Diner UNITE.
I prefer to dine with socialists...the communist headquarters were a bit drafty. *ceiling photo here*
We ate a delicious dish with eggplant soaked in soy sauce, another with pork and vegetables, and the famous beggar's soup *not too impressive*
We were served tea by a waiter carrying a tea pot with the longest...nose? spout! - about a foot and a half long - with the water streaming out another six inches past the end. I would have loved to see the waiter practicing his skill in the back of the restaurant, while watering the flowers I'd imagine.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
