Almost forgot, just one more thing to mention before I move on finally from China. That is the Guilin rice noodles we had every day for breakfast while we were in Yangshuo. The area is famous for them. All the locals also seem to eat the everyday for breakfast and I can totally understand why.

The noodles are special type, only made in this area. They a round long, round noodles, a similar shape to spaghetti, but made of rice flour. Usually they are served with a few pieces of finely sliced pork (obviously we missed this bit off) and a sprinkle of peanuts or toasted soy beans. Then a spoon each of some sort of oil and a type of sauce flavouring (something like soy?) is added before you take your bowl away to a table with a selection of different things to add yourself. Usually this is kelp (our favourite), some other small cubed vegetables, maybe a radish ( I think it was mooli), maybe cucumber, other different small pickled veg, coriander, chives and chili. After all this you add a scoop of stock and sit down with your bowl of noodles and a boiled egg and a long twisty piece of a sort of bread to dip in. Yum

They sell this everywhere. We tried quite a few and while they are all similar, they are definitely not the same. The best one we had was from a cafe marked on the map here.