07-12-2024, 03:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-12-2024, 03:06 AM by Drunk Monk.)
Shaolin has boba! I tried some - it wasn’t true boba. Watermelon juice with something like grass jelly cubes. It was refreshing but needed tea.
Had lunch at shaolin’s vegetarian restaurant, was was quite good - lotus roots, tofu noodles, a savory soup with some tasty protein chunks (gluten maybe), a sprouts dish, a weird veg that Gigi knew - some kind of small root stem. I’m eating too much, but it’s such an adventure in cuisine.
We had a private tea in the abbots chambers with the abbot. He gave us an interview and signed a new book he wrote on zen Shaolin archery.
It was wild to see the temple. They’ve improved it with more statues and details to the roofs and trims. Plus there’s a new medical area with traditional diagnosis and cures. All the old buildings are gone, replaced by trees and bamboo. It’s very green now.
Today was in the high 80s, 80%+ humidity
Then it was ours of committee meetings. You know how I love committees. So slow because some is translated. Some. Sometimes Chinese & English. Sometimes Chinese & chinglish. Sometimes Chinese, English, Spanish & French. Sometimes just Chinese. At one point I realized I was in a Chinese only meeting and I was the only person in the room who didn’t speak it. I was like a dog, listening to the tones, hoping someone might toss me a biscuit.
Had lunch at shaolin’s vegetarian restaurant, was was quite good - lotus roots, tofu noodles, a savory soup with some tasty protein chunks (gluten maybe), a sprouts dish, a weird veg that Gigi knew - some kind of small root stem. I’m eating too much, but it’s such an adventure in cuisine.
We had a private tea in the abbots chambers with the abbot. He gave us an interview and signed a new book he wrote on zen Shaolin archery.
It was wild to see the temple. They’ve improved it with more statues and details to the roofs and trims. Plus there’s a new medical area with traditional diagnosis and cures. All the old buildings are gone, replaced by trees and bamboo. It’s very green now.
Today was in the high 80s, 80%+ humidity
Then it was ours of committee meetings. You know how I love committees. So slow because some is translated. Some. Sometimes Chinese & English. Sometimes Chinese & chinglish. Sometimes Chinese, English, Spanish & French. Sometimes just Chinese. At one point I realized I was in a Chinese only meeting and I was the only person in the room who didn’t speak it. I was like a dog, listening to the tones, hoping someone might toss me a biscuit.
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