Food and stuff (Courtney)

First, a big Happy Birthday and Happy Father's Day (and Easter and Christmas!) to my dad for Monday! We hope you have a great day and will be home soon to celebrate xxxxx

Now below, we have some random images of food and stuff from the glorious land of red.

China has a great new scheme of paying for plastic bags (why has this been so difficult to put into place in Australia?) As of the start of July, there was seemingly no more free plastic bags. Sadly, there is no incentive to not buy a plastic bag, as they cost about 2 cents generally. The "green" bag does seem to be catching on though, which I think is great. I actually saw an elderly man with a safeway bag recently?? Where did he get that? What I don't get though, is the prolification of plastic bags on odd items. For example, you go to the supermarket or a clothing store and you have to pay for a bag. Yet, if you go to a bakery or a fast food outlet, it seems they are doing their bit to make up for the other places. Everything comes in a plastic bag, as you can see above, even take away drinks come in plastic bags! We went to the movies ages ago, and they put our cardboard box of popcorn in a bag! We recently bought 4 donuts from a bakery. There were 5 bags in total! Where is the logic in this?

Above is some sort of bakery item. China is literally infested with bakeries, there are, without even thinking about actual numbers, at least 8 within a 10 minute walk the school. What amazes us though, is that for all of the products in the bakery, about 95% of them taste the same. We do however have these "green" cakes that we particularly like. The above is not one of them. We saw this green monstrosity in a new bakery and thought we would give it a go. Well, mass disappointment ensued once we had cut it in half only to discover the outer layer was pretty much rubber and it was full of beans. Beans have no place in a cake.

Above is some throat medicine we have used whilst in China. This stuff rocks, it's this thick syrup for your throat. What I love is the list of ingredients, it could not have a more unique list of ingredients.

And lastly, a giant grasshopper we found on the stairs outside our apartment. This guy was the size of a hand. Tell me he wouldn't look good on a stick being bbq-ed!