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| Transit
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| The view from the bus's window of one of the many rivers we crossed.
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| B&B on Three Hill Island (Sanshan Island)
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| The B&B where we stayed this evening. At right is a rickshaw; I'm not
sure if it was the one that brought us here.
| The B&B's outdoor patio where we had lunch (taken after lunch -- you can
see the remains). This patio is to the left of the previous picture.
Di Yin plays with the owners' cat.
| Shrimp. They were small enough that one could (and was supposed to) bite
through the shell and eat it with the shrimp meat inside. One doesn't
eat the head, however.
| Eggs scrambled with white baby fish (those are the numerous white things
the size of gummy worms in the picture), white fish, and whole white
shrimp. Called "three white."
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| Chun cai soup. Chun cai is a smooth/slick green lake-weed. (It grows
in Lake Tai.)
| A green vegetable that's also a local specialty. (mi xian)
| Some kind of choy tossed with pasta.
| The owners' cat sticks out its tongue at me.
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| The cat looking up at something Di Yin is dangling.
| It attacks.
| Feeding the cat shrimp.
| The cat thinks it must kill the shrimp.
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| Three Hill Island (Sanshan Island)
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| The Sphinx Stone that's the destination of one of our hikes.
| The same picture, not zoomed in, from where we started the hike.
| A description of the Sphinx Stone.
| The steep way up. The husband family friend--despite his age--hiked
like a goat with boundless energy. His wife stayed by the rickshaw.
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| Looking down at Lake Tai.
| A snail.
| A cool bridge we had to cross on our hike.
| Elsewhere on Three Hill Island, a canal of lotus plants and a distant
bridge. One of the most stereotypically Chinese settings I've seen thus
far on the trip.
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| Di Yin waving on the bridge.
| Ditto.
| I want to caption this "which path should I choose? They look the same
to me." But, the literalist in me requires this caption: on another
bridge, the entry and exit lanes.
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| Dinner at B&B on Three Hill Island
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| A bony fish.
| Kong choy, like that I've eaten at Penang Restaurant. Lively because of
how it was flash-fried in oil.
| Chicken, made from the one we selected earlier in the day.
| Chicken soup made from the above chicken. It was so salty the family
friend wife went to yell at the cook. We added water and then drank it
in cups.
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| (Wild) greens. They actually tasted wild! :)
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We also had shrimp (not pictured) that were the same as lunch.
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