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Qianling Park monkey drinking from a bottle

Qianling park, a walk in the park!

Qianling park, Guiyang, China. A walk in the park Qianling Mountain Park is a large, mountain filled Wilderness Park filed with trees, temples, mountains, monkeys and a huge lake. It is also my local park and a place I often visit to walk around and enjoy the fresh air and peace that is seemingly impossible to find in an urban environment. Qianling Park is a great place in Guiyang to walk around, show visitors around, view wildlife, play sports and all round enjoy. The park is interestingly positioned, surrounded by mountains on one side and a packed city on the…

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Chinese BBQ Culture!

The local people love to spend a day or two per year having a BBQ. In Huaxi, the scenic district of my small city. Large groups of Chinese hire a venue and spend the day eating local foods and drinking beer. Bike riding, swimming in the lakes etc.

Stewed frog and shrimps. Sound juicy?

One of my Chinese friends came round and showed me how to make this rather peculiar dish. It is a white rice dish which then has 1 vegetable dish of tomatoes and sugar with 2 meat dishes of Frog and Shrimp. The frogs intestines are pulled out before being placed into a red hot wok with a little lard. After frying, green vegetable shoots are added along with peas. The shrimps are boiled  whole for around 5/ 10 minutes in a wok of boiling water. The rice is cooked in a small convenient rice cooker.  When this is prepared, a small bowl of La Jia (Chilli pepper) is added with onion shoots, soy and seafood sauce to make the dip. The dish tastes pretty good, however as expected, there is not a lot of meat on the frogs and so picking the meat from the small bones is tedious.