(PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TITLE HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL THING
Worrying is not a good thing. And, as I sat down on the train, I had many things to worry about, such as; Am I on the express train? What will I do when I finish my book? Of what nationality is this guy next to me? Am I in the right seat? Why are the other seats my family are in at least an aisle away? Etc., etc., etc. Of course everybody knows that worrying speeds up the aging process and I could have lost half a month in that period of time. And as the train moved I attempted to calm down by reading my book. Guess what? It worked like it always does. The thing is that it only works if my book is open and I am reading it so if my book is finished, I am worrying again. Plus I finished my book extra fast because of my worrying. Now I have half an hour to worry. So I try to distract myself with my dad’s phone, but he says that he needs it for the trip to Guangzhou. And of course I end up with nothing to do, just like I do on all vehicles. But worrying makes time pass wonderfully quickly, and we ended on the metro on the way to Zhong Guo Da Jiu Dian, our hotel, faster than I would have ever expected. But with my karma, we don’t actually check in until 4:00, two hours after we got there. There was, of course, a restaurant apparently five minutes by taxi, and ten minutes walking, away. Good thing Guangzhou is in Guangdong because Guangdong really is Canton and Cantonese food is what you would call Chinese food. Let me introduce you to, DIM SUM!!! There are these wonderful things called baked barbecued pork rolls, let me describe them to you. They are wonderful things that taste like barbecued pork. They have some sesame oil and seeds on top, and a pastry like bread enveloping the pork. There are also things like dumplings, mango pudding, and taro root cakes. It is so good. Then there are the lunch and dinner things. These include an arrangement of fresh seafood (more on that later), nice and tender meat, and then there is, well, offal. The first things are good, and so is the latter stuff, if you don’t know what it is. Offal is not byproduct. It is what is left after an animal is butchered. After that there are terrapins (???? Why are these not turtles?????) and other such things. This whole experience is made way better if you know that the red snapper you just ordered came live just right outside the door from a nice and dirty tank. Even better, see it come out of the tank and flop around outside. Now if fishies scare you, or if you are deathly afraid of GIANT shrimp that look like small lobsters, do not go right outside and to the left. But then again, you don’t have to order seafood. There are several things like beef, pork and chicken to order. Too bad that they don’t have crab Rangoon though, since that is really, really good.
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