X'ian cultural evening and dumpling dinner

After our visit to the Terra Cotta Warriors, we headed back to our hotel, changed, and then headed off to a presentation of the chinese culture. We were treated to a dumpling dinner. The food and the entertainment were fantastic. We got special vegetarian dumplings while the servers kept the food coming. We were presented with over twenty dumplings each. Yes, I ate all of them. And then, came the soup. What a great meal. It was also Emily's birthday that night and our guide arranged for a birthday cake for her. She'll remember that birthday for a while.






Here is a sample of some of our dumplings. They were all specially shaped and all tasted great.



I don't know how many cooks were in the kitchen area, but they were feeding at least 150 people and we rarely were without food on the table to eat.



Annie, from Montreal, and a specially decorated dumpling. Can you guess what is in the dumpling?




And then there was soup. Note the hot sauce on the right. There was no food left on the tables this evening.



The introduction of the entertainment with the Emperor and his wife.




The backdrops and scenery were amazing and the dancing, singing, playing of instruments were of first quality. This was our second cultural evening, but you'll note that I didn't put any pictures of that one in Beijing--not that great.



Very colouful costumes and backdrops.


Our seats were right in the front so we had a good vantage point for all the pictures. Marilyn has a video of a lot of this, so we have to go to Australia to get a copy.




The grand finale with the soldiers parading around for the Emperor. We had visited all the places that were shown in the backdrops.
After X'ian, we were headed for Chongquing and our cruise down the Yangtze River. I'll post those pictures next.