David goes to China

Home is a small apartment in the Sth of BJ. Up a few flights of stairs, looks dilapidated outside, very clean and fine inside.
Consists of one lounge/dining room, one double bedroom, on single bedroom, a 5ftx5ft wetroom/toilet and a 5ftx9ft kitchen. Home to mother and father of host; he lives in same apartment block with wife and 4 month old baby. Only host (=Yang) speaks English, so my vast knowledge of Chinese is very handy.
I thought they had a parrot - there's a large rectangular box covered with red velvet - but it revealed itslef to be a television. Everything is kept with a cover - eevn the telephone ahs a cloth over it, the remote control is covered in plastic...