 2009 | 04:22 AM