Self-Heating Box Lunch

My first encounter, and at RMB20 pretty much the budget lunch option around. There's some sort of heating pad which I presume encloses some kind of chemicals that react exothermically (I still remember my high school chemistry terms!) with the pack of clear liquid (water?) that comes with it. The rice dish then rests on top of the whole thing.

Jiuzhaigou (23-25 Jun 15)

June 24th 2015
Moving on from Chengdu, I made the northwesterly detour to Jiuzhaigou (Nine Villages Valley), a Chinese National Park Reserve and Unesco World Heritage site. It was yet another long bus ride, almost 11h, but thankfully in a surprisingly comfortable bus. What I had to contend with though was the unexpected increase in altitude en route (apparently we almost hit 3000m above sea level at one point) ... 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

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