Pagoda and the pandemic epicentre

E & BW had arrived late last night and despite the late night arrival, they were ready at 0830 to begin the day with breakfast at Hubu Alley before heading to Yellow Crane Pagoda.

BW is fluent in Mandarin and can read.  Until now, I was the best Mandarin speaker amongst us (with vocabulary of perhaps a six year old) and cannot read.  Her skills made ordering breakfast a breeze and we enjoyed a selection of snacks.

Over breakfast, I purchased the tickets for the nearby Yellow Crane Pagoda with a timeslot of 0830-1100.

The queue was horrendous when we joined around 1030.  To my surprise, it was very fast-moving and within about 20 minutes we were inside the ground floor of the pagoda.

It took time for us to get between each floor though, and there were a total of five floors including the ground floor.

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Huanan Market

From the pagoda, we took two cars to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.  Now closed, this was once the live animal and seafood market identified by some as the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

Rest of the day

From the market, we wandered across the road in search of lunch.  There was a restaurant with green (rather than the usual red) signboards and I mentioned to the others that in China, they’re usually Muslim restaurants.

But as soon as I had said that we realised it was a restaurant specialising in the pork of black pigs.  It was indeed an exception!

We settled into a nice restaurant serving local Hubei cuisine.  Once again, it was nice to have BW choose food without having to rely on photo menus.

After the big meal, we took a metro back to our area for a wander before resting and doing our laundry.

Later in the evening, I wandered out with E & BW to enjoy some street food followed by some wontons in a shop.

Wuhan’s busy pedestrian streets.