STATUE AT THE EDGE OF WU JIN
ONE OF THE FOUR BEAUTIFUL LADIES OF CHINA.
STATUE AT THE EDGE OF WU JIN
ONE OF THE FOUR BEAUTIFUL LADIES OF CHINA.
LEE A. WOOD
We arrived in Wu Jin, though still, politically speaking, the city of Wuxi, about an hour's drive South of Wuxi, after dark, on Friday February 8, 2002, about 8 PM.
When we reached the Yang Guang Hotel we were shown to our rooms, five rooms for thirteen people, and then to a banquet room, on the second floor, for a most appetizing meal.
At the table were thirteen people and later we were joined by one of the passengers who had gotten off the bus in Wuxi.
It was a fantastic dinner made from locally grown and raised vegetables and meats. Pork, beef, shrimp, mushrooms, and lots of stuff I can't name.
Wu Jin, and area, is famous for its locally raised sea foods. Crab, prawn, fish, and most notoriously, shrimp. (Not actually sea food as they are raised in fresh water.)
Finally, after many dishes, as the rest of the party was ordering a second large tea kettle of wine, Lin excused us, as we were very tired.
After supper I returned to my room at the end of the hall. It was cold. I found a heating system and quickly turned it on, wishing it had been turned on while I was having supper.
I crawled into a long , but not wide, tub and luxuriated in hot water under the glow of four powerful heat lamps. I read until I looked like a prune and then crawled into bed, leaving the door unlocked for Jing Fu who remained in the dinning room.
The next morning, February 9, breakfast was served in the main dinning room.
The manager of the hotel told me that he had not slept all night. He had been worried because he had a white guest. He had heard stories of another hotel where the white guest had been robbed and killed.
It is a good thing he didn't know that I hadn't locked the door to my room.
After breakfast, the bus took us, South and West, through areas of small ponds where the freshwater sea food is grown, to a small town with a huge temple. (See my story: Lin Shan Temple.)
From the temple we returned, along the shore of a huge lake, its distant waters lost in fog. Along the edge of the lake, areas are fenced off for fish farming.
After lunch, at the Yang Guang Hotel, as we were leaving, the manager of the hotel presented me with a bag of small dried shrimp, one of the most famous exports of Wu Jin.
The bus took us back along the shore of the lake, on the road to Wuxi, through the colourful scenery we had missed, in the dark, the previous evening, to a tourist spot along the shore of the lake. See my story: Tai Hu Lake.
For reservations at the YANG GUANG HOTEL call 051-9615-8627 (Note: The only language spoken is Mandarin.)
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