Strolling Through Lao Chongqing

(underground world of farms)

Walking through old (lao) Chongqing helps you to imagine what it was like when it was the wartime capital during WWII. We took a long hike/stroll (lots of steep stairs) from the Cai Yuan Ba (i.e. Coral Park) up to Pi Pa Shan Gong Yuan , then down to the People's Court and the 3 Gorges Museum. It was a bright breezy and sunny day in Chongqing. Nothing like it. Yesterday was much the same, and we had a two hour adventure riding our bikes from Chongqing Tiandi towards Jiefangbei, under the highway where there is a whole world of people living (the ones who are building this city!), with farms, chickens, ducks, and more.

(abandoned boat, now a makeshift home)

(beautiful fresh bamboo shoots in a vegetable market by the highway)

(lady selling dried Chinese Medicine herbs)

(street side old school dentistry)

(bai jiu - fermented rice wine - alcohol store)

(old school cupping using bamboo cups for lower back pain, smoking a cigarette while doing it)

Sichuan Style Pickles

New pickling device for Sichuan pao cai. Pickles just got a whole lot more interesting!

The pickling characters. The green one is qing cai tou (green head vegetable). Jiao Tou (the white scallion looking one in the yellow strainer). Fresh chiles, ginger ...