20th September 2011
Another morning @ China… today waking up @ Suzhou de… Nice place to have breakfast… yeah~! Alot of western food… kekeke… happy~!
Nice environment le… with very heavy chair… kekeke…
My breakfast… hehehe… I think you will see the same thing through out all my China mornings… The most important is bread with jam and butter… nice nice nice~!
Snapping photos outside of the hotel in a freezing morning while waiting for others to start out journey for today…
Apala… shopping time again… Aiya… not what I needed… Know what we’re buying today…?
Yes… going to Suzhou’s 1st best silk factory…
Too bad cannot take photos of the silk worm and the process… really an eye opening experience… 1st time seeing the silk work… it’s something like the butterfly worm in light green colour… It feel cold and smooth when touching it… cute~ And the plant below is the food for those silk worm… 桑叶
Hehehe… as expected, I didn’t buy anything from there la… previously bought the silk blanket during my Beijing trip which I think the quality was not that good… Abit feel that kena tipu de… So, I promise to myself not to buy anything during China trips de… kekeke… Oh yea… at least no chance to trick me…
Lunch time… went to 吉运楼饭店 at 狮山永利广场… Another 苏帮菜 restaurant… Hehehe… hopefully will not be “运吉” la… kakaka…
Quite nice environment… special interior design hor…?
Yes… beer again… free one… and the teacher uncle drink every single time…
Wired taste toufu… not noce at all… aiyer… behose…
Celery strir fried with black fungus… normal la… you know I don’t like to eat celery… yuck~
Fried super small prawn with alot of green capsicums & onion… this is nice…
This is also nice… fried long beans with alot of dried chilli…
Braised pork knuckle… ok le… not bad also…
Hahaha… oh yea… squirrel fish again… nice nice nice…
Although this looks spicy and hot… but believe me… this totally have no taste… not even salty… Bean sprout with pork… beh ki la…
Think this is roasted duck gua… almost everyday also duck… aiyer… eat until high cholesterol lor…
Finish lunch de… ok la… not bad… Saw this shop beside our restaurant… see the big big ribbon on the door…? Wahhhh… cantik~!
Special flower by the river side… just opposite the restaurant…
Never see this before… special hor?
Ok la… after lunch… bid bye bye to Suzhou de… Next destination…? We’re going to Nanjing de… 3 hours bus drive from Suzhou to Nanjing de… Stop by half way for toilet and snacks…
Forget to tell… The tour was supply us a bottle of mineral water per day… hehehe… nice nice…
This place is really nothing… not worth to be a place to stop by and visit la… Xuanwu Lake @ Nanjing (玄武湖)… Paiseh la… not because of my camera or the photography technique… it’s really nothing to snap here… sigh
See what I mean…? Nothing…
Ok la… got a bunch of people rowing dragon boat… hehehe… that’s all I can snap… 1,2,1,2,1,2… go go go…
Ok la… continue the journey de…
Reaching 长江大桥公园…
毛泽东 welcomes you… hehehe…
Looking at the bridge across the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. Start building on 1960 and opening to public in 1968, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge is a dual-purpose rail road bridge , railway bridge length 6772 m, 4588 m long road bridges, ships, can pass under the bridge.
Such a grand bridge wor… sure need to take photo le… hehehe…
Finally reach Nanjing city de… nothing different from other city in China la… alot of high rise building… with alot of traffic and of course… bicycle & motorcycles…
See… everything on the same road… Pedestrians crossing wherever and whenever they like, no one wearing helmet when riding motorcycle, bicycle moving without following traffic rules and car driving with horns… Of course… our bus driver U-turned anywhere he wanted… hehehe… geng ler… this is the way of driving in China… kakaka…
Dinner time again… at quite a famous restaurant ~ 南京新开元大酒店.
See… every restaurant is so so grand… Chandelier pulak…
Hehehe… beer again… I wonder it uses water from which lake…
Salty cold cut chicken… Aiyer… not my type of food la… I like hot chicken more… hahaha…
Strange chewy feeling soya products… Hahaha… I also dunno how to explain… but wired le… dun like it…
Kind of 咕咾肉 again… this is super nice… Like it alot~!
Pork ball cooked in black sauce… quite ok le…
Cabbage stir fried with pork… ok la… not too bad…
I totally forget what is this de… maybe it’s not that nice to eat… kekeke… so, loss memory de… hahaha…
If not mistaken… this is call 窝窝头… Made by corn flour or a mixture of corn and other flour… Below it there is a big hole… specially prepared to put in the vegetable filling…
See… like this… hehehe… not bad… it’s like eating a brown colour “bao” with vegetables filling… hahaha… ok pun…
Yes… you already know what is this… right? Neh… that fish call squirrel fish le… Just that this squirrel fish does not have a head… and the size is bigger… Nice… Love this alot also…
Went to the hotel quite early today… We’re staying at the famous Mandarin Garden Hotel (状元楼酒店) at 夫子庙. Locate in the northern part of Confucius Temple, the center of Qinhuai Scenic District in Nanjing, Mandarin Garden Hotel is a Five-star hotel with distinctive national features.
The room not bad right? Nice… but cannot stay too long here… My dad’s friend Mdm. Wu and her husband, which both are university lectures are waiting for us downstairs at the lobby…
Oh yea… I meet with her when I was just a kid… Approximately 21 years ago… She came here for an exchange program held by USM & Nanjing University… My dad was one of the receptionist… hehehe… Brought her to Taiping Lake and Ipoh for the weekend… And today, after 21 years, we meet again… kakaka… Pengsan… long long old story…
Walking with them around Confucius Temple. Nice night view… and thanks alot to my nice camera… which able to capture nicely and clearly all the night view that I wanted…
See… river side with 2 big dragon…
Wonder what it will be when boarding the boat along this river… should be nice… right? kekeke…
Went to Mdm. Wu’s house for a long chat with them… kekeke… tired… but happy because meeting back old old old friend… Hopefully they will be healthy and happy always…
Ok la… sleeping time de… Night night…