Yumi tang, walk, weights, and more food with Boss Zhou

With the help of a pill I managed to sleep till 6am, so still only four hours, but I had nothing planned so knew a siesta would be in the offing. So a bit later I went for a walk and managed getting on for 5km before deciding to realise breakfast for a change, as I remembered I'd not been to the sweetcorn soup place at all this year. The lady remembered me of course and was happy as I was the only customer there, but was happy to sit down to my lovely yumi tang and fried egg.

First visit to the yumi tang place for over a year

My favourite soup - yumi tang

5.68km, 7988 steps, 1h2m, 1 nice Chinese breakfast

I remembered to pick up some fabric conditioner at Guanmart and was home too early to consider anything as silly as a beer, so made an effort to get through a set of dumbbell exercises for the next 50 minutes or so until it was nearly 12.30pm. That sort of justified liquid refreshment but after a couple I realised I should really eat, and should find something more protein-rich than the usual jiaozi or xiaolongbao. So after a bit of a walk I found the place I'd got half a duck from in the summer, and found he conveniently had two duck legs and a portion of chicken breast. Perfect. He cut them up and heated them and it came to 30 kuai. Only 10 kuai more than my breakfast but a lot more than I could eat in one sitting so at least I'd have something left over for tonight if necessary.

But it wasn't necessary as after a good three hour siesta A Wu pinged me to ask where I was, which really meant to go to the chamber of commerce to eat with Boss Zhou. I unhurriedly had a shower and a beer and made my way over around 8pm to be fashionably late, and Boss Zhou slightly annoyingly put some of the most expensive cuts of duck in my bowl...the bits with the most skin and bones, and I politely thanked him and tried to tuck in. Needless to say the evening dissolved into more food and booze and presently we went to a KTV room.

Another fine meal at Boss Zhou's chamber of commerce

I didn't even ask which animals were pickled in this alcohol

I don't know who pays for these things...I guess A Wu and Boss Zhou do some sort of business together but it's not my business to know the details. But as happens, I ended up in another room, and maybe another...they start to blend into each other. Nong pinged to arrange to sing song too, but in the end she said there were too many people where I was, and anyway by now it was gone midnight. I realised despite my siesta I was tiring and the beer had finally got to me. So I left at 1.30am and once again was asleep shortly after 2am.