Third day of our recent East Coast trip. We visited the southernmost parts of Yilan County, including Dong'ao and Nan'ao. Very special places, indeed! :)
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Travel in Taiwan magazine (2017-05-06)
By Rick Charette
Coastal Scenery – Dong’ao and Nan’ao
The inexpressibly impressive Su-Hua Highway twists and turns, often high above the sea etched into the cliffs, 118km between Su’ao and the coastal city of Hualien. On this trip we venture south to the town of Nan’ao. The highway, a delivery vehicle to magisterial scenery in places, began as a mere footpath hacked from the coastal mountainsides by China’s Qing Dynasty government between 1874 and 1876. From Nanfang’ao to Nan’ao, the terrain is defined by steep cliffs footed by wave-pounded rocky shores, indented periodically by bays, small fishing ports, and narrow arable alluvial flatlands.
The Dong’ao port, small and tranquil Fenniaolin Fishing Harbor, is reached from the coastal highway via a long cliff-base road beside a broad turquoise-hue bay and gravel beach decorated with a fantastic kaleidoscope of stones each an artwork in itself, each a painter’s canvas of marvel-inducing color variation in miniature. The coastal highway here, seen above, snakes along so high up that crested serpent eagles drift below rather than above it.
The harbor is on the north-side foot of nose-shaped Wushibi, the most prominent headland along the Su-Hua Highway, which projects far out into the sea. Clamber over the dike-wall on the harbor’s ocean-facing side to enjoy the thrilling seascape of wave-washed reefs and water-surrounded rock formations at the hidden-away “Secret Rocky Shore.”
In Nan’ao, the Chaoyang Trail starts by the roadside just before Chaoyang Fishing Harbor. Stretching 2.2km, it runs up and over 181m-high Guishan (“Turtle Mountain”). The steep first section is conquered in 10~15 minutes, delivering hikers to a hilltop lookout with a commanding overview of harbor, sea, Wushibi on the north, and a narrow arm of the fertile, farm-dotted Nan’ao alluvial plain. Keep an eye out for tree frogs trailside, and eagles overhead.
If you happen to understand Chinese, and happen to search online for good places for a Nan’ao meal, you’re sure to come across the effusive recommendations given the country-warmth Good Eats Café. On the main floor of a two-floor residence just off the coastal highway on the Chaoyang Harbor road, it’s run by a Taipei refugee whose plan to move here to run a small organic farm morphed into running the café to showcase healthy local produce. Meals, based on what she has just harvested and purchased at Chaoyang Harbor, include such Taiwanese rural-style treats as chicken soup with mustard greens and yam, Hakka-style “tofu” made with peanut and rice powder (no soybean), and pumpkin cake.
Good Eats Café (好糧食堂)
Tel: 0919-117-273
Add: No. 13-1, Nan’ao Rd., Su’ao Township, Yilan County
(宜蘭縣蘇澳鎮南澳路13-1號)
Website: okogreen.com.tw/blog/4326 (Chinese)
Chaoyang Fishing Harbor
This harbor, sleepy most of the day, is bracketed by high bluffs. Wushibi serves as the natural barrier on its north side. The waters beyond the harbor are the richest fishing grounds in Su’ao Township’s south area. The rocky shores here are also a favorite with shore fishermen.
Local buyers and tourists flock here daily at around 7am and 4pm, when boats arrive laden with catch from the deep open sea and especially the rich Kuroshio Current that rushes north off the east coast. After boats dock impressively large and high-value migratory catch is tossed up, and camera-toting tourists are mightily impressed with the seemingly chaotic yet highly disciplined public buying process, carried out rapidly with surprising quiet.
Finish your southeastern Yilan expedition with a windy walk along long, long Mystery Beach, just south of the Chaoyang harbor/trail area. Nature’s power is on glorious display here. Artists delight at the prodigious pile-up of driftwood specimens driven high up the beach by Taiwan’s typhoons, and the mighty coastal currents create tremendous roiling waters that bash the shore with thundering audio accompaniment.
Chaoyang Fishing Harbor 朝陽漁港
Chaoyang Trail 朝陽步道
Fenniaolin Fishing Harbor 粉鳥林漁港
Mystery Beach 神秘海灘
Su-Hua Highway 蘇花公路
Best Things To Do in Yilan City, Taiwan
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Jimi Square - Yilan Station
Luna Plaza
Memorial Hall of Founding of Yilan Administration
Agrioz
Yilan Dongmen night market
Brick Ark Museum
Yilan Museum of Literature
Happy Station
Yilan Railway Station Tourist Service Center
MaKau Ecological Park
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00:08 1. Grand Boss Hotel, Yilan
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Top 10 Hotels in Yilan - Taiwan
Yilan County (Mandarin Pīnyīn: Yílán Xiàn; Hokkien POJ: Gî-lân-koān; occasionally and formerly spelled I-lan[1]) is a county in northeastern Taiwan. Yilan is officially administered as a county of the Republic of China.
Since early ages, many people have traveled from far places to Yilan. Indigenous tribes that have settled in Yilan are Kavalan people and Atayal people.
The Kavalan people came by the sea and lived by the river at Yilan Plain since around 1,000 years ago. They mostly speak the Austronesian languages. Their settlements consisted of small villages along rivers with around 40-50 communities scattered around the area with a total population of approximately 10,000 people. The Atayal people came by crossing the Xiyuan Pass and settled in the mountain areas.
The Atayal people arrived in Yilan around 250 years ago and settled along the upper Dazhuoshui River. Later, the tribes crossed the Siyuan Pass to reach the valley upstream of the Zhuoshui River. These people are the current residents of Datong Township. Other parts of the Atayal people headed east to enter and settle along the Nan'ao North River and Heping North River. These groups are now settled in Nan-ao Township.
Around 200 years ago, at the end of the 18th century, the Han Chinese traversed the mountain range and settled in Yilan. Large populations began taming the wilderness, cultivating the fields and building irrigation channels. They used various means to seize lands from the Kavalans. Some Kavalans left their homes while some others migrated southwards to Hualien and Taitung coastlines and established settlements
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Taiwan Taitung - 4 days trip video summary #2
Short summary of 4 days travelling Taitung, driving place to place from the coast to the top of Taimali mountain.
Following the numbering, you will find a maps link to the locations.
Quick access to the locations :
1 Nan'ao -
2 Brunswick Avenue -
3 View of south of Hualien city -
4 Duoliang Station -
5 Road No.26 -
6 End of Road No.26 -
7 Taimali mountain green view -
8 Taimali mountain, somewhere -
9 Taimali mountain with the 2 boobies hills -
10 South of Hualien city -
11 Luye -
12 Somewhere on my way back...
13 Sansiantai Bridge -
14 Sansiantai, village nearby -
A quick visit of some of Taipei's tourist attractions:
00:15 Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall 中正紀念堂
00:40 Xiaoyoukeng Sulfur Pits 小油坑
02:20 Mt. Qixing 七星山
04:00 Jiufen 九份
04:30 Jinguashi Gold Museum 金瓜石黃金博物館
06:30 Nanya Rocks 南雅奇岩
07:30 Tamsui 淡水
08:00 Fort San Domingo 紅毛城
09:15 Fisherman's Wharf 漁人碼頭
10:30 Taipei 101 台北101
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Gold Museum (黃金博物館)
Add: No. 8, Jinguang Rd., Jinguashi, Ruifang District, New Taipei City
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Fort San Domingo (紅毛城)
Add: No. 1, Ln. 28, Zhongzheng Rd., Tamsui District, New Taipei City
(新北市淡水區中正路28巷1號)
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25 Things to do in Hong Kong Travel Guide
Join us as we visit Hong Kong in this travel guide exploring the best 25 things to do in Hong Kong in terms of top attractions, museums worth visiting and restaurants serving up tasty food.
Our travels in Hong Kong take us to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and Lantau Island seeking out green escapes, temples, gardens and monasteries. Some of the top highlights include nightlife in Lan Kwai Fong, a Symphony of Lights show, viewing Hong Kong from high atop Victoria Peak and eating copious amounts of Dim Sum.
From futuristic to traditional and from hectic to serene Hong Kong will surely leave a lifelong impression upon you as a visitor.
25 Things to do in Hong Kong City Guide for Foodies:
1) The Peak Tram funicular to Victoria Peak (山頂纜車) - 00:37
2) Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island for city views (太平山 - 扯旗山) - 00:45
3) Victoria Harbour sunset views (維多利亞港) - 01:24
4) A Symphony of Lights light and sound show in Hong Kong (幻彩詠香江) - 01:35
5) Nan Lian Garden in Diamond Hill, Kowloon, Hong Kong (南蓮園池) - 02:00
6) Chi Lin Nunnery Buddhist temple in Diamond Hill, Kowloon, Hong Kong (志蓮淨苑) - 02:45
7) Dim Sum in Hong Kong at Tim Ho Wan (點心 - 点心) (添好運) - 03:01
8) Noonday Gun fired every day at noon (午炮) - 06:07
9) Hong Kong Tramways double-decker tram ride in Hong Kong (香港電車) - 08:08
10) Cat Street Antiques Market (貓街) - 08:30
11) Shopping in Hong Kong along Causeway Bay (銅鑼灣) - 09:20
12) Free views of Hong Kong at the Central Plaza on 46th floor of the sky lobby (中環廣場) - 09:32
13) Central–Mid-Levels escalator and walkway system in Hong Kong (中環至半山自動扶梯) - 10:15
14) Man Mo Temple or Man Mo Miu (文武廟) - 10:36
15) Nightlife in Hong at Lan Kwai Fong (蘭桂坊) - 11:15
16) Ngong Ping 360 cable car on Lantau Island in Hong Kong (昂坪360) - 12:20
17) Po Lin Monastery on Ngong Ping Plateau (寶蓮禪寺) - 12:32
18) Tian Tan Buddha (Big Buddha) bronze statue (天壇大佛) - 12:35
19) Star Ferry passenger service (天星小輪) - 12:55
20) Hong Kong Museum of History in Tsim Sha Tsui (香港歷史博物館) - 13:34
21) Hong Kong Park and Aviary (香港公園) - 13:46
22) Kowloon Park in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong (九龍公園) - 14:48
23) High afternoon tea in Hong Kong at Lion Rock in the Royal Plaza Hotel - 14:58
24) Temple Street Night Market (庙街 - 廟街) - 18:44
25) Mass Transit Railway (MTR) subway system in Hong Kong (港鐵) - 19:09
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Our visit Hong Kong travel guide documentary covers some of the top attractions including a food guide (best restaurants and street food), top museums and Hong Kong at night and by day. We also cover off-the-beaten-path activities you won't find in a typical Hong Kong tourism brochure or Hong Kong city tour.
25 Things to do in Hong Kong Travel Guide Transcript:
Today we’re taking you on a tour of one of Asia’s most dynamic cities: Hong Kong (香港)! Yes, this is a city of modern skyscrapers and futuristic architecture, but if you scratch beneath the surface and spend a little time here, you’ll discover pockets of tranquility in the form of incense-filled temples and bonsai gardens, a delicious foodie scene that features budget friendly Michelin-stared restaurants, mountainous islands that are an easy day trip away, antique markets full of treasure, and a dazzling skyline you won’t soon forget. Without further ado, let us show you 25 things to do in Hong Kong.
And that’s a wrap for Hong Kong (香港). We hope that you enjoyed this travel guide and that it gave you a few ideas of things to do and places to visit on your own trip. We know we only covered a small fraction of everything Hong Kong (香港) has to offer, so if you have any other suggestions of things travellers should experience, feel free to share those in the comments below. Wishing you happy travels and until next time!
This is part of our Travel in Hong Kong video series showcasing Hong Kong food, Hong Kong culture and Hong Kong cuisine.
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Yilan - Taiwan / 宜蘭縣 - 中華民國
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On this trip, we went to the East Coast of Taiwan and saw a lot of ocean. :)
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Niushan 牛山
Qingshui Cliff 清水斷崖
Qixingtan 七星潭
Sanzhan River 三棧溪
Shitiping 石梯坪
Yuedong (Moon Cave) 月洞
Qixingtan Star Sea Bed & Breakfast (七星潭星海民宿)
Add: 12, Lane 79, Qixing St., Dahan Village, Xincheng Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣新城鄉大漢村七星街79巷12號)
Tel: 0932-307-912
Website: 7starocean.com
Go to Sea Café Homestay (來去海邊咖啡民宿)
Add: 1-2 Yongfeng Rd., Fengbin Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉豐濱村永豐路1-2號); near the 48km marker on Prov. Hwy 11
Tel: (03) 879-1898
Website: goto-sea.com.tw/ (Chinese)
Sawalian (莎娃綠岸)
Add: 2-1, Ward 4, Gangkou Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉港口村4鄰2-1號)
Tel: (03) 842-1224 / 0920-330-842
Website: makutaay.com/page4.php (Chinese)
Kavalan Cuisine Restaurant (噶瑪蘭風味餐廳)
Add: 42 Xinshe Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉新社村42號)
Tel: (03) 871-1339
Hailang Café (海浪 Café)
Add: 73-1 Lide, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉立德73-1號); near the 58km marker on Prov. Hwy 11
Tel: 0912-935-208
Website: facebook.com/tapalik
Lily Studio (百合工作室)
Add: 15 Guangfeng Rd., Fengbin Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉豐濱村光豐路15號)
Tel: (03) 879-1591
Paterongan (Xinshe) Banana Fiber Workshop (新社香蕉絲工坊)
Add: 42, Ward 2, Xiaohu, Xinshe Village, Fengbin Township, Hualien County (花蓮縣豐濱鄉新社村小湖2鄰42); near 43km marker of Prov. Hwy 11
Tel: (03) 871-1361
Website: pataronang.com (Chinese)
Travel in Taiwan (2015, 7/8)
By Rick Charette
Qixingtan is a landscaped area immediately north of Hualien City. The name means “Seven Star Lake,” but this is in fact a lovely arcing bay of crystalline blue-green Pacific waters, invariably made even more photo-friendly by local fishermen busy on their craft close inshore. The bay’s north end is the north terminus of a breezy seaside bike path stretching 21km to Nanbin Park on Hualien City’s south side. There are bike-rental stations near the bay’s north and south ends. Among the many other facilities are the Stone Sculpture Park, Star Watching Plaza, Sunrise Building (Qixingtan’s sunrises are renowned), children’s playground, and seaside botanical garden. At bikeway-side are signboards explaining the seaside ecology, many with English. Another key draw is the terrific camera-perfect view of distant Qingshui Cliff.
Shitiping. The name means “stone steps.” The dramatically terraced volcanic rock and raised-coral formations here form what looks like a staircase rising out to sea. The sea’s great erosive powers are in visually inspiring evidence here – all about are kettle holes and surging tide pools. The teeming marine life draws fishermen, shellfish collectors, and scuba divers. The distinctive ecology also features such oceanside-adapted plants as screw pine, cactus, and morning glory. There isn’t much shade, so bring water; there’s also ice cream, popsicles, and other cooling goodies available at the visitor center.
Starchasers (as in “movie stars”) will be especially thrilled to learn about the existence of Niushan, where legendary director Martin Scorcese, Irish actor Liam Neeson, and other big names recently did shooting for the movie Silence, scheduled for release in 2016. What you’ll find at the end of a steep, narrow, long-grass-brushed road that leads off the here inland-and-upland coastal highway is a long and dramatically fetching arc beach bracketed by mountains that drop into the sea. The only buildings here are right behind the isolated beach – those of the Niushan Huting, a combination restaurant/café/bar/homestay/campground complex (rainbowiscoming.com/huting; Chinese), owned by members of the Amis tribe, Taiwan’s largest, and beside these a couple of tourist-draw thatch-roof structures from the faux village built for Silence (the rest were being torn down the day we visited). “Niushan” means “cow mountain”; to find the side-road entrance, look for the highway-side “Niushan Huting” sign on a totem pole capped with a steer-head sculpture (26.6km mark).
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Three days in the northern part of Alishan, including Ruili and Laiji. Great scenery!
01:30 36 Bends 36彎
02:00 Taiping Village 太平
02:50 Bihu Tea Plantation 碧湖茶園
07:10 Zhukeng River Trail 竹坑溪步道
07:50 Longgong Waterfall 龍宮瀑布
10:40 & 13:40 A-Han's Homestay 阿漢的家民宿
14:10 Green Tunnel 綠色隧道
17:10 Swallows Cliff 燕子崖 & Bat Cave 蝙蝠洞
20:10 Yuntan Waterfall 雲潭瀑布
21:10 Ruitai Visitor Center 瑞太遊客中心
22:50 Lanhou Homestay 蘭后民宿
30:20 Laiji Buluo Chufang 來吉部落廚房
Chiayi 嘉義
Alishan 阿里山
Ruili 瑞里
Laiji 來吉
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A-Han's Homestay (阿漢的家民宿)
Add: No. 79, Ruili Village, Meishan Township, Chiayi County (嘉義縣梅山鄉瑞里村79號)
Tel: 0911-037-729
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Lanhou Homestay (蘭后民宿)
Add: No. 11, Neighborhood 1, Laiji Village, Alishan Township, Chiayi County (嘉義縣阿里山鄉來吉村一鄰11號)
Tel: (05) 266-1172, 0934-179-197
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Bihu Tea Plantation (碧湖茶園)
Add: No. 38-9, Bihu Village, Meishan Township, Chiayi County (嘉義縣梅山鄉碧湖村38之9號)
Tel: (05) 257-1569
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Laiji Buluo Chufang (來吉部落廚房)
Add: Sancha Rd., Laiji Village, Alishan Township, Chiayi County (嘉義縣阿里山鄉來吉村三叉路)
Tel: 0975-117-154, 0971-225-687
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Travel in Taiwan (2016, 3-4)
Alishan is renowned for high-quality high-mountain tea, and Bihushan Tourist Tea Garden is a photophile’s dream come true. The entire rounded mountain-head on which it is planted is sculpted with tight rows of Camellia sinensis, as neat as topiary, cut through with boardwalk trails. The sweeping panorama taken in from the trails or viewing platform before the open-front visitor center/restaurant is powerful. The waters of the rough river far below churn this way and that, on their short, impatient journey to the sea. Renowned Mt. Jade and Mt. Hehuan make cameos on clear days far off in the distance, as can a high slope-hugging arcade section of the gravity-defying Alishan Forest Railway. This tea-plantation mountaintop, often shrouded in cloud and mist, is a popular platform for watching Alishan’s celebrated sunrises, sunsets, and “sea of clouds” phenomenon – dense clouds roll into the abyss-like valleys like ocean tides, savored by tourists from eagle-eye vantage points.
The 3.3km Zhukeng Stream Trail has a trailhead at each end on Highway 162A, west of Ruifeng village. Formerly called the “Old Charcoal Way” – early residents used it to take charcoal off the mountain to trade – it passes over 12 bridges, each of different design. There are a number of cataracts, hikers’ grand prize the 120m-high Longgong (“Dragon Palace”) Waterfall, reached via a dead-end side trail about mid-way along the main trail. This is a “hanging valley waterfall,” and as it shoots out into space the waters do indeed seem to hang momentarily in mid-air before making their way to the bottom of the deep gorge here. Behind the lofty natural artwork is Water Curtain Cave, through which the side trail runs.
Next morning, we hit the trails right after breakfast – and stayed on them most of the day. First on our to-do list was the charming, long Green Tunnel, accessed via a short side road that begins right at sleepy Ruili village. You’re immersed in a lush forest of tall bamboo, walking along what is in fact a narrow road, not a trail. Paved and gentle-graded, this spot is also popular with local folk, who come here for their daily constitutionals.
Then we launched ourselves on the challenging, visually thrilling 2km Youth Ridge Trail at the highway-side trailhead in Ruili village, across from Ruili Elementary School. The 1,000-meter-long Haohan (“Hero”) Slope has an average grade of 60 degrees – yes, 60.
The countless bat-roost holes in the Bat Cave were formed over millions of years by river erosion. The deep grooves in the mesmerizingly striated Swallow Cliff are also erosion-etched, the softer sandstone levels wearing away faster than the harder shale.
A few kilometers further west along highway 166 is the entrance to the steep 600-meter Yuntan Waterfall boardwalk path and, just before it, Yuantan Natural Eco Park. The two-tiered cascade is 26.3m high; the terrain features alternating thick sandstone strata sandwiching thin shale layers, twisted in a wild jumble of folds and faults.
Extreme Chinese Street Food - JACUZZI CHICKEN and Market Tour in Kunming! | Yunnan, China Day 4
This Day 4 of this 4-part video Chinese food tour of Yunnan. Watch it all here:
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Kunming, Yunnan, China - Kunming is the capital and largest city in Yunnan province China. So I was excited to explore the local market in Kunming and eat as much street food as possible!
Here are all the Chinese street food dishes we ate throughout the market:
Rice pudding - 5 RMB ($0.76) - This was slightly fermented, and sweet, like a rice alcohol pudding. It was pretty good, but quite sweet, so I couldn’t eat that much of it.
Dumpling - 1 RMB ($0.15) - I saw these dumplings sizzling and hissing and there was no way I could walk by without trying one. Stuffed inside were leek and egg. They were a little on the oily side, but delicious.
Whole duck - 20 RMB ($3.03) - Yunnan is famous for roast duck, and there’s a version that’s comparable even to Beijing style. Style I was excited to find a stall that at the market that specialize in Yunnanese roast duck. It was delicious and the owners were very friendly as well.
Pickled pears - 5 RMB ($0.76) - This was an interesting snack, and supposed to be very healthy and good for digestion.
Drink - 2 RMB ($0.30) - This drink was incredible sweet, but refreshing.
Tofu Noodles - 5.5 RMB ($0.83) - Another extremely popular Chinese street food snack at the market was tofu noodles - I’ve had tofu and noodles, but not really mixed before. It was a little plain and starchy, but from all the sauces, it was taty.
Rice balls - 5 RMB ($0.76) - We also tried sesame rice balls which were delicious.
Jacuzzi braised ½ chicken - 15 RMB ($2.27) - This was one of the highlights of the market for me, mainly because the owner was so friendly and his giant jacuzzi of boiling chickens was amazing to see! The chicken was a little bony, but flavorful.
Yellow soybean porridge - 3.5 RMB ($0.53) - As we were leaving the market, we stopped for one last bowl of soybean porridge to eat with youtiau, Chinese donuts. I wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did, but it was delicious. It was very warming and hearty.
Finally to complete this Chinese street food tour in Kunming, Jerry and I, along with his family ate Chinese Yunnanese bbq. It was tasty and a great way to end this amazing day of street food.
Special thanks to Zouba Tours ( for arranging everything in this video. I paid for this tour, but I think they did a great job, and I thoroughly enjoyed the food and the tour.
That completes Day 4 of this Chinese food tour of Yunnan. If you haven’t already, watch the full series here:
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