dinner on sat night 2/20

[ttwjr32]

On Saturday a few of us ad i do mean a few got together for dinner in GZ. In the early afternoon i met up with Peter from South Africa and we went to a coffee shop close to his hotel. We chatted there for a couple of hours and had coffee and a bagel sandwich.

When we left to go on the other side of GZ for dinner Peter realized his translator machine had fallen out of his jacket pocket. So we left the subway station and fortunately for him the shop had secured it behind the counter for him. As usual in China you can count on a business to secure anything you might have left behind, for your return to pick it up.

We then took the subway across town and chatted and waited for my wife to show up, and Frank and his lady. We all proceded to go into the
restuarant and had dinner. Actually they had to ask us to leave as we stayed there from about 6:30 until closing chatting about everything.All
the workers wanted to go home. We had quite a bit of food and the bill
came to 131 rmb total. Including tea for 5 people.

So we walked across the street and went to Mcdonalds for coffee as it was the only thing open at that time, and proceeded to chat for a while longer. Frank and his lady then walked to the hotel which was across the street pretty close and my wife and i got a taxi for Peter and my wife told the driver were to take him as his hotel was across town. She even mentioned to the driver the fair should be no higher than 15 rmb so that he didnt take the scenic route:icon_cheesygrin:.

Overall it was a pretty good time chatting and meeting up. To bad more people didnt show up but it didnt dampen the night at all with just the 5 of us. Peter was leaving for Guilin in the morning to meet his lady from
china love.

Ted

[Peter]

Great photos Ted.... Now I understand why Frank is in love :icon_biggrin:

[mustfocus]

Thanks for the report!  Hopefully we can have more of these!

[Rhonald]

Thanks for the report and the pictures. I guess it wasn't to difficult figuring out who were the gu?l?os :fi_lone_ranger:

[Scottish_Rob]

Nice pics mate...Glad you all had a good time

[shaun]

As Rob said.  Hopefully this kind of thing will catch on and will be better attended in the future.  I am glad that each of you were able to get together.

Shaun

[Voiceroveip]

God I'm fat on those ... :icon_cheesygrin: Must be my baby feeding me all the time. I'll post some too when the transfers are done.

Frank

[rockycoon]

Excellent pictures, what I can't figure out is how were you able to move after all that food....they must have had to wheel
you out on carts to Mcdonalds...:icon_cheesygrin:

[mustfocus]

Rocky,

Actually that doesn't look like that much food.  Remember something about chinese culture... If your guests leave hungry, you haven't done your job as host.  When I go out with guests, I make sure we order enough food for everyone.  If we have a little bit for take home, that's ok.  But never let your guests starve.

[rockycoon]

Mustfocus,  I'M IN LOVE ALREADY so much food, so much to eat, so little time...haha :icon_cheesygrin:  but notice that waiter
with the black sleave in the one picture, taking away the empty plate, ready to bring more...mmmm

[mustfocus]

You're lucky it's not a fine dining restaurant...10 course meal... THAT is fun...I think we'd have to wheel you guys out using a forklift. :icon_cheesygrin:

[Voiceroveip]

Haha I have a forklift :icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:

No it wasn't that much food but tasted very good, lots of dumplings though, right Ted? :angel:

[mustfocus]

That's ok.  We've got factories here that make them. :icon_cheesygrin:

[ttwjr32]

3 orders of dumplings :icon_cheesygrin: