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The Giant Panda

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February 8th 2009
Well, we managed to find a Mexican - Peter's Tex Mex may be the only one in the whole of Chengdu, but it was certainly very nice (for pudding we had chocolate chip, coconut and walnut pie - need I say more?). The only downside to it was that I think I ended up drinking the water that we were meant to wash our hands in. I thought it could have been my 7-Up, because it was lemony, but it was also wa ... read more

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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