Ryan and I toured around areas of Guangzhou before he left.
Dongshan neighborhood
My friend Lily hosted a lunch at a local vegetarian restaurant that I am familiar with: shifunyuan vegetarian behind the Wuyangcun metro. We had fun lunching together with her son and my friend Siqin.
Siqin is in the center and Lily is on the right.
We ate wonderful food. A pumpkin dish.
Vegetarian fried rice.
Eggplant in a Thai sauce.
Sweet and sour tofu.
We then walked around the charming neighborhood a few blocks away. Very expensive to live with great schools, historic homes with architecture, and beautiful churches.
There was a history of silk and women’s role in garment industry art installation.
There were also commemorations to modern China as the holiday was this last week.
The canals on the way to the park.
We cut through the local park to get to the metro that could take us home. It was beautiful as well.
Taigucang
At night we met other friends for dinner in an older part of Guangzhou. There are not many high buildings despite having a large metro stop with a huge underground mall that spans several blocks.
Frog legs, bamboo with mushrooms, soicy green beans, spicy cabbage, and other meat dishes.
Afterwards we went to the wharf where there are large converted warehouses. This city amazes me with everything it has. It is crazy big.
Amy, Ryan, me, Amy, Siqin, Stephen, and Fiona.
We were pretty whipped and Ryan needed to fly the next day to go home. Always pretty emotional.
At the airport.
I tried to get a tattoo appointment whole he was here just do he could see the tattoo artist from last year that he had met. Through setting up the appointment he had a chance to meet with her and have some fun one night. I left him at the airport to go to the appointment. The result is this tattoo. This is the artist and the girl that Ryan was able to see again.
And a better view of the dragon tattoo. It is upside down of course.
