The whole park was a treat and full of families dressed up and having picnics. We liked all but a few of the twenty or so sculptures, remarkable in these days of junk passing as art. This is very hard to describe. The fungus is crinkley and white and floats in a sweet soup. There was very little taste, but it did have texture.
Food is such an important part of a culture.
In China I enjoyed the rice, vegetables and meats, but had a hard time knowing what it was I was eating . . . It is probably a good thing that I didn t know and that we generally kept pretty close to the tourists areas. When I went to the markets I was slack-jawed at the creepies, crawlies, and slimies. The experience made me wonder what would lead someone from this part of the world to say Yuck. One object I thought was a lizard fan turned out to be not for fanning but a dried lizard for eating, madam and produced the special quality of longevity.