Where to Spent your Next Tremendous Vacation!

Where to Spent your Next Tremendous Vacation!

by ULRICH KOEPF on MAY 13, 2020

 Where to Spent your Next Tremendous Vacation!

As everyone is anxious to get out of the house, the neighborhood, the state or even the country, after being confined for weeks in the apartment or house, there is going to be a run on travel and tour agencies all over the globe! If you are planning on leaving your country that probably won’t be possible until sometimes in June or July. Then you have to ask yourself, is it going to be safe in whatever country you are planning on vising? how about the flight itself, circulating re-cycled air on the plane! that tiny Loo cubicle? is the airline food going to be safe? what if there is another outbreak while you are abroad? getting stuck in another country or on a cruise ship?! All these questions lingering in the air!

How about spending your vacation in your own country? I am sure that you haven’t seen many parts of your own country yet, I lived abroad for many years and returned to my native country a few years ago, I cannot believe what I have missed during the time I grew up and lived in my country until I came back a few years ago, the beauty of this place, some of the most awesome spots in every corner of the country that I visited since  I am back are just unbelievable.

During the years I lived in North America, I traveled twice through 13 US states by car and I experienced some of the most incredible places in that country, every state has its own characteristics and identity, my favorite states are Utah with its red, clay-colored landscape and New Mexico with its rolling hills, lush green hillsides, that state has a lot to over, mountains, desert, lush green hills and forests, the history of the Native Americans, the Navajos and Apaches, and of course the unbelievable, and exciting Tex-Mex food! I fell in love with that state, it didn’t decide to retire in my native country I would have retired in New Mexico!

Now that I live in one of the most beautiful places in Europe, I am enjoying as many corners of this place as I can.

Think about planning your next tremendous vacation in your own country’s backyard, see what you have missed, you will be amazed by what you haven’t experienced yet!

Weird Restaurant Scene Booming in Kaifeng, China

Weird Restaurant Scene Booming in Kaifeng, China

by ULRICH KOEPF on MAY 4, 2020

Restaurant Scene Booming in Kaifeng

Kaifeng, China, 1147, offering sumptuous banquets. from the varied and the delicious cuisines of China’s different regions. Hundreds of small inns, teahouses, boodle shops, and dumpling houses also thrive night and day in this bustling cosmopolitan center. Bureaucrat and roving critic Meng Yuanlao reports that service standards are high in the best restaurants, with even the slightest slip in etiquette reported back to the restauranteur, who is obligated to dock the waiter’s salary- or even dismiss him for more severe breaches of etiquette. in his journals. the critic comments on all aspects of the Kaifeng restaurant scene.

For southern Chinese specialties, Meng Yuanlao recommends a walk down  Small Sweetwater Alley, while the famed night market is the place for a plate of tripe with blood pasta or chicken tongue soup.

An upcoming new trend is also monkey brains, some restaurants are offering this specialty for special guests.

Merchants and visiting officials have driven the gastronomy boom in Kaifeng in their eagerness to sample dishes perfected in earlier dynasties and in other regions. The Song Dynasty has its own sought-after delicacies, including fried purple crisp pork, sea cucumber shaped like lotus flowers, peony and swallow vegetables, hand-stretched noodles, and goose pears. Vegetables, herbs, and spices such as eggplant and spinach, nutmeg and saffron brought in by traders on the Silk Road bring new flavors and textures to many of the dishes.

Great attention is paid to cooking methods and the beautiful presentation of each dish.

As much as the restaurants flourish in Kaifeng’s bustling streets. Government officials have been known to sit for hours discussing the different brands of tea; the idle rich and those of an artistic temperament will pay a fortune for a perfectly glazed blue and white teacup.

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