the dead snake venom rice wine monster

whiskey monster aint got nothing on the snake venom monster.....
Night 4 in yangszhou, a small town in China, touristy, backpacker friendly, beautiful scenery and nice people, this is vacation time, taking it easy, sleeping late and closing down monkey janes rooftop bar at night, getting to know some fellow travellers and some locals, in some circles i am the stalker for walking two ladies home at night to ensure their safety, unknowingly being stalky, ironically enough i now have a stalker as well, Mei, chases us down at night, getting kinda creepy......otherwise we have taken a small river trip, walked around the city, and basically taking it easy, we played songs to an eager crowd of travellers at monkey janes saturday night, one of those moments i'll never forget if only i could remember, we had a runin with the giant vat of fermented rice wine hosting the bodies of 3 venomous snakes, it is a rough brew to say the least, we played chris and i passing the guitar back and forth realising that we take it for granted in the states, these people were so eager to listen and so thankful for the experience and very complimentary, move over again blue flashing light, ......
the food here sucks,...for the first three days i may have had the total intake of one meal, the fired river fish i was enthusiastically ordered turned out to be fried whole minnows, the fried shrimp was whole fried sea monkey style, veggies and noodles was ill described as well for it was actually blue rotten egg and cabbage, i had tofu veggie clay pot that was the spiciest thing i've ever endured (twice),
overall love this town, we decided to go three places on this trip, here, beijing, and macoa/hong kong....we head out weds. for macao on an overnight sleeper bus,
3 weeks is only a cruel tease coming here, most people we meet are here for 3-6 months, a lesson relearned,