Chinese Kebabs In Dalian Coated With Hot Chilli Sauce
 The Dalian Temple Fair held in bright sunlight near the Exhibition Center, was very colorful, very crowded and very noisy. It was an almost ideal situation for the Chinese People to enjoy the celebrations of the Spring Festival, at the start of the "Year Of The Rabbit". The stalls on the wide pavement opposite the Dalian Exhibition Center were selling a wide variety of goods, including Chinese swords, children's toys and clothes, but most important of all, "FOOD !" in the form of various snacks, savory buns, bowls of noodles, tasty tidbits and kebabs, of which Zhang had four liberally coated with hot chilli sauce. No festival or market would be complete without these snack stalls, which are always a big attraction.
Grasshopper Models Made By Dalian Man at Temple Fair
 The Temple Fair held outside our hotel in Beijing, on the first day of the New Year, was similarly well serviced with food stalls selling snacks from other provinces, but they had not enjoyed the Dalian sunshine. As in Beijing, a man sitting on a low stool was cleverly weaving insect models out of banana leaves. By his nimble fingers the leaves, sometimes split into thread like thickness, were woven into almost lifelike grasshoppers, dragonflies and stick insects.
Grandmas Give Demonstration Of Tai Chi Exercises in Dalian
The grasshoppers were very popular with the children, but not as popular as the colorful balloons on sticks, which probably would not have survived as  long as the grasshoppers. All the activities of the Temple Fair were being held on the Dalian pavements, but on the square in front of the entrance to the Dalian Exhibition Center, more was in progress. When we got there, a large group of Beijing housewives, all dressed in red and holding yellow cloths, were giving a demonstration with parade ground precision, of their tai chi exercises. From what I could see of them I should imagine that quite a few would have been grandmas, but they were very supple and performed with an elegant style.
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| The start of these personal webpages and the Vietnam pictures, followed a chance meeting with a young man named Hoang in 1979. Hoang was one of the "Boat People" from Vietnam who arrived in the UK. In due course I was given the responsibility of teaching him some English. A few weeks later I met his family and friends, and subsequently their families and friends, and friends and families, of friends and families.... and so it was that the ideas for the personal webpages began. |
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| Browse through the many China pics on the personal webpages and enjoy again a meal of Peking Duck with pancakes at the Qian Men Restaurant in Beijing. See what happens to the floor of a Ming Dynasty Hall after Buddhist Monks have stamped their feet for hundreds of years, as shown in the China pics from the Shaolin temple on the personal webpages of Robert. |
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