General Thread on China

[Froggy]

Was lucky last night found Singha in Shanghai's Di Shui Dong Hunan restaurant. Hate Chinese beer cos its so light





Crowded as usual


Long beans


Spare ribs with spices


Stir fried black mutton


Mapo tufu


Mei cai ko rou


Was a great meal in cold winter, was 6 degC outside

 

[Froggy]

MRT scene in Shanghai - like Singapore many Chinese are stuck with their smartphones when in tune subway

 

[Froggy]

Found a Singapore Prata stall outside a subway station













Have to admit it taste pretty good

 

[Froggy]

Scene in Yu Garden 城隍庙











Year of monkey so these monkeys


Street food














Rubber band shop

 

[knnb40]

eat and view while you can, the progress is fast and you will see all these start to change. Just like Sillypore changes from Hawker to Food-court....
I am in and out of china for the last 5-years and saw how each small town changes/progress

 

[Froggy]

So, today travelled to China, gonna be a long one, 2 weeks. The trip starts in Foshan. Arrived hotel 9.30pm, tired and hungry

Pretty large room

 

[Froggy]

Its been 3 days, was down with a bad flu and soar throat so each evening got back to hotel early and sleep didn't find time to post here Now in a train from Tai'an city to Wuhan (5hrs 47mins ride). So where were we? Yes Halloween 1st Nov,

Went to a nice restaurant serving Teochew porridge

On the way to the restaurant

Was around 10pm young people dressed up to enter a club for Halloween party

The restaurant

Chrysanthemum tea

Xiao long bao

Fried bean curd soup

Sliced beef salad

Here comes their specialty, porridge, ordered a pork rib porridge

So smooth and delicious

On the way back passed by a bar strip

 

[Froggy]

Morning view from the room in Intercontinental Foshan

Breakfast, lots of stuff to choose from

A simple breakfast

 

[Froggy]

After meeting with local people was brought to a local Hakka restaurant for lunch

Hakka cuisine always start with tofu, soft, tender Hakka tofu the best

Chicken with salt

Egg plant in stone

Stuffed vegetables in claypot

Black buns

 

[Froggy]

More meetings in the afternoon from Foshan to Shunde. Ended up at a Shunde restaurant. Shunde is considered the heart of Cantonese cuisine. Many of cantonese chefs in top restaurants around the world are from Shunde.

Video of the front of restaurant

Many famous people come here to eat

Dining room

Chicken feet

Roast goose

Braised pomelo skin

Pork knuckle and eggs in black vinegar

Seafood wrap

No idea what this is some kind of animals from sea sheels

Left over condiments used for soup

The soup

Spicy crabs in pot

Morning glory

Mantis prawn

Peeled

Seafood rool

Buns

 

[Froggy]

Woke up 5am yesterday for 1hr ride to the Guangzhou Baiyun Airport en route Shandong Jinan. Used the Shenzhen Airlines Lounge for breakfast

Nice freshly cooked beef noodles

2hrs and 20mins to Jinan

 

[Froggy]

Arrived in Jinan (capital city of Shandong province) and took a 1hr 30mins drive to Taishan. Taishan mountain is historically important in China history as it is a mountain the early emperors visited even the first emperor who united China Qin Shi Huang Ti.

Anyway I am here for for holiday so went to visit a factory right away arriving at factory about 1pm so went straight for lunch in the factory canteen. Now this don't look like any canteen at all rather its like a restaurant

The meal, local Shandong cuisine, really impressed

 

[Froggy]

Checked into a rather strange hotel room in Tai'an last night.



With a bath tub in the living area makes me wonder where is the hydro-therapist, lol

 

[Froggy]

Went to the starting point where people climb the Taishan Mountain just to look see

 

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Evening went for an early dinner, hot pot

Person who served us

Hot pot

With lots of goat meat and beef

 

[Froggy]

Although this hotel room is strange the breakfast is very extensive but too much really

 

[Froggy]

Wake up early this morning to catch a 5hrs 47mins train ride to Wuhan on a high speed train

At the Tai'an station

Here comes the train

 

[Froggy]

I am on a train again to Wuxi, a 3hr and 8mins ride. These are the classes on China's high speed trains -

2nd Class is 5 seats in a row

1st Class is 4 seats ina row

This is biz class

 

[Froggy]

Hotel room in Wuhan

View is not bad

 

[Froggy]

Dinner at a local restaurant serving Hubei local food

Cucumber with sweet sauce

Pak choy fry with rice chips

Lotus root soup

Hubei braised pork belly with eggs

Local rice wine

Rice cake

Beef in spicy and herbs

Claypot chicken

Stir fry pak choy

Pipa duck

Big meal for 6