Dr. Dennis Hickey and his wife, Cheng-May, visit the Forbidden City in Beijing, China on October 8, 1998
The Summer Palace on October 9, 1998
Behind the antique market in Beijing--vendors selling the antiques (and junk) they bring to town from the countryside.
Unlike those relegated to the outdoors, these antique dealers have a roof over their heads.
Inside the antique market building, this booth specializes in items produced during the Cultural Revolution. The poster on the left is particularly collectible--it deplicts three hands crushing the USA (ouch!).
In keeping with the theme of his booth, the dealer wears an old Mao suit.
An outdoor food market in central Beijing sells many different kinds of food.
The food vendors know how to have a good time!
Central District in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
After many visits to Hong Kong, we finally went to a very popular tourist destination--the floating restaurant at Aberdeen. The food was good--but expensive.
Leaving the restaurant on a water taxi at night. Almost looks like Christmas in Springfield!
A study in contrasts. In the foreground, people living on boats. Behind them are high-rise apartments.
In keeping with family tradition, our first night in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China was spent having Beijing Duck with Papa (Rear Admiral Tsung-Yen Kwei, Retired).
Food in Tokyo is expensive, but if you buy it on the street its more reasonable and still pretty good.
Cheng-May resting at the Tokyo National Museum. The park behind her was beautiful, but a lot of homeless people live in tents under the trees.
The Japanese were lining up to buy this snack, so Cheng-May did the same. Her observation was that, while she didn't know what it was, it sure was good!
High-tech is everywhere in Japan. Here we see a computerized fortune teller in the park.
This elderly woman, the rabbit lady, comes to the park every Sunday afternoon with her pet rabbit. When we asked a passer-by (a Japanese who once attended UMKC) if it was common for Japanese to keep such animals as pets, we were informed that "it is very rare."
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