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So if I want to eat all the Sichuan food how much would I regret going to Chengdu for three weeks August 4th to 24th?
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Apr 21, 2014 05:32
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Eifert Posting posted:So if I want to eat all the Sichuan food how much would I regret going to Chengdu for three weeks August 4th to 24th? Somewhere between a lot and not at all real talk: You can never regret Sichuan food, go for it!
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Apr 21, 2014 05:37
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Eifert Posting posted:So if I want to eat all the Sichuan food how much would I regret going to Chengdu for three weeks August 4th to 24th? You wouldn't. If you're here for that long, though, I'd suggest getting out and seeing the surrounding area. Sichuan has a lot of cool stuff, but most of it is just too far away for day trips. 3 weeks gives you enough time to get out and eat everything.
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Apr 21, 2014 05:55
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Like my experience talking to China ex-pats leads me to believe that all Chinese cities are hellish deathscapes. Chengdu is not Bejing level polluted and crowded, right? 
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Apr 21, 2014 06:10
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Eifert Posting posted:Like my experience talking to China ex-pats leads me to believe that all Chinese cities are hellish deathscapes. Chengdu is not Bejing level polluted and crowded, right? Crowded, not anywhere close. Polluted, maybe? It's been really nice the past few weeks. No idea what August will be like. Overall Chengdu has the benefit of having being built up in the past 15 years with Chinese urban planners having learned a lot from the screwups of Beijing and other big cities. Traffic is low, public transport is really good, and it's a well designed city so it's easy to get around.
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Apr 21, 2014 06:28
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I think you may have just sold me on it. Anyone want to assist me in doing my typical "Swarm of locusts" travel routine when the time comes? I think unless something drastic happens I'll book in the next couple weeks. Buy stock in 担担面. Edit: I saw pandas in Taipei and was thoroughly unimpressed. Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Apr 21, 2014 |
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Apr 21, 2014 06:38
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Sichuan owns, three weeks there is a good amount of time.
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Apr 21, 2014 07:14
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Did you see the pandas? Did you see the pandas? Did you see the pandas? I have still not seen the pandas.
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Apr 21, 2014 08:19
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:Did you see the pandas? Did you see the pandas? Did you see the pandas? You're missing out, pandas own.
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Apr 21, 2014 08:22
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They're worth seeing once. The panda base is a quite nice little wooded hilly area. It would make a decent bamboo forest park if it didn't have pandas and paths everywhere for tourists. Also: baby pandas. The adult pandas are boring but the babies are adorably stupid. Last time I was there I saw one climb a tree and then get himself hanging upside down from his back legs looking not alarmed but just sort of befuddled as to how he had managed to get himself into this predicament.
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Apr 21, 2014 08:27
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I saw the pandas like a million times. One time is plenty. Never see them more than once. Except red pandas. They're the best.
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Apr 21, 2014 08:28
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Tom Smykowski posted:Except red pandas. They're the best. 
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Apr 21, 2014 09:55
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Arglebargle III posted:They're worth seeing once. The panda base is a quite nice little wooded hilly area. It would make a decent bamboo forest park if it didn't have pandas and paths everywhere for tourists. Also: baby pandas. The adult pandas are boring but the babies are adorably stupid. Last time I was there I saw one climb a tree and then get himself hanging upside down from his back legs looking not alarmed but just sort of befuddled as to how he had managed to get himself into this predicament. Oh man, now I'm imagining Chinese Winnie the Pooh.
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Apr 21, 2014 09:58
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VideoTapir posted:Oh man, now I'm imagining Chinese Winnie the Pooh. 
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Apr 21, 2014 10:03
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100英亩森林是中国的！
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Apr 21, 2014 10:10
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If you put this on a shirt that said "Oh Piglet, stop making GBS threads on the street" in Chinese, I would pay 30 bucks for it IRL
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Apr 21, 2014 10:40
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Eifert Posting posted:So if I want to eat all the Sichuan food how much would I regret going to Chengdu for three weeks August 4th to 24th? The trick with China is to set your expectations exceptionally low; expect that everything will be overly troublesome and disappointing.
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Apr 21, 2014 11:43
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Woodsy Owl posted:The trick with China is to set your expectations exceptionally low; expect that everything will be overly troublesome and disappointing. This is unironically good advice.
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Apr 21, 2014 12:56
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Woodsy Owl posted:The trick with China is to set your expectations exceptionally low; expect that everything will be overly troublesome and disappointing. This, but about literally everything in life.
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Apr 21, 2014 12:59
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Three weeks is way too long for Sichuan, it's pretty much just Chengdu and pandas unless you want to go to the Tibetan plateau. I would go to Yunnan too while you're at it cause it's the best province but it's gonna be hot as balls there in August so maybe not. oh there's also that big wooden buddha somewhere which is good for a day trip i guess Arakan fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Apr 21, 2014 |
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Apr 21, 2014 13:51
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The Tibetan plateau is like 30 miles west of Chengdu though. The mountains are not far at all.
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Apr 21, 2014 15:03
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You could also go Chongqing, eating hotpot, chicken feet, guang gai
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Apr 21, 2014 16:39
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A month in Sichuan is definitely not too long, and of course you'll be visiting mountains after a few days in Chengdu. You've got the giant buddha in Leshan but besides that and Dujiangyan and Emeishan you should be heading deep into the mountains of the north (Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong) and the west (Garze, Litang, Tagong, Daocheng, Yading, and others depending on where you want to end up (back in Chengdu, or Yunnan, Qinghai, Gansu, or if you're feeling especially adventurous/stupid, Tibet). My favorite architecture in China may be the Tibetan buildings around Xiangcheng, near the border with Yunnan. I forgot that Lugu Lake is also partly in Sichuan, if you want to take a faster and less Tibetan route into Yunnan.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:49
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As much potential as this has in a Gooby and Dolan kind of way, I was thinking more like this:
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Apr 21, 2014 16:58
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Woodsy Owl posted:The trick with China is to set your expectations exceptionally low; expect that everything will be overly troublesome and disappointing. How I survive life ^^^^^^
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Apr 22, 2014 02:11
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I'll echo that Sichuan is most definitely not just Chengdu. Chengdu is probably the most boring place in Sichuan, to be honest. You can go out west to places with much more active Tibetan communities than anywhere in Tibet, you can go north west to grasslands, you can go north to the mountains... or south to the other mountains. Sichuan probably has some of the best scenery in the world, and none of it is near Chengdu. You also have easy access to Qinghai, Yunnan and Gansu if you wanna really get our there; and with 3 weeks you definitely could.
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Apr 22, 2014 02:20
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Tupperwarez posted:100英亩森林是中国的！ I totally didn't see this until now and just lost a little coffee because of it. I really should make it my avatar.
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Apr 22, 2014 03:02
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goldboilermark posted:I totally didn't see this until now and just lost a little coffee because of it. I really should make it my avatar. Yeah I thought that was pretty inspired too. We'd also need something like "Christopher Robin is a running dog of the capitalists!" How would you transliterate Christopher Robin? Google Translate tells me 克里斯朵夫罗宾.
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Apr 22, 2014 03:20
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blinkyzero posted:Christopher Robin 克里豆腐渣 肉饼
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Apr 22, 2014 04:05
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Bear in mind that "seeing things" is something I may or may not do while walking from one restaurant to another restaurant.
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Apr 22, 2014 04:46
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You gotta go to the different cities and towns in Sichuan to have their version of the food, though. So like restaurant to restaurant, town to town.
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Apr 22, 2014 04:55
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blinkyzero posted:Yeah I thought that was pretty inspired too. 克里斯托夫 罗宾
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Apr 22, 2014 05:02
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kwantingus posted:克里斯托夫 罗宾  Put that into some old Red Guard or Great Leap slogan somehow and I will have to Photoshop up some t-shirt templates with Winnie the Pooh, lol
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Apr 22, 2014 05:18
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 Not included: running dog Piglet
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Apr 22, 2014 08:17
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Tom Smykowski posted:
 This is a thing now.Although the rays from the little red book kinda look like the rising sun flag, I dunno how to feel about that.
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Apr 22, 2014 09:02
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中国は日本の領土である。
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Apr 22, 2014 09:11
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 Shots Fired! Something something Hakko ichiu.
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Apr 22, 2014 11:05
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Eifert Posting posted:Buy stock in 担担面 担担麺
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Apr 22, 2014 12:20
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Tupperwarez posted:
Instead of straight red rays can you try for the yellow and red aura / Jesus halo effect? I want to buy a mug and make a poster for my room
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Tom Smykowski posted:
10/10, would purchase on a variety of nicknacks. We should make a Chinagoons CafePress store or something and make t-shirts and sweatshirts and poo poo. The proceeds can go toward renewing TWM's account whenever he gets banned or Ceciltron's legal fund. What other iconic Western children's characters can we appropriate for the cause? I feel like Peter Pan as a Red Guard could work. If we stick with A. A. Milne, Mr. Toad is obviously a feudal rightist whom the people must crush beneath their iron-shod heels.
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