Our Chinese Takeaways - Peking Jim and Sassy Con's 20 Hot Facts about China: 1. The food is amazing. And amazingly spicy too. Yunnan and Sichuan provinces' food rocks (apart from anything made with yak butter and anything for sale at a "service station"). 2. The locals order a LOT of it. A couple (the girl being as tiny as a bird) will order a large tray of spicy chicken, two plates of additional "meats", a casserole bowl of soup, two types of green leafy veget...

Crazy China Caught on Camera - 您好/ Ni hao / Hello - For the last three weeks, we've been road-tripping via the less-trodden path from Kunming in South Yunnan (you'll remember this as TV-2Ladders) to Chengdu in West Sichuan (this is where baby pandas live), via Lijiang, Shangri-La, Kangding, Tagong and DanBa. The Chinese government decided to close parts of the Kham region to foreigners ("politics"), meaning we couldn't do our planned overland loop from Shan...