We woke early in the morning, packed our stuff, had breakfast, said our goodbyes and got into a taxi that drove Tize, Julia, and me back to Taiyuan. It was a long and extremely uncomfortable ride, but after four hours or so, we were in our hotel. Tize wanted us to have some local food, so we walked around and surveyed restaurants for quite a while until we found one that Tize liked. Each of us got a bowl of noodles. Tize’s and Julia’s had goat internal organs in theirs. Mine had goat face meat. Achievement unlocked.
We went to see the most famous attraction of Taiyuan, the Jinci shrine. It’s known for its extremely old trees, some over a thousand years old.
When we were done, we finally had time to attend to one of Julia’s main goals of this trip: to see the Trump chicken. Since it’s the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar, one of the malls in Taiyuan put a big statue of a chicken in its plaza and gave it some of Trump’s prominent features. So we took a taxi to the mall and took a bunch of pictures. Some kid got really excited to see a foreigner in the middle of Taiyuan and asked to take a picture with me. We also took a picture with my phone. After all, why should he be the only one who gets a picture from this encounter?
A mall also seemed like an opportunity to finally get some coffee, but Starbucks was closed, so I settled for coffee at Burger King. It was terrible and yet everything I wanted at the moment. The mall also had the best indoor playground I’ve ever seen - it’s basically a giant ball pit, with slides and balls of all sizes, including ones a grown man can climb into.
Tize found a restaurant that served other kinds of local food, so we had several dishes with different kinds of noodles, and went to bed early - tomorrow we leave for Chengdu.
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