Hold the Baked Beans
Went out last night to Eversun Coffee for dinner. Eversun is one of a handful of Western-style restaurants in Korla which makes it a welcome change from the staple of spicy Sichuan or spicy Uighur food. Located on the third floor of a building along from Korla’s finest Silver Star Hotel, Eversun Coffee opened late last year and has the coolest decor in our little neck of the woods.
The food isn’t great but that is par for the course in Korla. I had a pizza which tasted like the kind of pizza we used to have when we would go to a friends house at high school. No baked beans but corn was certainly a feature. Chooch had pasta which they made specially for her - no vegetarian pasta on the menu. Good for them that they can think a little bit outside of the box. It did taste rather like Uighur noodles though.
At the moment they are running an exhibition of paintings by a local artist. I have met him once and been to his studio but sadly don’t know his name. The paintings deal mainly with the local Silk Road landscape, the people and houses in a very evocative way. They range in price from 300 RMB (about US$37) up to 800 RMB for a large painting so we are thinking about buying one. The only question is how to get it back to Japan.
Painting in Xinjiang is still in its fledgling stage with few opportunities for artists to exhibit and sell their works. In Korla there is one gallery which deals in Chinese calligraphy but as for painting there is nothing outside of a few cafes. The idea of being an artist or even just buying art is a long way out of the ken of most Chinese here.
On another topic: shouts to Chris from Radio Active in Wellington, NZ who played a Mink track - Green Eyes Blue - for me on his New Zealand music show last Tuesday. Rocking. It should be posted for download on noizyland’s noizypod soon.
And finally a big welcome back to Korla to Lincoln who caught the travel bug (not!) and went on a visa and passport run to Hong Kong and Canada.
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