Monday night we boarded our mini bus again and headed over to the cafeteria of our Chinese Business partner. This company has a cafeteria in a neighborhood of mid-rise buildings that house a lot of their employees.
It was a similar setup to Sunday night with the private dining rooms, lazy susans and lots of VLL. Mr G was the host again and the toasting got ratcheted up a notch, perhaps because we had karaoke on the schedule for later in the evening.
The meal was very good --- maybe 20 different dishes in all. There was a weird meatball that was a meatball, within a meatball with a hot soup inner core. It was very hard to eat with chopsticks and dangerous with the hot center. "Dessert" around here usually involves a dumpling course. I always think of Kung Fu Panda when they bring those things out!
After dinner, we were back on the mini bus to the karaoke palace. This was a first for me and quite the experience. It reminded me of Vegas --- very glitzy with lots of attendants.
They led us down this long marble hallway to a basement room with a large video screen. Our Chinese host programmed a bunch of songs in and they brought out bottles of Budweiser (thankfully no VLL). The Chinese love their karaoke and are VERY good singers. They seem to favor the ballads with male /female duets. Mr G was particularly good. It may be a requirement for advancement and his #2 could really belt it out too.
Lots of fun till we finally left at around 11:30.
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