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My new favorite street signs:\u00a0 a sign says ‘0 meters.’\u00a0 Then 50 meters later another sign says ’50 meters.’\u00a0 50 more meters and it’s ‘100 meters.’\u00a0 I guess the idea is that since you’re just driving you may as well learn the metric system while you’re out here.<\/p>\n

We’re back in Hefei killing time until our train leaves at midnight.\u00a0 We just ate a silly 12-dish meal with some strangers… a good way to kill time.\u00a0 The longer I’m here the less I hesitate before breaking the American rule against eating cute things.\u00a0 Loaches, turtle and now, pigeon.<\/p>\n

After the meal, the waitstaff and cook performed a wholly unironic synchronized dance number in our private dining room.\u00a0 The other Chinese folks at the table looked just as surprised as I was.<\/p>\n

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My new favorite street signs:\u00a0 a sign says ‘0 meters.’\u00a0 Then 50 meters later another sign says ’50 meters.’\u00a0 50 more meters and it’s ‘100 meters.’\u00a0 I guess the idea is that since you’re just driving you may as well … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}