On 11/4/2012 3:18 AM, FG wrote:
> sounds delicious but wow, for the price i'd rather not eat Chinese food
> for a year and go to Antarctica instead (and i did!). i made my first
> ever trip to China shortly after reading her 'Sichuan Cookery'book
> (march 2006). 5 weeks long, half the price of the 'food tour', 2 of us
> who didn't speak a word of Chinese. we made 3 consecutive trips and
> still haven't even scratched the surface of this massive land.
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> read about it on her site he
> http://www.fuchsiadunlop.com/gastron...%81/#more-2204
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> and about the gastro tour:
> http://www.wildchina.com//china-imme...fuchsia-dunlop
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> modern China is easy for independent travellers. but you might come home
> in a box.... i survived endless harrowing death-trap bus rides in rural
> China.

I'd love to do the trip, but $6K is over the top, for me.