
Chinese Opera / Chengdu, China
by Both Ways
Staying in the old part of Chengdu (about 400 years old), gives you a real slice of history with an authentic experience – even our hotel felt like a museum. This meant hunting & gathering meals was also a purely authentic experience – with nothing in English. With stubbornly unhelpful staff and no picture book menus, we ventured into the streets for some curb stall food instead. We had an incredible array of choices from meaty rabbit skulls, to scorpions […]
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