MA MA HOO HOO

After this extremely long day, our bus pulled up to a --- drum roll please – Chinese restaurant for dinner. Since our group has 14 people, we have to sit at two separate tables. Understandably, the Floridians who came on the trip together always want to sit together so our table has turned out to always be us, Clay and Twila – the older couple from Palo Alto – and Marc and Cathy – the Jewish couple from Augora Hills. Obviously we’re the cool kids… and we all happen to be from California. GO BEARS. We’re very happy with the seating arrangements. Also, it is traditional in China for one person to order for the entire table. Luckily for us, there is a set menu and Ming, our tour guide, makes sure all the food arrives promptly and explains what everything is – which is key since we’d have no chance in hell of figuring it out otherwise. They eat weird things here… mostly pork and Lotus Flower. What the fuck is a lotus flower? Also, how is there so much pork to eat but no pigs anywhere. We haven’t seen one pig. But we’ve been served a hundred of them. Sketchball. Most of our meals have been really good…. Some have even been excellent… but a few have been what Ming told us Chinese people call “MA MA HOO HOO”. To be frank, this means “fair at best” but literally it means “Tiger Tiger Horse Horse”. Long story short: a man looked in the distance and saw what he thought was a tiger, another man looked at the same animal and thought it was a horse… they deflected their question of what they animal in the distance actually was to a wise man who said it was something between a horse and a tiger… therefore, MA MA HOO HOO. Get it?

Random announcement: During dinner Josh went to the bathroom and saw a cook leave without washing his hands. Thankfully, he decided to withhold this information from Lindsey for about a week…

After dinner we were given the option of attending a Kung Fu musical show called the Legend of Kung Fu. Obviously we were totally down. As we had learned in Thailand, it’s always better to go for the optional activity if possible. Luckily for us, the show was awesome. It had an English translation, so we could follow along and the acrobatics and Kung Fu elements of it were pretty stunning. Also, we got to sit in the third row. Not bad, China Spree, not bad. Haha.

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