Below are some of the photographs I took while researching the piece;

This is one of the private rooms at the Dragon Well Manor restaurant

The owner, A Dai (a.k.a. Dai Jianjun), with me on a fishing boat 

 One of the restaurant’s many small-scale suppliers

 Another supplier, with some aubergines (eggplants)

Bao Laichun, on the way back from a foraging trip to gather wild kiwi fruits

This is me, with some fishermen on a VERY unstable fishing boat, just before the deluge… still scribbling away in my notebook, which was getting damper by the minute… 

 A delivery of chickens

A few hours later…

Stir-fried freshwater shrimp (yum yum)

Qian Lu in the garden