Day 17 - Busy Day

HNI was nice enough to provide unlimited personal use of the new company car. I am looking forward to my next trip when I am going to take this baby downtown. I’m sure I will be turning some heads. How do you say "Jalopy" in Mandarin?

For lunch, Dave wanted to take our guests to a traditional Chinese restaurant and eat "real Chinese". This was my third trip to this particular restaurant, so I knew what was coming. This time, we decided to forgo the fried water beetles (think BIG cockroach), which we enjoyed on my first visit. We did have some interesting items though. As you can see in the pic above, I have a duck head on my plate and in my chopsticks is its brain.



I ate it, baby.

Of course, after I ate it I began to wonder if there was such a thing as Mad Duck Disease (like Mad Cow). Towards the end of the meal, we were served Pig’s Knuckle Soup. As you can see below, the first thing we do is take a straw and suck the marrow out of the bone (it tastes kinda’ like duck brain). Everyone really enjoyed this, especially Dave.




After a hard day’s work, we decided to treat our guests to something special. Dave heard about my massage experience, so he forced me to take the group there. This time, I decided to not enjoy it. Everyone had a good time, except for me. As you can see from the pic, when the masseuses were finished, no one wanted to leave. We sat there until they threatened to call the police (just kidding kids).