Old Time China

Kinsey’s Guide to Better Living:  Chapter Three: When renting a bike, make sure it has brakes BEFORE you ride away!!!

Pingyao is a rarity now a days.  It’s a sweet little slice of old time China still in action!!!  Complete with a Confucius Temple and many towers dotted around the city walls, which have survived since the Ming Dynasty (214 B.C.).  Watch out when strolling the narrow, winding streets because you might be run over by one of the hundreds of bikes!!!!

Not only do you have to watch out for the bikes but you also might have to dodge a lugey or two.  FYI:  the Chinese love to spit!!  In one day you can at LEAST hear about 20 people spitting up their phlegm!!  Fun Fact:  When the Beijing Olympics were taking place Chinaheld social classes to teach all the citizens not to go around spitting all day!!!  From what we have seen we think most of them must have failed, with a Big F!!!!

Three nights out of the four that we stayed in Pingyao we dined on Kung Pao Chicken!!!  As we were chopsticking this tasty dish into our bellies we were asked by two Chinese people if they could film us for CCTV aka China’s main t.v. station!!!  These people love us here!!  We have no idea why they wanted to film us stuffing our faces but they did!  Maybe to show how funny it is to watch Westerners eat with chopsticks???  Who knows!!! Hahaha

Planning to hit up China??  Make sure that Pingyao is on your itinerary!!!