Mary and Jane in Guilin hotel lobby
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Road to Baidadi road being worked on
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Mini wild sweet chestnuts being sold
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The village at the top by the road
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Mini sweet chestnut tree
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Is this lunch
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Baidaidi new house
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The old house has been extended and modernised as part of a tourist project
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Washing area
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Just look at that plumbing
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Views of their farming
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Guest room
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Looking across to other houses in the village
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Great views from the new house
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Everything looks so perfect
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Top floor roof area
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Cooking and preparing sweet chestnuts for us to eat
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Drying and storing sweet corn in the same room which is the old kitchen
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Living room
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Father and son preparing 2 chickens in the new kitchen
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Sitting waiting to be taught how to make oil tea
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Starting to prepare the oil tea
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First put in some lard
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Then cook rice in the oil
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Remove rice add more lard and a little rice cook over hot ashes to brown the rice
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Cook sweet corn
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Go on Graham stir the browning rice
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Farmers wife cleans the mushrooms
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Add water and mushrooms to browned rice
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Tea leaves will be added
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Large tea leaves
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Burn chillies in flames to create chilli sauce
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Cooked chillies
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Oil tea put in bowls and extra items rice sweet corn etc are added
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Finished Oil tea
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Is it nice Graham
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