You are not in Kansas anymore Day 6

Su'ao (Part II) - Yi-Long's family runs a small restaurant, and the moment I arrived at his place, his mom did what every mom would do when they sees me - they FEED me! I guess I may have appear a bit too skinny for their liking! :) She fed me fried noodles, home-grown corn, fish soup, fish, fried tofu, fried pork lark, and one of my favourite - dumpling! It has been a long time since I ate homemade dumpling! It is usually only available during the Dragon Boat Festival, and it consists of different ingredients in glutinous rice, wrapped in bamboo leaves, and steam for a long time. In between all these eating, we also visited another shop which sells really good wanton noodle soup in this area.

Cold spring - Su'ao is famous for its cold spring. As it's name suggest, it is a spring that is cold, as opposed to a hot spring. It still has all the minerals, and CO2 bubbling out from the ground, but it is  22degC! However, I feel that it is way colder ..probably around 19degC. There are only 2 cold springs in the world - one in Sicily, Italy and the other is here! It is supposed to be good for your skin etc. Rumour (from Yi-Long) is that it feels really good on a hot summer day, but unfortunately that day when we visited the place, it was a pretty cold, cloudy day. The place we visited was free for locals, so I let Yi-Long do all the talking, and I just kept my mouth shut and pretend I am a local Su'ao resident :) ... There is a separate men and women spring, and everyone is naked...thus I was not able to take any pictures of the interior. However, I don't think you miss anything much - it was just a pool of water, with occasional bubbles of CO2 escaping from underground, and lots of naked men around :)

Arts - After the cold spring session, we headed to the National Center for Traditional Arts. I think Hannah would love this place. It was huge, with an old street scene, some performances, traditional arts exhibitions (which I wasn't allow to take any pictures) and even an old, traditional brick house. I have always love those traditional brick houses, and it was really fascinating to see one in real life. The Center had dismantled the old house from somewhere else, and put it back at this location pieces by pieces. It is cool to know that the whole house was build without any nails, but put together using "timber frames" method.