Blooming Xiao Nong called me at 8.58am to say she was coming over for breakfast. Oh, fair enough, but I was at Lin Hong's place so was glad I'd had the presence of mind to charge up the dian dong che last night as I made my way over to my place 15 minutes later. She arrived 10 minutes later and indeed we ate dumplings as you do. A bit later I got some sleep as hadn't had enough and it was catching up on me. At least this time I was in my own place.
But of course at 3pm A Wu called to go to eat lamb in the place I'd been to before, and I found it was only a couple of minutes walk from my place. Not that I had much to eat though. Apparently we were to go to have a meal with a load of blokes shortly afterwards as you do. It was another sausagefest but this time outdoors and had clearly started before 5pm. Huang Lei was there too at least. I managed some ganbeis and caima but felt something wrong in my tummy and as I wasn't too far from Lin Hong's place thought it better to go "home" to take a dump.
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| "Lunch" at the lamb place near my place with A Wu and daughter |
While this was a reasonable idea, I found myself lying down on the bed two and a half hours later so pinged Huang Lei to ask if he was still there but heard nothing so rode over to find that they were finishing. But fear not, he was there, and said we were to go to another place for drinks, and we ended up riding to Zhang Hua's bbq place where we met up with a load of his ex-colleagues who were all blokes. Someone had brought a bottle of brandy, but this was poured into a large jug together with two large bottles of red tea. Needless to say I stuck to the beer. It was quite a good laugh as I was wide awake after my nap, and of course it was good to catch up with Zhang Hua. Huang Lei was plastered though, so left a bit earlier than me, and I think I got back to Lin Hong's around 1am.
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| Mixing brandy with red tea as you do |
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