A Very Social Day

Hot Pot...Round II

Wow...What a busy 24 hours...

I met up with Jeff, Bill and the gang at Bills place last night.



Bills wife is back from Texas so he took us all out for a wonderful dinner at my favorite place to eat...The Hot Pot.

All the usual great stuff Beef, Lamb, Shrimp, Mushrooms and a new addition...Get this...SPAM!! That's the spam on the right...Like you couldn't tell.
So now I have a new one for my list..."I ate boiled Spam".
I'm not going to say it was bad but I will say that I prefer it fried....Just like mom makes it.






They had a different way of cooking the shrimp....Grab one with your chopsticks and hold him in the boiling water until he stops screaming...Just kidding...You can't actually hear them screaming...But I bet they are.




Or you can take a whole bunch and use your little ladle and have a group killing...LOL.

Some even jump right in by themselves...The lonely ones.
Bills wife Uwen (not sure if that's spelled right?)



Angela and Julin(pronounced Juleen)
and our waitress bringing in the goods.

The next day Jeff wanted to go to a music store and price some guitars.
He showed up at my place with Bills mom and wife and we headed out shopping.

At the music store I saw this little girl... Couldn't be older than five years old and played this instrument like she had been playing for 20 years...AMAZING!!
She was so elegant.




Julin was pretty darn good too.
I forgot to write down the name of this...Whatever it is but I will find out and report back later.
























Jeff is quite the music buff and plays several instruments.



Man he looks cool with that thing!



Jeff and I decided to eat at KFC...He didn't feel like pigs head for lunch.
On the way we stopped in at this little bakery...
The Baker saw us and just had to take a picture...So, one good picture deserves another!




After KFC we wandered over to a book store across the street...I wanted to see if I could find any kind of DVD that would work with my lap-top.

I poked around for a while but couldn't make head nor tails of what was what....All Chinese.

But I ran into the nicest young lady that spoke some English and she was kind enough to translate for me.

Julin and Bills wife were shopping for clothes at another shop so we were on our own.

Anyway her name is Shi Dawei, I still have trouble saying it as I spell it.

She helped me find the right section of DVD's and I bought one just for a test run.

This on was twice as expensive as my last DVD's...Two bucks.

But at least this one worked....English with Chinese sub-titles...Good enough!



Later we went to Julin mothers coffee/tea house and enjoyed a cup of coffee.

I was watching her mom behind the counter and she looked like she was getting ready to do some kind of science experiment.

Then I realized she was brewing...Coffee.


I would get you one of these for you Dave but I think you need a degree in science to use it.















This is Julins boyfriend, Woo Bing.
Now that's a Chinese name I can pronounce AND remember.



He's a great guy...Very interesting and very inquisitive!


Bing...As we call him...Invited me to come to his home and have have dinner with his parents...Could I say no?....NO.




Bings mom make...DRUMROLL...Eel.

Just like the ones in the market pictures...I could hardly wait.





She also made pork and shrimp and veggies.




Bings dad was drinking Red Berry wine...Just like the berries I got from my berry outing.
It was strong but sweet and delicious.











We also had tomatoes and Chinese peaches with sugar on them...Never had tomatoes with sugar...It was good...Tomatoes are a fruit you know.






Well this concludes another crazy day in Changxing China.

Be sure to tune in again to see what's on Jim's
plate.