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China trip notes reveal lavish banquets and careful travel days
The narrative recalls meals from Nanking to Canton with Chinese banquets, street foods, and Western style hotels. It details hotel amenities, room service, dining routines, clean trains and buses, and the travel oddities of a Canadian tour group through Shumchun, Canton, Wuhan, Hangzhou, and Peking.
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Nanking
Peking
Wuhan
China
Shumchun
Kowloon
Hong Kong
Great Hall of the People
Mao Tse-tung
Canton
Purple Mountain
Hangchow