A parade in Asia

I'm in an asian country walking on an empty road. I come upon a hoop handing over the road with vines hanging down from it. I want to take some clippings for my vivarium and notice that the individual vines are different species of vines grafted together. As I begin to take pictures of it, a parade comes by with a float commemorating a U.S. invasion of the nation. As the parade goes by, the vines are rolled up to let the floats pass.

After the parade, I'm a guest in the house of a local. I'm getting something to eat in the kitchen. There's some sort of food that is very juicy - something like melon on a bone - that I'm preparing over a wate bin. I realize the waste bin is leaking so try to carry it across the kitchen to another bin, but make the situation worse, creating a trail of sticky goo across the floor. I want to clean it up without the lady of the house finding out - I try to mop the mess up with paper towels, but it doesn't help much.

The residents of the house come into the kitchen and the woman starts to clean up my mess. She doesn't say anything and I can't tell if she's angry or not. I ask one of the males if they can unfurl the hoop of vines again so I can get better pictures. He does with a remote control, but it was made to look nice and be rolled up once - it is kind of mussed up now.