Hi Tea Fans,
You will be displeased to know that there is only about 0.25% tea based material in this upcoming splurge. One day we will talk about tea. One day. This is just a bit of China travel.
We pick up the story in GulangYu, just off the coast of Xiamen. This will mostly be pictorial.
It was evening on Day 4. I grabbed a 'milk tea', made with condensed milk, wrote a letter then went to bed.
Waking early, i got a ferry across to Xiamen. And spent the day eating, pretty much. I booked a train, for sure. And did some walking, absolutely. But it was mostly eating. This is what i did see -
ON THE BOAT. LOOKS SPACE AGE DOESNT IT?!! Oh yes.
THIS DRINK WAS DELICIOUS. After much communicative jolly, i think i learned that it was made from - milk tea with peanuts, azuki beans, barley and a layer of molasses jelly in the bottom. I had biffed my thumb a few days earlier, hence the red bit.
Sticky rice parcels.
Just some orfentik kultcha.
Mahjong.
DUCK! Hohoho.
Sea Beasts.
Sea Beasts 2.
Erm.
Textbook.
Commiwommidooda.
I got back to GulangYu at about 4, and then walked a lot. This is what i did see -
A building.
Foliage.
Harbour
Wedding pix.
This is the same lady.
Carts
Carts + action.
A trio of boats.
Shovel.
Curve.
Linear boats, dramatic clouds.
Tiny person.
Aviary at back, coconuts at fore.
Holiday makers, making their holidays.
Just next to this beach, from a street vendor man, i ate a deep fried mussel potato pancake. It was the top eat of the trip so far. Oh my.
Then i went back to the hostel and met the new roommates. We didn't talk much because i was tired. And then they snored and i hated them. But then we woke up and talked for hours over the day 6 breakfast, and they were lovely. All my instincts were telling me to destroy them for their night noises. But they combatted my unjust hatred with niceness. God damn them. From Xinjiang province, they were on a honeymoon of sorts. Snoring their way around China.
Then i went to catch the train to Shanghai. The 11.43. There was a tea convention on the following day, see?
This is a photo of me with another beverage. I dont usually do this strange thing, but these 2 beverages were incredible and i wanted to remember them. This was my first experience with a matcha milkshake. It was so very very delicious.
This was the sexy train. I had been looking forward to this train ride for quite some time. Months and months. This is a D class high speed bullet train. Words cannot express my extreme delight in riding it.
Internals
The view generally looked like this -
It was a 1200km journey. It went by so very quickly.
And then we were in Shanghai, and it looked like this. Zoomy train heaven. Swoon.
See you soon for day 7 where there is a tea convention and some delicious infusions and then sogginess in the glow of a Shanghai eve. xxx
