Life in Chongqing, In Video

I’ve found a bunch of videos I forgot I made. I’m going to post a few today and tomorrow. They’re all with my camera, so not high quality. I need a Flip.

Here’s a recent video from a restaurant. It shows us ordering a local specialty dish made with scalding river rocks; they are added to a bucket with oil, and when the oil is boiling from the heat of the rocks, beef and veggies are added. I especially like this video because it gives you an idea of the noise level in Chinese restaurants, and it shows how diverse Chinese food is.

Here I am on a booze cruise last year on one of the rivers straddling Chongqing (this side is the Jiangliang, not the Yangtze). It gives a pretty good view of the Chongqing skyline. You can hear me in the background saying, “Does it have Anderson Cooper?”

Names withheld to protect the innocent, but here I am with a few friends last winter in Xi’An. We were in our hostel room and maybe had a little cabin fever, but it was freezing outside! The drink they’re talking about is baijiu, the traditional Chinese liquor made from rice that is basically rubbing alcohol as a drink. Someone added baijiu to one of the beer bottles and you see the results*….

The worst part is my laugh, I’m a little embarrassed by it. I sound like a dork. You can also hear me at the end saying, “I’m not taking that.” “Fuling special” refers to the town where Nicole lives; she was with me on the bed. My favorite line: “Honestly? If I didn’t know that that, that that was what that was?” Huh?

Oh, sorry it’s sideways, I thought I could rotate it, but I can’t. But still amusing!

*He says a cuss word here, so if that offends you, don’t watch.