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(posting from the restaurant’s WeChat page)

Variations of this concept have been in about half the hotels. Very nice!

Buckwheat noodles. Howie had introduced these to me a couple years ago! Yummy!

This was a new restaurant that had just opened. The owner was excited to have a foreign guest!

In Sanmenxia

By the way, in spite of the cute green color, I think this high speed train is not electric. (the overwhelming majority of HS trains in China ARE electric)

Almost every hotel I stayed at in China on this trip was equipped with robots that are used to deliver things to rooms. The robots are frequently used by restaurant delivery couriers so that the hotel can avoid giving random people access to the guest area of the hotel. In this case it was a hotel employee who sent me some gifts. (Out of a combination of kindness, and to coax me to give a favorable review for the hotel online)

It’s considered a big thing because it was the first bridge over the Yellow river in this area. It’s officially called the Zhongshan bridge after the Chinese name for Sun Yat Sen