Tuesday, January 12, 2010


Sung said there were no street foods in China.  Sung was wrong.  There's street food everywhere, and I'm in bliss.


I bought this from the two guys pictured above.  It's probably my favorite street food so far, costing me only 1 kuai (about 15 cents).  It's nice and crispy on the outside, and has a mild sweet sugary filling on the inside.  It's pretty much teh win on a cold winter's walk.


After dinner, I leave the house and start walking in a random direction.  I take random forks and see where it takes me.  If it looks weird or crazy, I take it.  One night I found this awesome alley.  It was basically rows and rows of various shops all squeezed in between apartments.  I was able to score me some sweet dumplings and pastries.  Later on I found out that these alleys are pretty much the norm in residential areas.







On Friday, we went out to Huang He Lo, or Yellow Crane Tower.  Apparently some poet dude wrote about it and that made it popular and they tore it down and rebuilt it over and over until what you see today.  It was cool.








Here are kids from the go school that we go to on weekends.  They are like 7-9 and are really good.  This one kid got hit on his hand with a ruler for making a crappy move.  The teachers here are serious about go.




Oh hai.  This is me taking white against this kid.  He slaughtered me.  Upon reviewing the game with Yan Laoshi, I made a losing move in my 5th move.  I didn't defend a weak group, so he attacked it mercilessly, and while doing so made a huge moyo.  I tried invading it, ended up creating another weak group inside his influence, and he attacked it and managed to kill it.  Game over.

3 comments:

Scott Smith said...

Dang awesome yo! Pics == go trip blog++

Unknown said...

you must have heard/remembered wrong. there's street food everywhere in china.

who are the other 2 people in the pic in front of the tower? is one of them your teacher? they look normal. i was expecting him to be old and awesome like in the kung fu movies. something like this... minus the clawing at your face. http://www.rarekungfumovies.com/new/dec06/InvincibleArmour2.jpg

that kid is awesome. 3 moves in and he has a smirk on his face like i'm gonna kick his ass.

bsd said...

oops sorry sung!

yan laoshi is in the middle, and the guy on the left is Card. He's from thailand and he's studying go so that he can start a go school back in thailand.