Hey GC- everything is cool. Just got back from doing a Xiao Hong/Ji Ben gong seminar in Mexico City. Mx City was NUTS. The sheer vastness can not be described.Originally Posted by Green Cloud
And the food- I ate at every tortilleria and street stand I could get to. And tortas. They take tamales and put them in between two pieces of buttered mexican bread. God man, it sounds strange but it is delish. There is a small Barrio de China too, one block, but of course Shifu managed to locate the shop with the best noodles. I swear I think the noodles were actually trembling when he spotted them. I love how Chinese introduce local flavor and hybridize the cuisine- our favorite dish was a beef or vegetable ho fun soup with all kinds of mexican chillies and roasted jalapenos.
We also got to meet Monsignor Monroy- who I was told was like 3rd guy down from the Pope as far as Mexico is concerned, for a special audience and a personal presentation of the icon there at the basilica.
Well there was tons of stuff going on. Mexico is thirsty for TCMA.
I met a mexica indian who knew how to make a maquahuitl, so I am really looking forward to going back and collecting that!
The pants- you know we actually get these made ourselves, custom. A bunch of us were in the fashion industry- I used to work for Caffeine, you may have heard of it being from L.I. Anyway I don't think they break sets so they sell it as a whole robe set.
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Okay- here is the record on Seng Chou I have- you know I think there was a post on this forum about this- in the Record of Shaolinsi and also in the Biographies of Eminent Monks- Seng Chou became a monk at Shaolin in the 19th Year of Taihe- he is also mentioned in Taiping Guangji, and also Jiushi Jiwen, SengChou could leap over a man's head, lift a weight of a 1,000 jun, throw a punch quickly and fiercely, and move without sound.
In one of these sources Hui Guang was said to have been seen kicking a shuttlecok around the rim of a well in Luoyang as an exhibition of his martial skill, and also Seng Chou was seen to seperate two fighting animals.