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When it's raining in Shanghai ... Xi'an 西安

Since Saturday evening, still raining. Temperatures are unlikely to exceed 10 degrees, the wind is blowing, the air spring feel. On Sunday we slept almost until lunchtime - the sound of rain striking the windows were very tripped anaesthetizing. The estate already bloom in red camellias, shrubs inches in buds.

several days when the air conditioner heard some crunching. Driven by bad intuitions may go along with it does not share with Large M, but today I started to munch unfortunately, like a big M came back from work in the house was quite quiet and Large M heard these sounds. Immediately jumped on the chair, stood on it, she said, she is derived from the flat. Just because it was going to shop, asked them to on the occasion She bought the mouse trap (here are the ones with glue, mouse or rat enters the present and completely glued.) Then I asked Mala M, or wants to have a pet. I responded to view full gratitude. The last rat breathed his last, unfortunately, but I promised that as now I do catch on, this bath with it, buy a frame and we will breed. Large M listen with the acquisition and said that in that case, it certainly brought out in August. I quit, perhaps, a window because a frame with a rat will be a constant for the corridor leading to the front door. So we shared a bear skin, and here again started to munch. I wanted to open the window and watch from outside the creature, but the windows closed the tape, because they are leaking (of living in China are not practical at all, thermally insulated, and oknac are slit, through which the wind blows.) Tape came off, and then waited in silence (M Large whole time stood on a chair.) In the end it started again, munch, quietly opened the window and shined a flashlight. And suddenly the hole through which the flat tube is placed from the unit flew some birds. Stone fell from my heart, because August uspokila Large M - most recently the rat was in the kitchen and I had to driving by on the outside, or something to prepare himself, and for that I have two left hands.

Mala M learns in school just two rows in the memory of yesterday zakuwala Meng Haorana 孟浩然 line - just about spring. The poem is titled "Spring Dawn" 春晓 (some sources say that the title poem is "Spring Dream" 春 眠):

春眠不觉晓
处处 闻 啼鸟
夜来 风雨声
花落 知多少?

as Spring normally slept in. As long mornings
me from sleep will not get singing birds has come
night wind and the rain drummed on the windows,
How many lands have to lose the flowers ...

Above my rather free translation, but the corresponding and the weather (just started to roar, the first spring storm this year ...), and this ptaszysku, which tries each uwic nest in our air conditioner, and of course this spring drowsiness.

the drowsiness that is probably all of us here are suffering, even the Chinese have a saying that illustrate well - "Man is a sleepy spring, summer, without power, cuts a nap in the autumn, winter and three months in general does not raise" ... 春困 夏 乏秋 打盹 睡不醒 的 冬 三月.

On Saturday I started the second part of the course Guqina. Teacher is - as in the first part - Mr. Cai 蔡. This young man, graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Music, but in the classroom 二胡 Erhu (string instrument with two strings and a small soundbox, a lyrical sound.) As he told us, hates Erhu, but fell to his liking Guqin, who studied under the direction of the Gong Yi 龚 一. Cai doing any business, apparently with great success, often it drivin 'in Europe, mainly Spain and France, he bought an apartment in downtown Shanghai in the period when prices were already crazy, drivin' imported car. It teaches only because of his teacher and master of the Yi Gong, who runs the type of club Guqina 琴 馆, and such organizing courses to earn an instrument. Cai is a talented, said to just burn CDs. Interestingly, I recorded in a special environment. So far, these recordings were made most often in churches, or studio. Cai decided to make recordings in natural surroundings mountains. I wonder how will that effect, I never heard that someone got the idea for such an idea.
first lesson was also my chance to take my instrument to fix it in the end. After leaving the lesson I was quite surprised when it turned out that good go Gong Yi. Could not fix it on the spot, Gong Yi suggested that they would come the next day, because only then it will be ready. I asked that after repairing pograł on it a little. There such a rule, with the Guqinie should play all the time, playing on it "fed" him and improves the sound. The better a virtuoso on the game, the better for the instrument. Often students buyer expensive instruments and take it to their teachers for half a year and the longer that those "facelift" of their sound.

Anyway Guqin is already in the house and the girls sound rash or irritation of the ears ...

After class on Saturday, I returned home and after dinner I went to a local music club Yuyintang 育 音 堂, which is located in a small building in the Tianshan Park 天山 公园. This is one of the fastest continuous working club, featuring mainly Chinese rock music, though sometimes on the stage, there are also foreign bands. On Saturday was the performance of the band AZ - Yong Su duo 苏 勇 (those were the bassist Cold Fairyland 冷酷 仙境, who in 2008 left the band and creates his music) and Wu Zhuoling 吴卓玲, the former frontwoman and guitarist of the band, "an atmosphere Excursion" 星期三旅行. Wu is an interesting figure, said to be three years went to Tibet to look for the legendary land of "Shangri-la" - a paradise on earth, a place where there is no policy, no wars, no disease ...

Shangri-la is a place described by James Hilton in his book "Lost Horizon" (Lost Horizon) in 1933. It was supposed be somewhere in the deep valley in the western part of the Kunlun mountains near Tibet 昆仑 山. It is thought that Hilton based his descriptions of the books of Joseph Rock, a famous scholar of Tibet and the eastern foothills of the people of Naxi culture expert 纳西 inhabiting these areas. A few years ago for tourism development in the region was given arbitrarily decided that the Shangri-la Zhongdian is a region in northern 中甸 Yunanie, but this is just one of many possible places where he could be this mystical land.

do not know if Wu had fallen Zhuoling Shangri-le, it was probably a gimmick company executives to add it as a mystery, but it is already in Tibet, Wu Zhuoling has written many songs, There has translated a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, there also she found peace and inspiration. The current disc is special, the concert was also a nice, well was found in the small room of Yuyintangu, sit in the first row at the scene, listen to Wu and Su ...

And through the window just then started to lac ...

PS.Przed time TV reported that the current February has 5 times more rainfall than the typical.

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night - The Two Towers and kitchen

Xi'an as any Chinese city, has much to offer even after dark, if only because of the beautiful illuminations. Especially around the city center bell and drum tower is beautifully illuminated, and although not on such a scale as. such as Shanghai, by the fact that the architecture in Xi'an is either old, or modeled on the (center of the city - also modern buildings - echo the style of Chinese architecture from the time of greatest splendor of the country and city, ie the Tang Dynasty in AD 唐朝 7-10) atmosphere of the place is special. By the way

interesting is a country in which the notorious lack of electricity, where electricity is a distant province of only a few hours a day, and at the same time is wasted huge amounts of it so that cities that look nicer and more attractive in the evening. But what is not done in the name of tourism - and no doubt many of Xi'an on tourism gains.

The entire effect is particularly evident in my favorite neighborhood Muslim 回 坊, where at dusk every booth, every shop, every soup-kitchen are lit, A further additional effects of fire in the furnaces, glowing embers in the grill, Fire Plume Ridge from the soup kitchen.

Below are some pictures in a little bigger than usual format (opening up when you click):

city center - is composed of elements of the architecture of the Tang Dynasty (AD 7-10), when Xi'an (then called Chang'an 长安- "Eternal peace" - Xi'an current name means "Knowing the West") was the capital of the country, and China experienced perhaps the biggest period of prosperity in its history when the silk route between China and Arab countries traveled hundreds of caravans, when in Xi'an lived thousands of foreigners, women were playing polo and ideal of beauty was not frail anorexic, but the corpulent painted doll ...

钟楼 Bell Tower - a building, who know all the tourists, as she is in the heart of the city, and beside it is the oldest open to foreign tourists Bell Tower Hotel (foreigners can live in China only in selected hotels 涉外 宾馆, now almost all but a dozen years ago was the relatively few). Tower - the largest such structure in China - now stands at the intersection of two major roads in the city center (the part surrounded by walls); built in 1384, is 36 meters high, and it hangs inside of a giant, 5-ton bell. The tower originally stood opposite the Tower Drum (where the middle of the city was located before the advent of the Ming Dynasty 明朝 - ie before 1368), but in 1582 I was moved to its current location. Inside the tower hangs a bell weighing five tons - were cast him in the end of the fifteenth century, the bell was bigger earlier - weighed more tone and made it to the early 8th century. Apparently Bell Tower after moving to a new location the old Bell lost his voice and needed a new bell was hanging.

Tiger Pillows - Tiger motif decorates August in China, also part of clothing or equipment used by small children. The aim is to deter bad power. Approach this from a distance and smile indulgently, seeing Little Ones in Chinese tiger hats or Tiger 虎 帽 Butkach 虎 鞋, but during his stay in the house master's son noticed the tiny altar. Curious, I started it to researchers and specialists - Fangfang told me that he was an altar in the family for many generations - and I noticed a strange gun lying before him. As it turned out it was a tiger bone, which the master had brought from Singapore (the killing of tigers in the PRC is severely punished, even though it was once widespread dealings with the specific properties wgledu their bones - I have written about this before). Fangfang explained that if you give Apparently sniff dog or wolf tiger bone powder, it'll take it under her tail and flee in fear - Such is the strength of the same bone. Hence, the shrine had a bone to deter bad just under the house. On the other hand near the altar lay a dog owner, and somehow did not show fear, no but maybe because he was your, and not possessed by the evil powers ...

kebabs Ram 羊肉 串 - the trade in them is dominated by Uighurs, even in the Muslim quarter in Xi'an, inhabited mainly by the Hui nationality 回族, can meet-selling skewers of Uighurs. This colorful nation, their loud calls, jokes and laughter bluff are a nice accent among the more expressive or emotional little Chinese people.

甘蔗 Sugarcane is a natural and healthy delicacy. You can buy it in most markets, fruit and vegetable in China, often also on the street. Served either in the form of 40-50cm pieces, peeled, hard, purple color of bark - then it bites off pieces of August, bites in the mouth, sucking the juice, then spits out the rest dry. Another way - for the lazy and those with poor teeth - is squeezed juice drinks (like in the photo) with a juicer. NB my dentist says that because the Chinese have nice teeth, I eat a lot of raw or half-raw, hard vegetables, also bite the umor pits (sometimes these can be noted from cesciowo threadbare front incisors, already the seeds). The dentist claimed that the worst order - which has encountered in his practice - in May the Japanese (but why) and Germany (known sauerkraut ...)

week course can not miss your favorite Paomo - one of the two famous - except the ravioli Jiaozi - Food Xi'anu:

and restaurants have plenty of soup kitchen clients, the fire crackled in the furnaces. Kitchener Chinese vegetables are fried in so-called. Wokach ( Guo 锅, briefly but the deep oil. Vegetables are sprayed, partially fried, partially cooked, but at the same time retain their nutritional value, and vitamins. Chinese people do not eat salads practically, they think that eating raw vegetables is unhygienic. When cooking oil, often deals with the fire, which gives additional light effects. Unfortunately, in connection with this way of cooking food in Chinese homes often far from the ideal of purity - not only the stove, but the walls are covered with a thin film inches of oil, whose glued to the dirt. Hence, if you want to rent an apartment, pay close attention to the kitchen - they are the most often - next to the bathrooms - the weakest link in its entirety.

About Chinese noodles we could write a whole book. There are dozens of them kinds - Trailed napopularniejszy is pasta (I think they should still call it) Lanzhou Lanzhou La Mian 拉面 兰州 - the cake is so mined 活 面 (this requires effort and time) that is very malleable and does not tear when stretched; pulls So do you eat first to draw arms on the sides, then consists in half, stretch again, and so a dozen times, until the pasta becomes a suitably thin. Another type of pasta is cut with a knife Dao Xiao Mian 刀削面. A large piece of dough urobionego chef keeps in one hand and the other a sharp cleaver (Chinese people prefer a cleaver and uses it for cutting knife as we do) cuts of the vats of boiling 10cm strips of pasta water, which after cutting, fall into the boiling water. What's bigger "artists" I have set the cake on his head, then cut down with his two hands pasta, in which you hold fast choppers.
Other interesting types of pasta, a Cat's Ears 猫耳朵 and "pimples" 搓 疙瘩. It's getting them, based on a small lump of dough and use your thumb to "rubbing," I am in the second hand. Noodles wrapped in August on the shape of cat ears or flat spirals. NB Chinese claim that they were the first with pasta and Italians learned to make their art on the Marco Polo ...

easiest and least time consuming way to make pasta, then squeezing it (picture cottage industry "squeezer" was the previous entry) 压 面, so is the pasta is getting on an industrial scale.

When it comes to the same cooking, boil the pasta and you can enter it in the soup with vegetables or meat - it is called then it 汤面 noodles in soup. It can also fry 炒面. Alternatively it can be cooked then drain, put into a bowl, then add the separately prepared "butter" 卤面, such as eggs and tomatoes. For each of these modes you can add an acute paste, vinegar or soy sauce. Two provinces, famous for its pasta is 陕西 Shaanxi and Shanxi 山西. The latter is known for its production of wine vinegar 陈醋, which added to many dishes, too, of course pasta. Apparently because the water in Shanxi is alkaline, and health need to be to eat large amounts of vinegar.

Pasta them chopsticks, which requires certain skills, what else can draw the long strands of pasta with two poles. To be able to eat our noodles in this way must be good "string" - such as pasta literally sucks. Hence the Chinese pub with pasta is filled with the sounds of such a literal "pulling" and siorbania. TERMINALS pasta Niewprawnym people will be "danced" and uswinia clothes completely, so you better give up the pasta when it is officially dressed. Shaanxi Province

(which is already the capital of Xi'an) is famous for its beautiful cut-outs. Women in rural areas, when winter comes and there is no field work, sit at home (a typical house are the types of dugouts carved into a yellow 窑洞 Lessi) on heated beds Kang 炕 (this is basically the type of furnace, as in our old tenements stoves, but It is flat and serves as a bed) and with scissors cut intricate cutouts. These cutouts amazing precision and artistic skill, mostly from the red color, were stuck on the doors of homes for decoration and to deter evil spirits. Until today I enjoy them very popular and orginalna souvenir from a trip to Shaanxi.

Drum Tower 鼓楼 stands at the entrance to the Muslim quarter. Built in 1380, was originally located in the giant drum, whose sound proclaim the changes worth (Chinese people shared a day for 12 worth - a two-hour periods). Drum has not survived to our time, but the remaining tower. Because
drum sound is not too loud, from 5 to ne bells started to be used (apparently sound dwonu in Beijing, he carried a distance 25km!), Which pretended to time during the day, while the drums - at night.

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Xi'an 西安 - treats people and a few stories

recently returned from a nearly week-long stay with Xi'anu. Xi'an is the former capital of the country, much richer than the history of Beijing, a city world-famous primarily as the discoverer of the famous terracotta army of the first emperor China, Qin Shi Huang 秦始皇. Almost every trip, who came to China, is in the program visit the terracotta army museum.

Photo - Former street leading to the biggest museum of stone steles - the oldest and calligraphy - in China:

My stay in Xi'an focused on the daily practices of the master - get up at 6:00, drive to Muslim district 回 坊 for breakfast, a passage under the city walls (Xi'an is surrounded by calculating the over 600 years of massive walls), the exercise of a master and a group of his students, then the transition to lunch, back to the hotel, siesta, again exercise - first standalone , then the house master dinner at his house, coming back to the hotel, taking notes, the silence of the night. After 2 days, then decided that I will not be wasted time for an afternoon nap, and twice I went to the famous temple of the Eight Immortals; evening and ridden to the Muslim quarter, which you can not refuse specific color - a lot of wide assortment of food, shops, lots of people, tourists, Hui Muslims both nationalities 回族 and 维吾尔族 Uighurs, a completely different side of China ...

photos - a favorite place for morning exercises residents Xi'anu parks are situated along the huge walls of the city:

photos - Gate Wenchang 文昌 门 in the southern parts of the wall:

Writing about Xi'an is a must to mention local dishes. I was in town several times, both alone and with family, as well as leading tours of the Polish. Attractions in the form of monuments little different variations I have already trimmed (except perhaps the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum 陕西 历史博物馆, in which a visit is always a fascinating trip into the deep past of China). Food in Xi'an is not bored me at all, however. So I can not skip it here. Probably the best kitchen you can find in the Muslim quarter. First • No pork, which to me means the opportunity to eat everything; second great taste - distinct, with a predominance of Arabic spices, and of course the ubiquitous hot peppers; third swietne sweets - including authentic halva, which is not unlike me to associate with childhood, when she was a rare and a true rarity.

Photo - pepper-paprika soup 胡 辣汤 tastes like cream in the morning ...

morning usually ate soup pepper-paprika Hulatang 胡 辣汤. May seem strange that the morning matches Aug. empty stomach spicy food, but somehow I had never, therefore, no stomach trouble. Soup comes in two versions - henanskiej (from the province of Henan 河南) - Is a thick, glossy, have entered into starch, with cabbage, potatoes, sweet peppers and meatballs wolowymi, taste a little bit of goulash soup resembles ours, and the variety of Shaanxi 陕西 - this is dark, with a damn what he knows, because it is opaque, but is also very tasty.

Photo - Muslim soup sales company Hulatang on the street:

Mandatory For soups are bought from Mo 馍 thick cake, said to be the typical thing for the Arab cuisine, which grinds to a rather thick pieces, melted them in the soup , and so is eating. Because the soup is quite thick, often after it drank the warm milk or soy Doujiang 豆浆 rice gruel, or thin Xifan 稀饭. For some reason unknown to me Chinese people do not drink tea in the morning, at most hot boiled water or rice gruel already.

photos - all kinds of nuts, almonds and dried dates offered at stalls in the Muslim district:

One day we took a break from the soup, and the variety we had probably the most typical Chinese breakfast - a kind of "caddis" cooked deep oil, ie. Youtiao 油条. Virtually all of China in the morning you can see how the street, on makeshift stoves made from metal oil drums, cooking August Youtiao, stand next to the tables at which customers are free it consumes the air, most often by eating soy cheese also called light "soy Brain" Doufunao 豆腐 脑, the consistency of jelly, to which is added different spices and silage, we have our Youtiao eaten with soya milk.

Photo - Mi Family Restaurant serving Paomo is always full:

When it comes to lunch, my favorite is dominated Paomo 泡 馍. Paomo is a typical Muslim food delicacy. In short you can say that it is a kind of soup with meat and pieces of cake. It is an interesting Preparation - in which, moreover, client takes an active part. The first thing is to pay the bill - then it must also decide whether you want to beef or mutton soup. Generally, the latter is considered to be tastier and more nutritious (Chinese people regard the lamb meat, "warm", whose eating effectively warms the body and protects against the cold), what's interesting, yet i found Paomo of mutton, which would have had a nasty smell of this characteristic, which You can often meet with mutton dishes served in our country. Gets empty bowl and a few (depending on orders) small patches Mo 馍. In addition, everyone gets - the money - a small saucer of pickled garlic, sweet T angsuan 糖蒜 and acute pasta with peppers.

photos - head of the pub is holding money (my husband is not worthy of trust) on the small talerzykach cakes, sweet garlic and hot pepper:

With all this sits at the table - but how about the place is not open for lunch easily - and proceeds to tear the cake into small pieces (in the case Hulatang pieces were large and the Paomo the finer, the effect is better). Drac cake you can talk with my friends, this is - I'm usually in Chinese cuisine - a great opportunity to exchange views, develop closer systems, etc.. After reduction in August it gives the cake the waiter, who in a dirty smock uwija August between the tables. He asks what we want soup (beef or mutton) then gives us a quickie metal. The kitchen in our meat is thrown into a bowl, usually with a big piece of fat, soya noodles 粉丝, some vegetables, poured soup, then a whole is boiled. After about 15 minutes the waiter comes out of the bowl and wywrzaskuje our number - and gives us the soup after its presentation. Interestingly, in muscle can see no longer fat - it completely melted during cooking.

Photo - Beating cake Mo :

My favorite place, in which it is served is Paomo Family Restaurant Mi 米 家 泡 馍 馆 in a Muslim neighborhood. It is very famous, all the elements - meat, garlic, cakes - are made according to special recipes, which gives a rather unique taste effect. Unfortunately, sometimes it comes to mistakes, and get a cake soup with crushed not ours, but strangers dirty paws. The pub is mentioned as a family one day daddy took her son, money, and illegal factories surrounded the few football teams. As a result, they lost one million yuan, and then for a long time, not only with Paomo quality has deteriorated rapidly, but also service firmly declined. But I guess either already went out on his own, or come to each other, because during this visit, the food was better than ever. Paomo served in several ways, depending on the amount of soup in which you are given up to them for consumption. Family prepares them to me so. dry 干 泡 way - gets to eat pieces of cake soaked in soup, so that in the bowl, there is practically liquid, another way to enter is called. The city is surrounded by water 水 围城 - in this case is so soup in a bowl that surrounds it, and placed in the middle of present-soaked pieces of cake.

Photo - croissants Mahu served in the "oily tea from fine bone:

Another delicacy is called. 麻花 Mahu, a type of baked, twisted hard "croissants". They are served in the so-called. Oily tea Youcha 油茶 - thrown to her, cooked through moments to soften, and served in a bowl with soup. Sam Youcha is brewing on the brown powder - quite recently learned that the bones are ground beef. "Tea" is often used for sweet - sugar, walnuts and raisins. Muslims do in fact have a knack for cooking. Besides Paomo and Hulatang course, offers lamb skewers Famous 羊肉 串, pancakes stuffed with meat, Xiao Chao 小炒 (made as Paomo, but with hot pepper), various pasta (served in soup - something like our soup with noodles ) or fried. It can not miss also ravioli Jiaozi 饺子 of whom Xi'an is famous (in the tour is called. dumplings 饺子 宴 Adoption, during which serves dozens of kinds of dumplings with different fillings and different shapes). Most are Jiaozi in sour soup 酸汤 饺子 - as the name suggests, they are served in soup with plenty of vinegar. It's particulars, and besides them there are also other specialties - dried dates, walnuts, almonds, and hundreds of different candy - I especially liked the above-mentioned halva and walnut stuffed 花生 酥 persimonowe cakes flavored with osmanthus 黄桂 柿饼. The latter requires explanation.

Photo - Persimonowe pancakes during frying:

Now persimony is a type of fruit, which looks a bit like tomatoes, the trees grow and mature in autumn. You can eat them raw, but only mature, because before that are horribly bitter. Persimon mature is one who is in the middle is completely liquid, and the skin is very soft. You can eat teaspoon flesh is very sweet. Somewhere in October 1990 the school took us on a trip to the imperial tombs in Beijing. There is a lot of fruit orchards, including many already persimonowych. A colleague from Bangladesh polakomil on them, buying a few from a roadside shop assistant, and began to consume them on the bus. After a few minutes drive was messy like a baby, because I do not persimony daly to eat normally in his hand. After returning to the dorm in August led to right, but the dozen or so hours later it started to be cleaned from inside the hey ... Madre write the book, with a ripe raw persimon good for constipation, but consumed in large quantities evokes diarrhea. Interestingly, cooked, in turn, stops the diarrhea ... Persimony are stuffed with candied walnuts and beaten with sugar osmanthus flowers (they are very small, most often yellow flowers, a very intense aroma, bloom in autumn), look like small, round cakes, and are sold at many stalls in the Muslim quarter Xi'anu.

Photo - Senior Muslim reading newspaper on the street - even better winter to go out than sit closed in the house:

Muslims in Xi'an is a fairly closed community, clutching each other in their enclave 回 坊. Have a great knack for trade, also the fine, they work hard, often from an early age. Employed are often teenage boys aged 12-13 years, originates from the poor western provinces of China polnconego (usually 甘肃 Gansu and Ningxia 宁夏) gets 70 yuan (about U.S. $ 10) per month, plus the wasted food, a place to sleep you have to find themselves, usually somewhere in the basement. If the landlord will allow for them to sleep in a bar on the complex tables, then consider this as a distinction. He gets up at 3 am, they go to buy products to prepare breakfast for clients, then helps them cook, sell meals, then work again in preparation for lunch, 3 hours of sleep, and again work, usually about midnight. Work is a slave, boys are often treated brutally by the owner, no wonder it is precisely among them the criminality is rife. Authorities look at the affair through her fingers, because the issue of minority national pride - especially those who profess Islam - has always been a delicate (frequent conflicts between native Chinese - Han - a Chinese Muslims), and beyond that - as the old saying goes - in the fresh water fish, not live can 水 至 清 则无 鱼.

Photo - pancakes stuffed with vegetables or meat and vegetable fried are on the spot:

PEOPLE ...

... in the north of China is clearly different from those in the south. Most southerners are slim and petite, but Chinese people from the north are distinctly larger, roslejsi. To this have different facial features, and strongly generalizing can say that those from the north look more "classically". Chinese people from the north refer to southerners, rather contemptuously, sometimes calling them "petty thieves," 瘪三 (Shanghainese this term, but already widely accepted throughout the country) because of the rickety appearance and falsehood in his eyes ... During my stay I had the opportunity to watch a lot of street scenes, and talk with friends from Xi'anu.

Photo - Fried Mo in two sizes - larger for stuffing, less grinding:

First of all, they know how to drink, really. Overall opinion about the Chinese is such that it can be drunk small amounts of alcohol (which is a joke with a beard - the student says, "we bought a bottle of beer at three and then I do not remember already "...). Apparently, even the scientists noticed that some Chinese people are missing an enzyme that breaks down alcohol, the dose of small stocks allows them to your leg. My observations, however, are completely different. Inhabitants Xi'anu can drink, and it's a lot. Prefer skunk above 50 degrees (weak alcohol punches to the head of the delay, falls under the table before a man realizes that he has enough - so I explained.) Minor drink glasses, but a lot, starting from the general toast and then drink each with each, or more of one. A friend told me that one of his friends likes vodka, I once got drunk heavily, came out of the pub, and after a few steps, he began to vomit. How do I ask him whether there is still a drunk, then replied that in 80%. Once again it took time, but the same question, replied that in 60% ... Another drank until the bleeding from the stomach. It's all about who can not refute the myth of the Chinese drink.

Photo - Muslim pub - in the middle of August dumplings served in soup, sour and sweet on the outside of what sells-bit - pancakes persimonowe:

Another thing - are eager to fights. I was witness to a situation where two guys were sitting next to each other on the sidewalk, and had cleaned the shoes pucybutow. Suddenly, suddenly roared to a second, the second cast in the bunch, they both stood up, then one suddenly went first and scored on him in the face. That even will not be shaken, he started to throw more first bluzgi, the first probably lost a little rezonu, pulled out mobile phone and started dwonic for help (when I joined the crowd of onlookers to hear what goes wrong): "Take three men and come quickly, not forget to take giwer (带 三 个人 快 过来, 别忘 带 东西). I think myself will shambles, but the second as he heard that he left it fast, also caught on the corner and drove off ... The situation quite like the movie.

Photo - pucybuci street - in a place I have witnessed fights:

Travelling from Xi'anu bus to the airport I saw a similar situation - the taxi driver muttered something there, after an unsuccessful course of catching the customer to the airport, the customer is heard , then moved on, yelled at him, but laid the taxi driver learns at each other, started to look at the sides and silly smile (smile is a sign of embarrassment at the Chinese people.)

Photo - pasta can be done in different ways, also squeeze in those wooden jaws:

colleague told me that often comes to fighting, he repeatedly he took part in them. Once a friend from school were at the mall. Came to the flame war with seasonal workers, the laborers struck a friend, it felt like blood, it conquered the rage, grabbed a person on a bicycle, and with all his strength zdzielil nearest assailant, the man covered in blood, he fell unconscious to the ground (the rule is that in the event clashes with a lot of attackers, you should not fight with everyone, but we choose possible weak and cripple him in this way rejecting others to fight). She came by the shop called police, she colleague, his friend and a group of laborers to the police station. The officer looked at my colleague He said: "You can see right away that nice of you scamp." Suddenly the phone rang, the officer went out for a while, then came back and asked the workers: "Are You Xi'anu outside, do not you know that its inhabitants speak quite sharply, but this is normal with us, and I do not mean to argue with someone. " "And you" - here he turned to his colleague and friend - "you have to pay 200 yuan for disorderly conduct." The guys paid for, the workers left, and when the doors were closed behind them, the officer ... gave them the money! It turned out that in the meantime, a friend rang to a friend, who is head of the local branch of our militia 武警 counterpart in Xi'an, and he immediately contacted the police station commander, and the matter was settled. The guys came out of the station and waited for their workers with an apology, saying "we are outsiders, we do not have trouble here, we have gathered together 400 yuan, please, take them to consent."

Photo - roasting nuts in the hot sand - all mixed in a special mixer:

This story, told to me by the character of events, by the way is well illustrated by the power of law in the Middle ... No wonder that last year when a peasant from Xi'an demanded the justice, went to take a bus of Australian tourists as hostages, in return, posing a meeting with the Chief of Police in the city. This situation ended in August, like all similar - Terrorist shooting by a sniper.

Returning to the fighting - these situations are unlikely to have their own place in the south - yes, there are flame war, but it rarely comes to blows. And if at all, it is usually a woman wrap guy ...

Photo - Muslim sells halva (in red papierkach):

Drivers in Xi'an ride very fast and generally have a foot deep. This is not a rarity, cultural drivers in China can be counted on the fingers. In Shanghai, I got used to "enforce" precedence during the transition to stripes on a green light (taxis usually cut down before passers-by, or allowed to enter between them on the strip, especially when the twist and have a conditional green light). In Xi'an also so tried, and some times literally brush with death, in the end buddy did not categorically forbade me this behavior. Besides, during my short stay in Xi'an occurred inch series of accidents, including one particularly tragic, where the truck "Liberation" 解放 entered the group of children going to school on bikes, killing four of them, the driver fled the scene. Police offered 100tys. yuan reward for a person who will help find it (NB in \u200b\u200btoday's newspaper already read, the driver turned himself in to police).

town lies on the trail of the wild west of China to the east, also drug transport routes, hence the criminality is large, especially be careful about around the railway station, which locals have a bad fame. Foreigners in China who may feel more secure, also victims of attacks - a friend from Germany before the train It took two teenagers walkman (it was half of the 90s) under the threat of a knife.

Xi'an has its own atmosphere, interesting stories, lots of monuments, on which the need to explore the full year, plus Starbucks, with free Internet access. It has dark and light side, like every place, but it can be liked.

Especially for the food ...

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It's only (Chinese) Rock'n'roll ...

... or rock music in China. During those nearly two decades of stay in this beautiful country I had the opportunity to follow development of the local rock music genre in Asia rather total stranger. As it turns out not so much again. Although in the minds of many Asians are only good at copying, rather quickly found the Chinese people own identity. Their first star was, without doubt, Cui Jian 崔健, starting in the second half of the 80s from the western alterations charts, and who later went his own way, assuming the band ADO, touring throughout China and beyond, singing, even for the demonstrators on the square Tian'an ' men. Cui Jian music was captivating, and the word is often directly showing the weak points of the political system.

Shortly thereafter several other bands - the Black Panthers and the Tang Dynasty 黑豹 唐朝, have played rock music On a lighter and heavier issue. Cui Jian band broke into the beginning of the '90s, its members went their separate ways, they started experimenting, and at the same time the music scene began to do more and more interesting. Dou Wei 窦唯 decadent played albums of garbage dump in the center of interest, Zhang Chu 张楚 involve elements of Beijing folk music into their melodies, and next to these dinosaurs appeared on the underground, secretly bands playing at small venues, often in pubs. These bands multiply like mushrooms after rain. Beijing - the capital not only political but also cultural China - has become a major magnet for angry young from all over the country. Do not count the way all those bands, the fact that the young people had the Finally something besides its ubiquitous pop from Taiwan and Hong Kong, had his music, songs about their problems and not have any religion unconvincing love braggart with aromatic Port (or Hong Kong).

to the good stuff - I like the music, not just Chinese classical and jazz but also rock, and when it turned out that on Jan. 17 in the Factory Snow (Dream Factory), the music club in Shanghai, there will be a concert of four bands of recording for the sophisticated MaybeMars Beijing, the Jur Festival, I could not forgive such an occasion. I took the camera, I got on well, and in the evening I went to the club. Frankly, from the little I did not want, because I was already late, but I forced myself.

I do not regret. The concert had

begin at 21:00, but the rock stars love to tell each other to wait. I had a little problem finding a factory, but the friendly security guard pointed my way. I bought a ticket for the whole Y80, went to the club, I was there for the first time, so not quite know where the hall. She showed usher stairs, went down, and immediately gave me this specific atmosphere waiting for a dose of adrenaline. Shook a little round room, there was a lot of foreigners, at least half of all gathered, such events usually attract non-Chinese people already. An extreme example is the Rolling Stones concert in Shanghai, where the audience, 90% were foreigners.

After a while I found a good place for filming, the barrier near position, with the decks. Where I had a working camera, no one could go before my nose, everything was on a platform, scene could be seen perfectly. Frankly, I'd rather be at the scene, the crowd, which happens most and you can always pokolebac August but remain locked threads from the filming. Was therefore at the table and wait for us to begin.

After a long wait until the completed first some electronic chatter, and then tuning instruments, the band began to play first.

Okudo AV (AV 大 久保) or the AVO Wuhanu in central China, the game fairly light rock, in which facynacje hear pop from Hong Kong, but I can see that you guys have him healthy distance, a bit like Quentin Tarantino in "Pulp Ficton" - but the specific form of content odlotowa. August kick-started the auditorium, music rhythmic, melodic, at the scene even started to "jump into the water," 跳水, that is the culprit jumped from the stage directly to the dancing crowd - always happily caught, but probably because they were in the majority of foreigners ...

Selected mnnie and I loaded three songs on Youtube AVO can be found here: Playlist
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Once on the scene entered the young man in spectacles, who, accompanied by two buddies on the keys, and to the accompaniment of electronic music, sing psychedelic pieces. It SNAPLINE , a team of three students of the Beijing technical colleges - and who says that engineers have no talent in art ... the young man - Chen Xi 陈曦 - sung in English, and it's pretty good, and although music Snapline in total is quite hermetic , then they can not refuse to create a specific atmosphere. The crowd jumped on stage do not, but clearly he was listening intently. Snapline a band discovered by Martin Atkins, drummer Public Image Ltd. from the United States, who mobilized the band to release first album, remixing I am in Chicago.

I will not hide from the rather monotonous music scene Snapline entrance to the three female, who once have made a good impression on me piwsko drinking straight from the bottle, has been well received by the audience. This ourself BEHIND ME or OBM , the band also from Beijing. Not in China in total, too many girls rock bands, and singing girls usually pulpy pop from the south. These, in Beijing have shown, however, class, and not only in the Chinese national drinking beer Qingdao 青岛 啤酒 (one might say that it is the best in the world, but everyone knows that the best is Leżajsk Full ...), but also the lively sounds of mining with guitars. Beer is not touched only a drummer, maybe ran a ... The band played a nice, my mates from the Velvet Underground. Moreover, the entire concert, aimed to promote new album, an album issued by a sophisticated Mars 兵马司 Maybe. Polish label founded and run by foreigners doing a good job, although the Chinese community of rock fans were a little storm, with their good bands have been bought by zagraniczniakow ...

More on the Playlist OBM.

Well after midnight, already on January 18, stepped on the scene at the end of the nail, which Carsick Cars . By the crowd gathered at the scene as if passed prad - and not surprised. The band at all not previously known to me, so full of surprise. Their music can be described in one word: buzz! Zhang 张 守望 Shouwang, Leader, singer and guitarist of the band really knows what he serves on guitar, and gave Niezly show their skills. The band plays jumps, has a big group of fans not only in China but also awakens growing interest abroad. Carsick Cars performed together with Sonic Youth in China, gave concerts in Europe, Zhang was repeatedly in the U.S., and his solo concert in Beijing in March 2008 was recognized by the world famous music critic Alex Ross of The New Yorker, regarded as one of the top ten Classical music performances (!) of the Year 2008, Ross held Shouwanga as "the most talented musician of any stage."
not surprised - Carsick Cars is also on my top.

More on the Playlist Carsick Cars .

More about Jue Festival and the artists presented in this framework can be read here , but about the sophisticated Maybe Mars - here.

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Lunch with the Master Kungfu

As every year, old year ends and begins a new one. Usually it does every year. But the measure is a beautiful country it just twice a year. First comes the new year, this our, Gregorian, 1 January. Not getting this because of some great feta here, two days off, a reduction in the shops, the end. That's really the most important premise is that for a few weeks will come true - ie Chinese New Year. On his coming of everyone waiting and strongly in August preparing for it. Shopping spree (I and big reductions in the stores), companies gala dinners, any bonuses, crazy train stations - with the president on the country appeals to railroad, to flexible solving the issues of purchasing tickets. May railwaymen quite a nut to crack, because in a few weeks must prewiezc hundreds of millions of passengers. Once the matter zalatwialo season ticket prices to increase by 15%, now already the "inhuman" approach does not apply. Even China's atrocious start to worry about the body and its problems.

Photo - Champion has a style and likes to walk in the Hat (fashion is still from the time the old Shanghai) - This brought him to the Polish

Shops are decorated with red - not because the country is communist, but with the color red is happy here. Blood flowing in the veins is red, is the symbol of the vibrant. A corpse is cold and white - stocks in China white is the color of death and adversity. Hence, Chinese people in various joyous occasions - weddings, birth of a child - they say "red file" 红 事.

Some argue that the red banner of Mao's communist endeared broad masses of superstitious peasants during the Great March 长征.

We prepare for the New Year ida normally. It is known that the night does not wyspimy, because the window will explode like the carpet bombing, and the stench of gunpowder fills the apartment, despite closed windows. Traditionally, water supply pipe broke, so there is no water and no bath with August probably in the next few days. Because who has to fix me, like all anglers went to their home village, to spend holidays with their families. There is no harm, for we are not dirty again, because the man in the freezing temperatures in August virtually no sweat. In Shanghai apartments there is no central heating, winter so we can only rely on oil heaters and air conditioners. The latter are at freezing temperatures almost no heat (pogrzeja for a moment, then blow cold air rozmrazajac August), in addition to the fatal seal housing, and so the heating destroys entire effort. By the way - heaven forbid! - Almost did not get sick, while family and friends in the country every moment some flu grabs. Cold chow has its advantages ...

From this cold and lack of water have little choice but to go somewhere and hide in a hotel with water and heating, and somehow wait a difficult Christmas period. Tomorrow I go the bus station, what if August will arrange tickets - you must return, because otherwise the "spring summits" do not come back on time.

Photo - Pic must umic - drinking in China is always accompanied by food, at least at the beginning of libations:

On Sunday 18 January we went for Christmas lunch. Have invited my kungfu master, his wife and several of my "brothers" (ie, buddies, with whom together we learn from him in August) to the pub. Master and my buddies are the Chinese Hui Muslims 回族 nationalities. Differs little in appearance from those of native Chinese people, although some people have some other features. Apparently Hui are descendants of Arab and Persian traders who arrived in China, spice and silk route, got pozwolnie from the emperor to settle in the country and marriage with chinkami. It was the first wave, about 8 / 9 century, another was in 12/13, when the friendly armies of the West helped the Mongolian conquerors of the world in their conquests. Since that time hundreds of years have passed already, so the appearance is difficult to distinguish between them, Some people just have a more square jaws, larger noses, but the language they speak Chinese, it really cemented their Islam, a faith traditions - mainly food - and shared no reluctance to the Chinese people.

Photo - Champion, uses the story of China's twentieth century ...

Pub suggested the Master, said that it is swietna lamb, it turned out that it belongs to his disciple, moreover, descended from the same village as the master, or Shenqiu 沉 丘 in the province of Henan 河南.

Master is an interesting figure, is 91 years old, holding on to great, jokes, has a volatile, quick-witted mind, and rarely in people in such an advanced age. In early childhood was orphaned, then went to a famous Shaolin Temple, in which he taught for several years of martial arts, but would leave him when the monks insisted that shaved his head and changed their faith. Then went to Wuhanu 武汉, where he learned the secret of Chinese Muslims fighting style, which was their tool of self-defense to the dominant Chinese. Already in Wuhan often took part in fights with the Chinese, and his teacher, Mai Jinkui 买 金奎, was very famous of the numerous skirmishes. Mai Jinkui Wuhanu also came to the Henanu, applied for a job unloading ships at the docks of the city, but the local mafia did not want to admit him. It came to fighting, in the end it was decided to resolve the matter peacefully duel. Mise iron boiled oil, thrown into the coin, and ordered that stretch who I am, this will be the supervisor laborers on the docks. Mai Jinkui not had much to lose and much to gain instant traffic and pulled out coin from the bottom of the bowl with boiling liquid. Apparently his forearm remained black for life. So the Master worked at the docks in Wuhan, but after a few years he decided to go to the then Chinese Eldorado, a town that attracted adventurers from home and abroad.

In the beginning was not easy, but hard fist Master helped establish the position of man, which you better not catch. Quickly became famous for skills in fights, often by local Muslims asked him to help resolve cases. One of them was the release of his wife of one of them - she was kidnapped by the Axe Gang 斧头 帮 (so called because his favorite weapon were members of an ax), and sells spirited women to brothels, master arranged affair Without going into a brawl with "soldiers" gang, he's one - with a giant flail made of two long chain of connected Kiev - against several dozens. Champion to this day regret his actions, I regret that many a person deprived of health. Sure, and life, but it is never mentioned.

for those acts performed by the Master spent a year in prison, where we put him communists, when Shanghai was occupied in 1949. They put on two years for huliganstwo, and probably deservedly. Released for good behavior after one year.

Before liberation in 1949 champion took part in events organized by the Du Yueshenga 杜月笙, Shanghai mafia head. Breaking bricks, stocks of buffalo, a meat cleaver cutting watermelons situated on the naked torso - that were typical "Tricks", which raczono mob in various charity events arranged by mafias. Du Yuesheng began his career on the sale of sweet potatoes to finally stand at the head of the largest organizations controlling the opium trade - and that is "hidden" hand of government when they had to discuss a the striking workers in Shanghai. As everyone mafiozo, besides the informal power and money also wanted to raise their status and gain acceptance and respect for higher layers - hence the charities and donations, which had for a local community generously.

When Shanghai ruled "traitor" Wang Jingwei 汪精卫, champion, he went with a delegation of local specialists melee to Japan to give a demonstration before Emperor Hirohito. Show turned into a series of fights, because the Japanese gymnastic demonstrations efficiency impressions did. Master stood in a duel with a local expert swordsmanship, previously agreed with the manager of the group that in the event that what his body is to be transported from powotem to China and buried there. At night ostrugal a stick, and stood against the same stick Japonczykowi. How to Master says, the whole fight lasted moments - The Japanese first attacked with a vertical incision from top to bottom, the Master did a small step to the side, Break a sword on the side of one end of the stick, and the second a little which is not crushed Japonczykowi occiput. But stick stopped at the last moment - and for that, inter alia, received a special badge on Hirohito. Plaque master's wife burned during the Cultural Revolution when the Reds Revolution Guards ransacked apartment searching for the hidden right-wingers in the house will hold the humiliating evidence of connection with the rest of the world and the old culture.

Photo - The Master with his wife - are together for 67 years:

champion after liberation gradually gained favor with the local union of martial arts, going repeatedly to tournaments all over China. To this day is considered a living legend of Chinese martial arts, not those acrobatics and gymnastics, but the ones where you had to lie down frequently lives on the line of fate, not being sure whether to come back home to be alive. Master

we strive respect, we like him, he is, moreover, very open and social person, likes to party. Once I liked to drink (and nothing not bother him that he was a Muslim), and that large amounts of liquor and 50% more, but a stroke gave him a lesson. Being 78 years old threw alcohol completely, and again returned to a pretty good form.

So on Sunday we went to the eastern side of the river and at the master zjawilismy little after 11 o'clock before noon. Already waiting for us with his wife and some student - as it turned out the owner of the pub, where we had lunch. Moments of sort of talking about the good old days, obalilismy glass of green tea, and we went to a bar. Took us to his dray (Chinese roadster) pupil master. We arrived fifteen minutes later, before the pub was already waiting group of my old buddies - the Henanu Xinjian, Lao Jiang (with Bozhou 亳州 old bully, but a regular guy), Lao Liu (my good friend, with whom, moreover, cwiczymy on the side of yet another style), to the two friends from Shenqiu in Henanie - mentioned a pub landlord and a merchant kosher meat for the Muslim restaurant.

Muslims - but to have less alcohol or more orthodox approach - combines the habit of eating only kosher meat. Such meat is beef or mutton - pork, dog, etc., are taboo. Meat is kosher if it comes from a kosher slaughter. Most importantly, to bring the whole blood was drained from the animal. This is certainly health reasons, I once heard that in the Middle Ages were made from blood poison swine, pigs szczujac dogs to death. There is no doubt that the animal feeling the approaching zmierc in the slaughterhouse proportions of different kind of toxins into the blood. I'm not a biologist, I do not know this, but some sense in it. Muslim restaurants in China, always have a green signboard with some words in Arabic, and this in Chinese Qingzhen 清真 - kosher.

At the table sat another friend - Lao Tang. Lao Tang met a few months ago at the wedding son Lao Liu. Lao Liu had then it firmly in czubie, today I do not remember that I had earlier met a Lao Tang. Lao Tang was - except me and the two M - Muslim, not only at the table.

Photo - Lao Liu (left), not only good in kungfu, but also educated 文武双全, and Xinjian:

lunch we started from cold snacks, peanuts, cucumbers, garlic, Beef cut in the stomach spicy noodles. In the meantime brought pot - made of brass pot with a chimney, in which burned a warming alcohol in it soup. The soup was seasoned properly in advance. Each of us got - besides the traditional set of tableware - a special paste.

Kettle - Huoguo 火锅 - is very popular throughout China, especially northern, is widely believed that stems from Mongolia, but historians believe that is how most Chinese roots, and a famous ritual utensils - Ding tripods were 鼎Originally used as kettles of boiling food. Kettle is quite a convenient way to prepare food - the soup is cooked in it, and meat (usually lamb), vegetables, etc. - is served raw on plates. everyone assumes he sticks to what he wants, thrown into boiling soup in the pot, after a moment longer draws the kettle boiled, dipped in a paste and consumed. On cold days to sit at a round table, talking, cooking, yeah, of course, drinking alcohol at the same time, a great way to break the barriers of social, strengthening ties of friendship, contact with people.

Photo - Xinjian - thanks to him Chinese smierdziuchy not move it anymore:

Chinese white, I do not drink vodka for a long time already. Exactly from the moment his time as a similar event, I drank a lot of beer first, then with each table on the glass (and was the company of 12 people), then sat to the table and pulled out from behind the Xinjian moonshine under his arm from back home and invited me to drink. We started the pic, I am completely unaware of its power drink, at some point (remember how the fog) instead Xinji (who had evidently quite) a pic with me he started his 17-year-old son. There was nothing on zapitke, so I drank moonshine red wine. I do not know how long it lasted, I broke off a movie, and then remember only myself inclined over the sink and toilet in the restaurant trying to cleanse itself of poisons. Xiao Jin, my other dear friend and also a student teacher, patted me on the back and calmed. Two hours hung over the sink, and Xiao Jin drove me home. The big M gave me water with salt, but recovering from each other by a few good days, and probably smelled like 2 weeks. Smelled - because Chinese wodak 高粱 done on sorghum (a type of millet), has an intense smell, something between a Brzozówka denatured alcohol. At one time managed by the Polish tour, and a participant noted that smells like brandy, but no she did not have my experiences.

Anyway, I, M and Large owner kanjpy drank rice wine, and the rest of the company is stinking filth. After an hour we reached the Big J of the dorm - a little dimmed, he poured an exam, but he nalali smierdziuchy my buddies and I think the world has gained for him warm colors.

we ate primarily sheep. It must be cut into very thin slices, and is commonly done by freezing me and then it cut. However, in the orthodox pubs - and in doing so we were just - I use it Fresh raw lamb and cut fresh meat. This requires a real skill and sharp tools, but also gives a completely different taste. Cut into thin lamb cooks very quickly - I usually just dip two or three times in a cauldron of boiling soup, and already I can consume. In this connection, I called the "rinsed Mutton" 涮羊肉 - because cooking it looks like the clothes in the rinse water for dipping and drawing.

Mutton was really excellent. However, soon appeared on the table some rough parts ram difficult to identify. He pulled me closer to the Master plate, encouraging the consumption. I looked at the contents of the plate with suspicion, bearing the worst suspicions. I was not mistaken:

"This is the kernel of sheep, try, very tasty! 羊 蛋, 吃吧, 很 不错" - The Master said encouragingly
"Thank you, already he ate and the more I can not! 吃饱 撑 了, 吃不下 去" - I said

Fortunately, in the general bustle and noise of the matter is not attracted attention of other revelers, who certainly were to enter into the Master by enforcement to me to try the delicacy. In 1992, when a large M for the first time she came to me Beijing, one day we visited my then-teacher Taijiquan 太极拳. On the table was not much known to us treats and hospitable hosts believing that Corrects August with food, what better thrust us to the plate. At one point I put a teacher, something strange, as it turned out, cut into strips swine teaches. Then it acted like the owner of the consumed - hath large portions of the Big M wspolbiesiadnikom translating that "it is behind the lost ...".

cats must surely go baptism of fire.

Returning to Shanghai dinner - after a while appeared skewers various machines, which the owner of the pub hell for us in something resembling a gutter, outside a pub. Some of them were with meat, But a part is not the end. My brothers encouraged me to eat something white, like glass noodles. "It's tendons. We kungfu practitioner should we eat a lot of that, from the growing strength." Tendons are shown to be practically tasteless, but required hard teeth and jaw forces in. Surprisingly, Mala M much liked, but she is the best in our family to.

photos - with the owner of the pub has to drink every guy and a big M:

I am the owner of M and A large pub we drank rice wine, ie. "Yellow wine" 黄酒, a very respectable drink on cold winter days, which - in contrast to the Chinese "white" vodkas - no blinds - and outright Apparently promotes health. The rest of the company drunk kid. Excelled in the Lao Jiang. As already mentioned Jiang Lao has among students master fighter reviews. It is not the best in the exercises, neither the strongest nor najsprawnieszy, but he has an innate flair for the fights, which at critical moments, gives more than a year exercises. Lao Jiang likes to fight, and sometimes the master had to pull my contacts from the quagmire. China is such an interesting country where personal systems are often stronger than law. I remember that once students master one of the fatally beat someone, but the Master said then it is clear that nothing can not help - the crime was too serious, I use his knowledge and the circuitry may have something to help. Lao Jiang has a daughter, is very proud of her, she apparently is working, and after graduation found a good job in the office of health inspection (such our Sanepid). It's really quite a good job, taking into account how many can make it to the paw from the owners of pubs and food producers. On the other hand, after the recent scandals with poisoned milk powder, Sanlu's melanin 三鹿 (it came to a few thousand very heavy cases and many deaths of the children fed with milk), none of the controller does not take upon himself such a risk ...

Photo - Lao Jiang always in a cheerful mood, which do not depart even during the fights ...

lunch we started around noon, and we wound up somewhere after the fourth. I paid the account, I got paredziesiat yuan discount and it's good. The Master and his wife were already tired, they wanted to go back to yourself and take a nap (as it may here in the habit of not only the elderly, after-dinner nap is popular throughout the country), we said goodbye, drove the head of the pub, we have also started to say goodbye. Lao Liu took me to the page, the Lao Tang. Tang Lao

it supposedly too nice scamp. It looks a bit like a bank employee, in any case, intelligent. In fact, he does some strange businesses, has the nationality of Hong Kong, to which you left in the 80s. During the conversation at the table, we discussed the studies of our children, Xinjian wants to send his son to study in Australia, but failed to pass language tests. Big J is studying at Jiaotong University 交大, it is considered uczelna here for the estate, very lucky, because he managed to get a scholarship from the Chinese Government on the entire study (for which I am very grateful to keep such rzadowi - because our government refused, of course.) Financially, this means a big relief - a semester costs about 25tys. yuan, and the Big J still got the dorm and spending. Lao Tang nodded, saying that his daughter studying in the United States costs too 30tys semester., But the U.S. $. Later Tang Lao started to talk about their fights, said to them, and frequently some drunk when you do not completely controlled, once broke Apparently two policemen, causing a concussion. I was somehow hard to believe the story, because for such "stunts" is here (and probably anywhere in the world) I have to pay hard. Lao Liu then telephoned to me, the conversation turned to the Lao Tang, said to Lao Tang really is nieobliczany vodka, and it has never been punished, that he went to HK and that has so much money due to the extra work for the secret services of some specific ...

Photo - Lao Tang, who would have thought that in the skin of a sheep sitting real wolf ...

we agreed to meet after the New Year, Lao Tang is said to be very fast, and more great moves, and from one of the masters of Cha Quan 查 拳 learned the specific steps that allow him to walk back to the enemy , as he spoke Lao Tang, against a high ideal person ... Lao Tang is lower than the 2ocm me, so I know to whom pil. Anyway, I myself, I was receiving the second kick (rice wine is to himself, as first introduced in a good mood, then suddenly it hits to the head), and even a little, and a big M with a big J would have to tow me home. Time was the highest bid farewell to the company, go to the subway and go back.