0 for 2

After a week of more sightseeing and hijinks, my second visitor departed yesterday, leaving me 0 for 2 at convincing people to try the funny drink. Alas.

Anyway, you might think that the fleeing of the guests means that I'll go back to updating the blog more frequently, but you'd be wrong. In fact, entries will probably get even sparser over the next month, as I head off on consecutive 2-week trips to Yunnan (province in Southern China) and Vietnam. I'm pretty excited about seeing all this new territory, but I'm not sure what sort of internet access I will have en route, so the entries may be few and far between. Apologies in advance, but check in now and then; you might get lucky!  (And in the meantime, I'll leave you with some, er, "interesting" food thoughts - below.)