Cricket museum

A visit to the Cricket museum in Qibao sounded like a winner. Here's picture of one of the two rooms in the museum. This one had the lights switched on:

Here's part of the other room that wasn't lit up:

Here's some sort of capturing net for the crickets

I think this a tiny cricket arena where the little fellas do battle. Or play tennis. The labels on the exhibits were not in English, so I'm guessing.

This was by far the shittiest museum I have every visited. Including the one I made as a child

Qibao: Crap watertown

Qibao is a small watertown about 20 minutes subway ride from my hotel. There are two canals that cross one another, and a cricket museum.

Here's me with a Chinese lad. His parents made him speak English to me. He was 14 years old and embarrassed:

This bell is a holy relic that apparantly floated down the river. The villagers fished it out and put it in a tower. 

Here is the guard, guarding the bell. No on has tried to steal it in the last 400 years. Why stress?

Duck tongues and bullfrog for lunch

I wish they'd stop telling me what I had just eaten after I'd eaten it.

The sprinkling of sesame seeds really complimented the tonguey-ness of the dish.

Everything shouts at you here

This is the first ten seconds of entering a cash machine booth in China.

The sound is not distorted in the video. That's what it actually sounds like. They put a distort filter on absolutely everything here.

The traffic noise in the background is pretty spot on too. 

Please turn your sound up to 11 for an authentic experience.

Making belts

6:30 rolls around at work and loud banging starts a few cubes down. One of the riggers goes over to see what's occurring.

It's one of the modellers crouched down banging holes into a belt with a steel pipe and nail.

Marching children

This is the view I have every morning of a school playground. They march them all out, they raise the flag, and do exercises while a man shouts at them with a megaphone.

Dog Sex Doll

Went to a bar last night with Mike, John and Dom. There was a do sitting quietly in the window, gazing at the passers-by. Eventually, he came to check us out. Coffee, as he was called enjoyed being pet. Here he is sniffing John's chest.

Between petting he would try to hump us, much to the amusement of the waitresses. How they laughed. They then brought over an iPad and showed us a video of coffee and his sex doll. Yes, a dog sex doll is actually a thing:

http://www.hotdoll.fr/contenu.php?id_contenu=8&lang=2

The video was the first of about twelve videos showing the same white floppy doll being manically humped by little Coffee the dog. She seemed very proud of his technique and tenacity.

Oh China!