光芒甘栗 (guāngmáng gān lì)

Roasted chestnuts 光芒甘栗

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November 17th 2011
We’ve just spent the last half hour devouring a bag of roasted chestnuts which we got from a shop on the junction of Tiyuchang and north Jingua road. We didn’t actually know what we were buying to start with, we just saw this queue outside the shop so we thought we might as well join it. We’ve bought them before in National Week when we were killing time in Jinhua before our train to Guilin. ... read more

Asia » China » Hangzhou

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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