Shanghai Bob

Hunchun has over 300,000 people, but there are no Starbucks, McDonalds’, KFC’s or any other fast-food or convenience food chains.  All the signs are in Chinese, Korean, and Russian.  Everywhere we went people spoke to us in Russian.  At the karaoke place, the first song they put in was Korobeiniki, the song I think of as “Tetris music”.

There are lots of taxis in Hunchun, and they honk at foreigners.  I walked a little over two miles to a Russian cake shop, and I don’t think ten seconds went by without a cab honking at me.

The night we arrived, Li LiYan’s family made us a feast with fish, chicken, and pork, an animal from each of the realms.  For breakfast the next morning we had meat dumplings.  For dinner we had barbecue, like DIY kushiyaki.  The only non-meat dishes were kimchi, and what I found at the cake shop.

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 14th, 2009 at 8:10 am and is filed under china, travel.