The Troubadour of Tong Li

Corbett | March 1, 2008 9:43 AM

Our friends A-jie and Ning were in town, so Irene and I took a little day trip with them out to Suzhou on the fast train. We wanted to go to Xitan, where they filmed Mission Impossible 3 - those scenes in the end where Tom Cruise is running along the canals shouting "get out of the way" in Chinese - and I thought for some dumb reason it was in Suzhou. Boy was I wrong.

Xitan was closer to Shanghai, nowhere near Suzhou, so we hopped in a car and rambled into Tong Li instead, discovering a great little water village that wasn't nearly as commercial as a more popular nearby water village called Zhouzhuang. There weren't many people left since it was freezing cold, and we really enjoyed the couple hours of daylight left.

We found a nice little restaurant closing up, and convinced the owner to set up a table along the canal, and he cooked up some terrific homemade food, while we sat around in 2c weather and were treated to songs from his son.

It turned out to be a better day than you could've planned.

Click here if you are in China and YouTube is blocked.

Here's a quick tourist view of the day...

Category: Mr. Asia

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