Feed The Ego

I went to a function last night hosted by the Municipal Government (equvalent to the state government in Australia I think). My Australian boss was receiving an award for his contribution to Chongqing and it was a fairly big deal. Before the meal we were treated to some entertainment - Chinese acrobats and dancing girls (Yes! Dancing Girls! Again!). The presentation itself was fairly quick. I had some concerns when the Mayor of Chongqing began the ceremony with a fairly long speech - mainly because he was flanked by about ten other officials on the stage. Fortunately his was the only speech.

There were a lot of foreigners at the dinner, in fact I had never seen so many in one place in Chongqing before. Dinner was a western-style buffet... I found some smoked salmon which made the whole thing worthwhile. Most impressive were the table lists though. Next to my name, under occupation I was listed as "Foreign Expert".