Furongzhen doesn't have any tofu

03.01.2014

So I got to Furongzhen in the late afternoon and explored what was there in a couple of hours. It was relatively the same feeling at Fenghuang except really run down and not as pretty. Probably because it was January and all the hibiscuses were dead.

I climbed to the top of the one hill in town and some kids followed me and tried to say something to me in Chinese.

This city was the scene of a famous movie called "Hibiscus Town" about a woman who is a capitalist and sells delicious tofu to the people who live there, defying the wishes of the communist leaders. All I wanted to do was eat some tofu in a bowl like in the movie, but I couldn't find any. I settled for tofu on a stick from a street vendor. Then, I found a cheap hotel on the way back to the bus station and stayed there for the night. Since nothing was really grabbing my attention here, I decided to take the bus in the morning back home.

Dead hibiscuses