Saturday, so it’s time to walk and walk and walk. It’s just as well we didn’t really do anything yesterday except hang around doing bits and bobs and recovering from Thursday.
We all really liked the look and feel of Chinatown so we decided to go for a wander around there. It is a really fascinating place, full of interesting people.
The place is packed, packed full of shoppers and packed full of shops. There are people selling things everywhere, on the pavement, on the ground floor, down steep stairs in basements.
Of course since we were with Maria the first thing we had to buy was shoes. AGAIN.
Maria reckons she saw some of the best mixes of shops ever. Nice classy and elegant things side by side with real Tat! And the colours!! Red and gold in particular! It can get pretty wearing being with Maria in colourful places, she seems to have a real thing about colour.
Anyway I don’t think I’m talking to her (or John for that matter), it’s not often I ask for anything but they were selling Chinese snaps, you know firework bangers you throw down on the ground and they go off with a bang. Anyway Maria wouldn’t let me have any, she said I was too young (huh! I saw children with them) and that I’d probably throw them off the balcony at people. As if I would!
There were a lot of food shops and stalls. It seemed to me if it was animal or vegetable, they would sell it to eat, either still squirming or dried. (And if it was mineral they would try to grind it up and sprinkle it on top of your food.)
We decided we’d buy tonights tea from Chinatown, so we had a fascinating wander through one of the supermarkets, of course as well as food, Maria had to buy bowls and chopsticks (I look forward to learning to use them, Maria says she’ll teach me, I hope she knows how). Finally we got a barbecued duck. The man at the counter chopped it up for us. He had an enourmous cleaver and wielded it pretty efficiently. I was glad to see he chopped off the head and didn’t give it to us.
We then bought some veg. from a street stall for a stir fry. My goodness their beans grow long!!