Sunday, October 30, 2011

Penglai Pingua Pictures

Thanks to my dear friends Susie (one of the Chinese teachers) and Kathryn (one of the English teachers), here are some apple (pingua in Chinese) photos from Penglai (taken during our trip two weeks ago):




Don't you just want to bite into those wonderfully juicy apples and have the juice drip down your chin?  As you can see, some of the loveliest Fuji apples in the world are grown in China.  They were so delectable-looking that I wound up buying ten kilos of them!  Does anyone have any apple recipes that they would care to share?  ☺


We saw several trucks like this one carting large loads of apples.  There were also the more old-fashioned carts hooked up to bicycles.


I estimate that we saw more than twenty of these roadside stands selling the apples.
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