Fun with a bun in the sun

Oh yes. The sun has come out in China and BOY is it hot. Loving it. You can see the snow-capped mountains from the towns. The baby one we climbed half-way up in Dali was higher than anything you can find in Europe with the highest mountain from the UK balanced on top of it, so I'm told. We wheezed our way up it in the sunshine, had some noodles (you can eat good food everywhere here) and then got a chair-lift down. It was class. Really peaceful with amazing views of a huge lake with a musak version of Take My Breath Away playing at regular intervals. Surreal and sublime.
We're now even further north in Yunnan in another UNESCO world-heritage town (Lijiang). It's lovely - a really old town (well, it was rebuilt after an earthquake early last century but they rebuilt it as it was) with windy cobbled streets and hump-backed bridges and peace and quiet and views of another huge snow-capped mountain. And we're staying at a hostel where the host is like your mam and she tries to feed you or give you tea every time you move. Cute.
Having a bit of a panic though as have not yet located a bun-shop for my daily fix. I keep mentioning these little beauties but they are soooo nice. They are steamed and are like fresh hot white bread filled with the sausage-meat from a good sausage roll (my mam's, for instance). Mmmmmmmm. You can normally get about 8 good ones for less than 20p. And now I've discovered another loveliness - the same sausage-meat encased in a ravioli made of noodle-pasta, steamed, and then devoured with a dip of dried chilli, chopped spring onions and soy sauce that you assemble yourself to your taste from the ingredients available on your table. Oooooooh, I love it. People who don't eat street food when they travel really are missing out. Mmmmmmmmm. Must learn how to make these things. Mmm, time for a mid-afternoon snack maybe?