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Yunnan Province; China

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but it will take sometime to prepare since the cow need to get caught first’. ‘I don’t understand Chinese’ I answer in Dutch. It doesn’t really matter what language you communicate with. We both laugh as a good Chinese habit of solving language differences. Often the second reaction is that they will write the answer down on paper... in Chinese of course.

She makes a pitchers movement (throwing a ball forward with one hand starting at the shoulder) inviting me to have a look in the fridge. Just to be sure what we are getting I use the phrasebook again (to prevent dog meat or something like that). Dog meat is widely available at the local markets, you can see the just slaughtered dogs head next to the meat. From the bookshelf where all vegetables are displayed I choose a green spinach-like vegetable and a cabbage. ‘Bamifan?’ I ask, of course every meal comes with plain rice. For the rest I leave things up to the cook. We have never been disappointed, the cook will prepare three dishes now, one with pork and two with vegetables.

At the dentist
Our lunch today exists of a plate with beef and chillies, fried vegetables and a bowl of rice. While I eat the rice I feel I bite on something hard. Quickly I remove the stone from the rice in my mouth, that was a close call.

In the past I had brackets to reposition my teeth and after these brackets they glued a metal wire behind my four upper front teeth. All in all very expensive and so I am very careful. After five minutes I have another one of these irritating stones in my mouth. I feel that this time it damaged the glue of the wire and that it is loose. This means normally a fixture at the orthodontist for at least 80 dollar. Now, what do you do when you are in China. After a quick consult with Raymonds 'dentist online' it seems that any dentist should be able to glue the wire with two component glue... Okay, now this is China where ...