Rizhao dumplings :)

It has been truly a dumpling week here!!!

We have a ladies` group here in Rizhao meeting & doing fun stuff together (like 7-8 of us) :)


...last week we went to Qingdao with Jenny & Zsofi and in our cool Old Church hostel in Qingdao Old town...


...there was a dumpling making party! :)


We made quite some dumplings!!! (actually, many more than on this pic ;)



..and tasted our creation afterwards!



And as we were enjoying our creation we decided we would share our new skill with our friends (particularly because unofficially we call our ladies` group "Rizhao dumplings" ;)...so 2 days ago we had a Chinese dumpling making party!



Yummy ;)

Back to Rizhao: Mooncake festival, spontaneous trip and slightly different Chinese art!

Rizhao beach by night
Low tide

Aliens never left..




"Mooncake fest" (Mid-Autumn festival) company party :)


Special dish & local delicacy: sea cucumber (our table didn`t dare to touch this culinary masterpiece ;)





Spontaneous trip to a city that is 2h bus ride away from Rizhao - Lian Yun Gang: wrote down the name of city, went to bus-station, bought tickets and went without any info on the city...arrived...on GPS found something that looked like nice mountain...took a taxi to mountain...


...wandered around...walked further...walked the streets...walked parks...found a hotel....slept...got a 6am wake up knock (more like continuous knocking with no intention to give up) on the door by police checking if all hotel customers had official receipts for the room payments (now that`s sick to do smth like that at 6am!!!)


...and in the morning took taxi and told..."to the beach" ...finished up on an island where one must pay 50 RMB to get to beach & seaside promenade...had a promenade...


Found cool abandoned (or most probably never used?!) villas


Found a groovy fishermen village..




And then returned to home sweet home - Rizhao :) Sometimes it`s really cool to have no plan and just go ;)





What would be the reason to drink wine at 10:00 AM on Saturday? ....well, in China - it`s exhibition opening (cause "naturally" opening an exhibition in the mooring is a sign of good luck!)

It was our first event like this in Rizhao and it took place in "1996" - club/restaurants/gallery!

All the important people.. (after speeches all of them got scissors and there was a group ribbon cut ;)




Art: 2 floors of gallery full of paintings featuring (mostly naked) women, birds, fish, and traditionally dressed men with swords...



...not your traditional Chinese art!






After the opening with the owner of "1996" - Max


After that we were invited for Exhibition opening lunch - traditional Chinese feast! So all in all it turned out to be 4 h event ;)