Too many drinks.
Too many drinks.
Caramel, Cinnamon, Chai, Frothy-Milk. At ‘Jack Rabbits’ Cafe in Derby.
(The best drink of my life)
Drinking tea at Xuan Yuan Tang’s shop.
If you’ve seen my Vlogs from China then you probably know this story.
Austin and I stumbled into this pottery shop in an alleyway in a village called 小洲村东 (Small Chau Village) just outside of Gunagzhou. We were just looking around for a little bit, when Austin noticed the owner had a special tea area in a little corner of the shop. The owner then ushered us to sit down when he saw that we had noticed it.
We spent 2 and a half hours drinking tea with this man, Austin translated of course, but we talked about art, pottery, how he makes the sculptures (I make clay sculptures so i was very interested), Tea, the history of tea, culture. He then showed us these figures he had made.
The figures are from a small collection of famous Chinese fairytales. The Thief, The No-seeing Monk, The Ticklish Man, and the Old Man. (Not the actual names, but a rough sum up of the stories). The owner then proceeded to tell us the stories!
I have never been so moved in my life by the generosity of one man towards strangers. See Xuan Yuan Tang’s blog here. (Open in Google Chrome if you can’t read Simplified Chinese)
The Barn, Wraxall/ Nailsea (Near Bristol), UK
(My Local)
We’re working
TEQUILA SHOT-TIME
ORANGE YOU GLAD YOU STARTED DRINKING?
BEER
we’re filming a video/ timelapse of drinking and working in uni at the same time. Safe to say…going to get messy.
