Day 8IGHTEEN - 21 March 2013

Today is eighteenth day in Wuhan. We had our normal IS lecture in the morning. The second part of Tuesday’s lecture. The lecturer talked about the Taoism and Buddhism, the two religions in China. In China, Taoism stands a number of populations where in Singapore only have a few Taoism. One of the Taoism monasteries is the Wudang Mountain that we went the last two week. Buddhism is common in Singapore and hence many of us understand more of it. It was another three hours of lecture. We went to have lunch in the school where we go to the canteen that is at the library. I again tried the noodles (热干面). After lunch, we had a short lecture by Dr Tan on the introduction of Molecular Biology. In the evening, we took a cab to the HuQuan night market (虎泉夜市). We went with Joel, Samuel, Gordon and WeiSeng without YanWen as her leg was swollen to go for shopping. All of us were first time there and went there to look around. The night market was very bright and full of shops selling various things like food, clothing and shoes! I went walking around with the guys to find food while the rest of the girl went shopping for their things! The first snack we bought is the dough. It was said that during the war times, a guy made this dough for the soldiers to eat where it is filling and gives the energy the soldiers they need. I bought the sweet one and it tasted like our Singapore Roti Prata with sugar.

The guys bought the meat one where there was a lot of pepper added to it. We continued walking and went to a shop to eat noodles again! The guys ordered beef noodles which they thought was not spicy! They had a hard time eating it as it was so spicy that they perspire very fast and their face turn red! They went to bought mineral water and sweet dough to neutralize the spicy taste in their mouth. After which we went to see around the market and we see this street that sells BBQ meat. It was nothing special until we see the cages with LIVE rabbit and LIVE chicken as well as some other animals! We were quite disgusted and surprised that in China, they really eat all types of meat!!

Time passes so fast that we had to take the cab back to our hostel as the curfew was 10pm. I was on the cab with Samuel and Gordon that it costs us 31.20 Yuan. We were shocked when the rest of their cab fares were over 50yuan! LUCKY US! The day ended where my friends show all the things they bought at the Night Market and rest after packing them.