City of Stars (or at least tea)

Happy Tuesday! Ordinarily Tuesdays suck, but this is the Tuesday of a four-day week.  So by mid-day tomorrow we'll already be halfway through the week!

Just to recap what we did today:

• Project sign-up 
• SAQ #3 (see your teacher if you were absent and need to make this up)
• Hangzhou activity 

Here are some things to take away from what you did about Hangzhou (I'm all about the bullet points today):

• Hangzhou was very cosmopolitan - there was a variety of foods to taste, luxury wares to purchase, and various sources of entertainment, all due to China's interactions with others
• There are many parallels to modern cities today - consumerism & entertainment - people purchasing things from speciality shops in cash, grabbing a bite to eat (how about some sticky rice and fried gizzard?) during their shopping excursions (how about some belts, silk, or boots?), and getting to enjoy a cultural festival (opera, puppet shows, juggling, fire shows, etc.)
• The presence of inns and the detailed descriptions on customs indicates that travelers from afar came to China and needed accommodations (or to be laughed at for not following cultural norms)
• The city also played host to a number of religions - the first mosque was constructed in the 7th century (not too long after Islam developed) and a series of Buddhist temples and pagodas were present
• Evidently people drank a lot

Don't forget - you're oh so ginormous WHAP reading is due tomorrow! And then your CCE chart is due Thursday! So many things!! 

And because it's the title of the blog post - 

This month's S.U.P.E.R. (Siddiqui's Unbelievable and Prepossessing Eating Recommendation) is somewhere I brunched at this past Sunday - Saint Ann's in Dallas. Can we say NOMS? The food is great and the ambiance is pretty cool.  Plus, it's attached to a samurai museum so you could take care of a Humanities Experience afterwards. 

This crab cake benedict became my best friend...until I ate it.

Until tomorrow!

- Siddiqui