Mini UN at Monkey Jane's

Last night Jess and I tried a pizza place recommended by a classmate of ours who spent a lot of time in Yangshou. The place was called Karst Pizza and it also featured rock climbing tours. We wanted to get a half cheese, half Hawaiian pizza, but we were told that we would have to pay MORE than the cost of the Hawaiian pizza (normally this request is accommodated but we usually have to pay the higher cost of a full Hawaiian) "because the cook has to do extra work." This sounded very fishy to us, since he still would have to put cheese down for a Hawaiian pizza, hence the incremental cost is negligable, and we knew from managerial accounting that this would resut in a favorable direct materials and direct labor efficiency variances. On principal we refused and just got a margarita pizza. Jess and I have great plans to special order everything when we get back to the states. The pizza was good, but not as good as the Kro's Nest in Beijing.

We met an American couple, young and just out of college, who had been teaching English in China. They reccommended a bike ride to a swimming hole as well as a rooftop bar at a nearby hostel called Monkey Jane's. We decided to check the place out. The guy said a lot of westerners hung out there and we were ready for a little western company. He wasn't kidding with the rooftop descriptor, we had to climb 6 flights of stairs to get up there! The bar was pleasant and airy and featured a beer pong table! Jess and I were very excited for beer pong.

The patrons were a typical mishmash of internationals, with Scots, Swedes, Danes, French and Brits. We defeated some Swedes and the Brits in rapid succession, and then lost in a nailbiter to different Swedes. Later on I teamed up with one of the Brits to defeat some of the same Swedes again. Truly global cross cultural communications!

Everyone was just kind of traveling around China, the Brita were hitting all the countries in Southeast Asia and then heading to Australia to find work and live on the Gold Coast. They invited us to join them and I was seriously tempted to join them! Alas, I have things like summer jobs and responsibilities to keep me from tio-ing off.