For lunch,I joined the students and staff and had a simple but healthy meal,inhouse - veggies with eggs, green veggies, soup and keropok.
After that we get ready to go to see the much-talked about Fishing Cormorants at a remote part of the lake (I think this is also part of Erhai Lake)
I watched as the owner skillfully placed a ring round the neck of all the hunting birds that are trained to catch fish for him. The ring is in place to prevent the bird from swallowing the fish. Once the bird caught the fish, it will swim back to the owner and he will get the bird to throw the catch into a basin. To some, this is a cruel form of fishing but watching the relationship between the birds and the owner, I don't think he is being cruel.
That evening,we have a feast, compliment from Andrew who insist on playing host. Thanks to him,too, I get to tag along. *haha! lucky me!"
After dinner, a few of us went for a cup of tea. We tried the famous 3-course tea (San Dao Char) in Dali at the Cultural Centre. This is the traditional Bai's (a minority group) way of drinking tea. The 1st cup is bitter, the 2nd cup mixed with walnut, rushan and brown sugar is sweet and the 3rd cup mixed with wild pepper, slices of ginger and cinnamon powder had an recurring after-taste (symbolising reminisce). Intersting hor! There's a lot to learn from the Chinese. Ah! this is where i came from right?
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