Photo Update: Kunming

Ernie loading up on Da Bai Tu (Big White Rabbit) candies in Kunming




Insects are tasty. Tempura-style silkworms and bees. Crunchy. In Yunnan Province there is a popular saying that Yunnan has "shi ba gui" (18 oddities). They're little rhymes including, "lao tai po pa shan bi hou zi qui" translating to, "old women climb mountains faster than monkeys" and "san ge chong zi yi won zai" translating to, "three insects fill one dinner plate" --relating to the fact that Yunnan's bugs are HUGE. The ones on this plate are tiny but I can attest to the hugeness of the cockroaches. Saw one outside on Hump Hostel's terrace--nasty little bugger.

(My pinyin is really bad. Oops.)