Book Board Chat

Greetings from Penn's Woods,

I learned how to eat with chopsticks when I was in college. My brother who was in the Army taught me. Must be a skill that military people pick-up. Later I taught DH and we always ate with chopsticks when we used to do a lot of wok cooking back in the late '70s and early 80s'. Not a hard skill once you 'get it'. The key I found was making sure that you keep the one chopstick firm against your fingers and don't move that one, only the other. Maybe I'll dig out the old chopsticks and start using them again. I find that I eat a lot slower with them! LOL We have fancy ones and plain ones.

Jim(dainisjg) ~ Ellen @bookleaves has been to China several times in recent years. This summer she and her DH went to South Korea - not thrilled with the food!

In May she and her DH are planning on returning to China and doing a big trip to the Shaanxi province. Since China is huge she and her DH do it in sections. She would be an excellent resource person if you wanted to 'talk' to someone who has been to many parts of China. She may have already been to where you and your DW are planning on going and can give you some hints and tips.

For this trip, she has been is trying to decide if they will go thru Hong Kong or Beijing. If she decides on the latter, she it thinking of staying at a hotel that was built in a 500 yr. old courtyard building in a hutong.

Double Happiness Courtyard Hotel

http://www.doublehappinesscourtyard.com/

I put my vote in for Double Happiness!