今天到了同里 and was greeted by the same sights and sounds that were characteristic of suzhou. the 8 places of interests found in Tong Li are actually the same - houses of the officials / the rich. Each house would have a least 3 "halls", a pond, some pavilions that were used for playing chess or practice drawing etc etc etc. After a while, I was jus walking for the sake of walking and secretly hoping that we would skip some of the 8 places of interests.
Unfortunately, we visited ALL 8 of them and had lunch in between where we were served salted vegetables, fried egg and cold sour plum soup. Well, this spread was much better than the dinners we had for the past 2 nights where the dishes include deep-fried pig trotters, chilled pork belly (with an extra thick layer of fats), soup with coagulated duck blood and more pork belly. SY and I took a bite of the chilled pork belly. immdiately our eyes met in disgust and discretly spat it out. thereafter, the dish was off limits. However, we had to be polite and be respectful of our host. other than the chilled pork belly, i took the trotters, had a few pieces of the blood since we told the host "我们什么都吃" and SY was not inclined to touch any of those, lol.
the blood was not bad but i cant help thinking of how it was done.
our colleagues are enroute to suzhou now and we are currently waiting for their arrival so that we can go for dinner. I am famished!!!! We will have "edible" food at this dinner since we will be the ones ordering the spread. So no more oily and wierd cuisines for the time being.
Will be going on a 南巡 tour tmr and fall-in time is 7am!!! heard it takes 2 hours to reach the place.
selected pictures are posted in my albums on my facebook, so dun "whine" ya :P
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