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Friday, March 23, 2012

Zhaotong Yunnan

After one of our easier bus rides, we found a really nice hotel in Zhaotong, Yunnan that happened to be next to the only surviving parts of the old town; that is, a mosque, two chuches, the hardware and tea market, and a couple of old factories.

View from the bus window.
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This mosque - how about that neo-classical dome - and Islamic school are expanding.
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Another mosque faces a catholic church.
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We bought a tool to take out the "eyes" of a pineapple from this vendor. Can you guess which tool? And which tool is used to take hair off pig meat?
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Barbershop.
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Scale vendor.
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View of old factory complex or maybe a guild hall from our hotel window.
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5 comments:

  1. Crash Eddy24 March, 2012

    Coincidentally with your find of a pineapple eye removal tool, yesterday, I pared a pineapple. For our pineapple use, smoothies, I have forsaken complete eye removal. I just pare the outer shell as best I can leaving a small bit of eye.

    Here's a trivia tidbit for you: The fruit of a pineapple is arranged in two interlocking helices, eight in one direction, thirteen in the other, each being a Fibonacci number.

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  2. Anonymous27 March, 2012

    i would guess the green and red plastic tool for removing pineapple eyes. does it work well? seems to remove one at a time is slow. and the big tweezers on the bottom right corner for pig hair? interesting tidbit from Eddy. thanks. wqz

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  3. john29 March, 2012

    WQZ,
    You guessed the right two tools, but have the use backwards. LOL.
    -john

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  4. Anonymous29 March, 2012

    john,
    i've been waiting for your answer. this is too funny. now that you revealed it, and upon reexamination, i can envision the pineapple tool pushing forward through the eyes. but i still don't undersand how the pig hair tool works. guess you won't give us a demo with that. LOL

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  5. john05 April, 2012

    WQ, Turns out I misunderstood SL and the pig hair removal tools are the pile of shiny metal tweezer-like things below the pile of red and green things.
    -john

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