Just yesterday a chill Siberian wind descended on Yangshuo making last weekend’s barbecue even more of a puzzle. We’ve had these chill temperatures off and on this winter but last weekend it was a bit warmer and quite nice if one was out in the sunshine. Last Saturday was a perfect day for a winter barbecue. The Owen College students meant to capture the moment.

Usually the school barbecues are held in front of the school building. But this time we went to a field about a thirty-minute walk from here. This was my second time to this particular field. In August 2006 I wandered into a valley looking for how rice was harvested. The pictures I took of the rice harvest are in an earlier posting. Interesting that we ended up in the same field last Saturday!

We arrived at the field just before noon. While others readied the fires, some of us prepared the meat skewers. We had lamb, beef and chicken. The lamb and beef were in thin strips. The chicken was wings and legs.

The school has two grills. (No we didn’t carry the grills to the field! The grills, the other supplies and a few people were transported to the field in the school wally wagon.) We cooked everything over charcoal fires.

We cooked lamb, beef, chicken, sausages, tofu, eggplant, corn, and onions. We also had some bread, sugar cane, oranges (from the market and from the field next to the field) and cake.

The guys drank a beer. The gals had orange pop or water. That’s a fairly common drinks arrangement

As always there was more than enough cameras around and much posing for photos. Kelly and Lynn stopped for this picture. I have Kelly to thank for the pictures in this posting as I forgot my camera and she remembered hers.

After we ate, some people went for a walk, some horsed around on a bike a teacher rode to the event, some played badminton or cards and a few even rested. It was an enjoyable afternoon….right in the middle of someone’s field!?