My new favorite street signs: a sign says ‘0 meters.’ Then 50 meters later another sign says ’50 meters.’ 50 more meters and it’s ‘100 meters.’ I guess the idea is that since you’re just driving you may as well learn the metric system while you’re out here.
We’re back in Hefei killing time until our train leaves at midnight. We just ate a silly 12-dish meal with some strangers… a good way to kill time. The longer I’m here the less I hesitate before breaking the American rule against eating cute things. Loaches, turtle and now, pigeon.
After the meal, the waitstaff and cook performed a wholly unironic synchronized dance number in our private dining room. The other Chinese folks at the table looked just as surprised as I was.
