These are Chinese dates. Eat the skin too. Seed inside. Tasty.

Trip to the market. It's huge. One side all vegetables and some cooked food. Other side a wet market ie live fish and massive meat area. No photos of the meat. Not allowed.

Post dinner on hostel terrace. Mostly a noodle and beer day :)

One of our handy staples :) 3.5 yuan for two ahhh :)

More drunken duck this time ginger scallions garlic also some celery. The whole duck appears to be fried then boiled in beer and garlic and then heated up by stir frying with the scallions. Served with rice :) Much richer deeper and more complex flavour than the drucken duck with peppers. Shared it on the yulong river after about 3.5 hrs hard cycle. Amazing views of the karst landscape. Properly stunning. The ginger is sliced really thinly lengthways and the...