Gillick's World Explores China: Hunan, Guangdong and Guanxi | Page 11

For lunch one of the owners of our hotel in Lang Shan, the Hong Ji Hua Tian Hotel, invited us to a private banquet of sumptuous local cuisine. I gingerly picked out those searing red chilies with my chop sticks but a few snuck past the inspection and definitely livened up the dishes. The delicious meal featured rice tea, cucumber juice, daikon radish, funghi, jelly fish, curry chicken, chili duck with lemongrass and duck blood, pork blood tofu, duck with seaweed, shrimp egg custard, spicy eggplant, pancake and steamed rice. And we ate everything!