Rudy & Sue - Rice Terraces at Longsheng, China | 14 / 35
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Our group was herded into one of the restaurants; bamboo rice and bamboo chicken were recommended menu items. That's what we ordered. Soon two bamboo tubes were delivered to our table. They'd been hollowed out and stuffed, one with rice and one with chicken, and then steamed over a pot. The 'waitress' opened the split tubes for us and stood back to watch us go at it. Hmmmm. Chopsticks? The chicken dish had chicken bones, skin, head, innards, everything all cut up and cooked and lying there steaming in front of us. It looked like we'd be eating rice today. Sue took a couple of mouthfuls and spit out some stones. The next mouthful of rice included a few bamboo slivers – that was the last straw. We asked for our bill. All the restaurant people and the other (Chinese) members of our group as well as our tour leader seemed very concerned that we weren't enjoying our meal. We just wanted to get out of there.