When we came back from viewing the sunset at Platform No. 3, it was already dark. After shower, my two friends and I were ready for dinner. You bet we were hungry after all that climb!
This was what we had for dinner.
Stewed home grown chicken.
Fried eggs
A big bowl of soup!
We did not have normal white rice but we ordered their special bamboo stick rice. This is actually glutinous rice cooked in bamboo sticks, somewhat similar to the lemang we have back home.
Sorry could not take very good photos as it was dark! We were dining outside the hotel at the front balcony and there was not much light.
I enjoyed the bamboo rice very much.
Did you notice that cup of white liquid in the photo above? That's the local glutinous rice wine which we tried earlier in the afternoon. For this dinner, we drank the wine to our satisfaction. It was sweet and refreshing, and felt so smooth on my throat. How I wished we could take a few bottles of this home made wine with us when we leave Longji!
As we were eating our dinner, we wondered how come there were no men in the hotel we were staying? So far we had only seen females. Where were all the males? Besides, what was funny was that everyone here seems to have the same surname! What did it all mean?
This soon became our topic of conversation for the night. Perhaps we were going to end up as victims that night. What victims? Jam jokingly advised us to lock our doors when we sleep at night just in case. Hahaha!!! Ok, crappy jokes. And if you don't get it, never mind : )
Now just for your information, I learnt that all the villagers here have one common surname which is Pan (潘). In fact, marriages were common among same surnames so long that they were not close relatives.
As for why there were hardly any men in the place we stayed, I have absolutely no answer to that!
Coming up in Part 5 : Sunrise at Jinkeng Rice Terraces
FIRST COMMENTER
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the bamboo rice looks pretty interesting! :D hmm i've never tried glutinous rice wine before..
no male guests? More girls for you to hit on, then! LOL
I like bamboo rice. :)
got drunk or not drinking the rice wine? :D
u can drink that lor mai jau in Sitiawan.. sort of of fermented coconut, toddy, they call it.. if i m not mistaken...
ok..why no males in the hotel? easy.. men ma.. they prefer to go cities where all the "lengluis" are.. :))
everything looks yummy especially when you're hungry. i enjoy bamboo rice too.
no men? reminds me of some movie i watched last time, its a women only kampung, and they had no men. they drank river water to get pregnant! heheh
Men are not allow to come out at night? Is it a female dominant village? hahah... interesting
the food look not bad at all huh?? and the rice is kind of special, guess they have some seasoning in it??
errr, i think the photos look ok, well litted and if you didn't mention i would thot it's indoor under bright light.. :D
so how did the rice wine taste like?? very strong i guess, normally the alcohol content is high..
hey, so did you managed to ask why there isn't any man working in the hotel??
maybe the men all work in the fields instead?? so don't worry, they won't crawl into your room~~ :D
Oh I had the rice wine before too when I was in Xi Tang Ancient Village. It was really nice and sweet! And cheap! LOL!
Ooh so did you guys get any 'visitors' from the all-female hotel that night? :P
All villagers are Pans? That's interesting.
There is a place in China famous for Taiji called Chenjiagou (陈家沟) whereby most people have the surname Chen (Tan/Chan).
Home grown chicken is healthier i suppose? hehe so nice la. :) and the bamboo rice very unique!
rice wine?? i only tried the local here rice wine. err dnt really like it actually. lol!
hahahaha! u guys in women village?? mwahahha!
the bamboo rice is rather unique. But I don't think I can eat them because I have poor digestive system.
The chicken dish looks delicious. Was it served like that, all spread out on the plate I mean?
What's the green in the egg dish? A bit too oily, eh? No?
What's in the rice? Ingredients, I mean. Reminds me of our dumplings.
I thought the 1st pic was field mice's meat~
I have a theory Foong. Maybe after the marriage, the females eat their husbands, very much like what the black widow do to its mate.
You had a nice there ah. So nice and it seems that you ate a lot of food.
seems like china always has similar dishes for tourists everywhere...
The rice wine actually looks like 100 Plus LOL I wonder why the place is devoid of men, have you tried asking the women about it? Also, did anything happen to you during the night?
The rice cooked in bamboo is definitely reminiscent of lemang!
monica, the rice wine is really nice! : )
lina, more girls for me to hit on? Haha!!
Surprisingly, I did not get drunk drinking the rice wine even though the alcohol content is as high as 40-50%!
reanaclaire, never tried before that alcoholic drink from Sitiawan! Is it nice?
LOL! So your reasoning on why the men were missing is because they all went to the cities? Maybe you are right! Haha!
life ramblings, indeed : )
xin, drink river water to get pregnant? What movie is that?!
michi, actually there were men in that village, only no men staying in the hotel we were staying : )
SK, yes the food were quite good! The wine tasted sweet and pleasant - I just felt like wanting to drink more and more of it! Very addictive!
Crawl into my room? Haha! No they don't crawl! They are humans. LOL!!
iamthewitch, Haha! No visitors came into my room that night : D
khengsiong, that's interesting!
caroline, home grown chicken is definitely healthier! Maybe your local rice wine not as nice as this rice wine? Actually there were men in the village, just didn't find any in our hotel : )
mNhL, oh you have poor digestive system? Perhaps you should eat more papaya to aid in digestion : )
all looked very delicious, esp the bamboo rice..taste like bak chang ar?
bamboo rice.. of coz u like lah.. panda like anything bamboo wat! :D
so most of them there are Pan? u also.. Pan Da Foong :D
yummy i love that Stewed home grown chicken.
and the fried eggs seems interesting aswell
Longji Rice Terrace is a fascinating place. I was wondering about the name of those dishes and what are their specialty. Hope you enjoyed them. Bye.