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| Breakfast at B&B on Three Hill Island
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| This out-of-focus image (sorry!) is of a fried green onion pancake cut
into pieces. It was quite good; I liked the soft inside texture. I'm not
sure what kind of dough they used. (It's not the usual.)
| (Home-made) salty sweet (extra-fermented) tofu - nasty. Tasted rotten.
| Salty pickled bamboo shoots - good.
| Pickled turnips - okay.
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| Congee.
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| Three Hill Island
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| Using my 10x lens, one can see the silhouette of two fisher-people on
their boat.
| If you look closely at the center of this photo, you can see the shapes
of several fish, well camouflaged with scales the same shade as the
water.
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| Lunch at Deyue Lou in Suzhou
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| Deyue Lou, the upscale restaurant in Suzhou where we ate lunch.
| Tofu with crab.
| The menu description of the tofu with crab: xie4 fen3 dou4 fu3.
| Shrimp. Very clean-tasting, as is usual. (This is a typical dish in
Shanghai and vicinity.)
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| The menu description of the clean-tasting shrimp dish, literally clear
slippery shrimp: qing1 liu1 xia1 ren2.
| Eggplant with pork and garlic sauce. It was a bit too sweet.
| The straight-forward menu description of the eggplant: qie2 zi3.
| A local specialty: a soup with three white things: fish (a particular
kind), shrimp, and baby fish.
Also see our "three whites" scrambled eggs from
yesterday.
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| The menu description of the three white soup, literally tai lake three
white thick-soup: tai4 hu2 san1 bai2 geng1.
| Steamed hedgehog-shaped buns. Boring. The little filling there was was
dry diced meat, and it had little flavor anyway.
| The menu description of the previous item, literally hedgehog small bun.
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| Panmen (Pan Gate) Scenic Area, Suzhou
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| Ruiguang Pagoda and various other buildings in Panmen scenic area.
| | Covered walkways in Panmen scenic area.
| A long nearly-360-degree panoramic movie in Panmen scenic area,
encompassing the main lake, a multi-story building, Ruiguang Pagoda (the
tall tower), a few single-story buildings, gardens, ponds, and a zig-zag
bridge.
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| A Rorschach worn stone statue.
| A pretty bridge.
| Excellent. A river runs through lush greenery.
| A movie of our boat ride on the river. The person pushing the boat also
sang. I took this long recording mainly to record her singing. Sorry,
I didn't feel right filming her directly; thus, the visuals are simply
the sides of the river as we pass.
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| Another bridge, along with the back of our boat.
| Di Yin fed fish blueberry muffin crumbs. The couple behind her was the
family friends who planned this trip to Suzhou and Lake Tai.
| Fish.
| A movie of the fish feeding.
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| Ruiguang Pagoda through an opening. Too bad I couldn't get everything
to line up.
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At one point, we briefly caught the tail end of an opera that was being
performed in the park.
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