In order to make sure I still remember how to blog, so I am forcing myself to upload my recent Korea trip photos and share it up here. It’s really good to be back to blogging. I just read back all my previous post, I really put my effort to keep my blog tidy and interesting. Imagine those days I have to edit photos using Photoshop just because those days there’s not much tools to simplify the editing process. Things are getting simpler with the advancing of the technology, so I believe there’s no more excuse other than lazy for me to continue blogging.

So this is a pretty heavy steps to step on before I start.

I am lazy to edit photo, so I just update directly to flickr. Not sure if it’s still functioning as before but I try.

Let’s begin with my Korea Travelogue again, although it wouldnt be as comprehensive as before, but I shall treat it as a diary That’s it!

It’s definitely a good news, because we were given chance to participate Sunweu Elite Partner’s Korea Trip 2013.

Our trip was backdated on Jan 2013. It’s winter in Korea, so I’ve actually need to be well prepared before I leave for the trip. I was so excited also because it’s our first Korea trip and it’s also the 1st time experiencing real snow in my life! That’s amazing !!

One of the itinerary in this trip was going to the SKI. So we were given 1 night to stay at this Vivaldi Park. All the SKI equipment and clothing are provided, or actually they rented it for us. So we just need to measure our size at a shop and they will hand it over to us. If you are going by your own, you can either buy it or rent it there.

This is the view from our hotel room. The SKI park operate till very late, which around 2am I still can see people skiing at the park.

The hotel rooms are actually apartment style,  which comes with 2 rooms. All the rooms are complete with TATAMI style , we actually sleep on the floor. Since it’s winter, there’s no aircond needed and all their floors are installed with heater which will keep us warm.

Then, this is how the Ski park looks like in the morning.

So the Ski experience begins the next morning. We had rented what we should, so hanging around with friends over the night with the local wine, SOJU. That’s really great experience to drink in such a cold weather. Oh, did i tell you the weather was NEGATIVE degrees? I can’t exactly remember how cold it was but I only know the coldest went down to -17c. That’s crazy!

The moment we enter the Ski park, the snow begans. Everyone is getting more excited with the snow.

It’s really not an easy task to wear up all these. I am too bulky to move, I skate instead of walk. It’s really too heavy. Especially the shoes, they says you will feel like a ROBOT. That’s true. The shoes must be tight in order to hold the blade. Everything is so difficult for an inexperience beginner.

Our tour guide will coach us how to Ski. Somehow, we were actually only given 2 hours to experience it. We are not here to be professional anyway. So everyone start to walks like a crab. I have to be honest that I’m totally a failure for this sport.

I only went to ski for 1 round, I fell down, so I gave up immediately. It will be full of fracture if I keep on falling down. I let Alex go have fun with others. While waiting, let me fully experience the cool air and the SNOW!  I’m not the one who keep falling down, see in the picture, at least 2-3 people is on the ground. When you are practicing on Ski , you will totally forget about the cold weather. In fact you will be sweating because you keep on moving. That’s really a good exercise.

Lot’s of local Korean will likes to spend their weekends at Ski Resort. This Ski resort is only an hour away from Seoul.

Snow is getting more, I am getting more excited. I think I spent at least an hour at outdoor. I am so brave. Cos I am not skiing and I was just there enjoying the scene and breeze. Crazy!

The streets are full of snow too . What a beautiful scenery. But watch out the slippery floor, it’s very dangerous too!

Sweet Sweet moment in Korea 2013. We enjoyed the trip very much!

We are heading back to Seoul after the ski resort. More travelogue to update!

Finally my travelogue for China trip has come to The End.

Thinking back, it was just happened a month ago but I feel like I wanted to go Holiday again! My next trip to Melbourne has been called off, heart pain, very pain! Don’t sob so much, let’s continue the final day in China. As we will be departing from Hang Zhou airport, so we need to depart Shanghai in the afternoon.

For the morning session, we went to 七宝老街 which is  also an old street that sell a lot of food and local products.

This street is more localize, according to the tour guide, most of the tourist would not have visited this place. As this is one of our add on places of interest, so we have the chance to see some different culture here again. From the street, beggars were a lot, but the most pathetic could be seeing a lady carrying a baby begging on the street.  That’s really a sad side of China.

It is surrounded by a river, and we need to cross a bridge in accessing the stalls.

There’s a lot of food stall that sells varieties of local delicacies. By looking at it , all looks yummilicious, but when eating it, I found the taste could be so out of my taste bud. =(

Most of the stalls are selling similar products, such as intestine , smelly tofu , rabbit meat, which is a never in my list!

The only food that could attracted me, the candy, the glutinous rice balls, and beverages.  The glutinous rice balls were so big and hot, you have to be extra careful while eating it.

And I found a cute lion like dog! The owner just carry him around, and he is so friendly!

Ding ding ding, it’s lunch time Last lunch in Shanghai, and the soup is super HOT but NICE!

Then we depart to Hang Zhou, another 3 hours road trip. Still in time to have to do some shopping before the dinner.

Final dinner in Hang Zhou before we proceed to the cultural show.

西湖之夜  , the show is fantastic, worth for the price for what we’ve paid

Lastly, the end of the trip. Reaching Hang Zhou airport, and we’ve to ensure all of our luggage are not overweighted! The check in progress was quite smooth, as we were there on time so we still have plenty of times buying some food from the airport terminals.

The flight back to Kuala Lumpur will take another 5 hours to reach, so we must have a good sleep in the flight. Reaching KL around 4 am in the morning, and back to Miri at 7am flight. The overall journey was really meaningful, we really had a lot of great moments hanging out with friends.  Hopefully, there’s gonna be another chance to travel again with a bunch of friends. Till here, the end of my China Travelogue. Hope you enjoy reading the journey with me.

Finally , it reach Day 7 of our China Trip. I’ve recovered from Flu, weather has been turning hotter, wallet has gone slimmer and tummy has got bigger. Phew!

So we’ve seen all the landmark in Shanghai, so today it’s time to EMPTY our wallet. Hurray! Whenever the tour guide says “Shopping Time” the whole group will automatically wake up.

The morning tour begins with “Chinese Traditional Massage”.

I keep wondering, it’s not listed in our itinerary, but how come the package so good bring us to massage. As what I thought, it was like in Thailand, where they bring you to massage and you have to pay tips to the masseur. Anyway, XiaoYuan the tour guide insist the massage is FREE, no tips allow. That’s bring more suspicious to us, where got FREE lunch in the world?

So when we reach the massage place, the tour guide will start telling us this is a Medical Hall run by the government called 同仁堂 .  Finally, the real faces come out, they use “Massage” as an excuse to get closer to you then the master will start telling you which part of your organ is dying, you should buy this , take this , and eat this to cure your sickness!

By now, you should feel that it’s a SPAM right?
See, we Chinese very “kiasi”. We can accept whatever cursing they made, and agree that we should take precautions in that short 30 minutes. All brain washed, by CLOROX!. Almost the whole group of us did purchase at least something from them. A little tiny bottle will cost RM200+, nothing is cheap here.  Yet, they will have their ways to persuade you to buy in bulk, at least for 3 months supplement , so the amount ended up to be very BIG.

Really, no free lunch in this world. Now you believe?
You only get to eat such a great meals after spending a few thousands of Ringgit Malaysia at their shop.

See la, next time, don’t bring credit cards. You have cards, you have excuse to simply spend! Dangit!

So where’s the medicine now? Inside the drawer, growing mucus soon.

Enough is Enough. Lesson learnt. Let’s continue the entire trip.

The next stop after lunch was at 新天地 Xin Tian Di, a western street where you could see a lot of westerner having lunch here.

The building are nice and unique. I felt that I’m stepping in London Street!

Next, we went to 城隍庙 Cheng Huang Miao , it’s not a temple but it’s actually an old street that consist of a lot of shoplots selling local products and handicraft.

We get to see a lot of new things here, especially in FOOD.

If you are thinking to get souvenir, then this is a great place to buy souvenir. Somehow, you must remember to bargain very HARD. As this is a tourist area, you can’t avoid they might slaughter you anytime.

As for the food, the most popular Shanghai Dumpling Bun  上海小笼包 sold here too. They have a lot of stalls selling it but the one called 南翔 is the best. But make sure you are ready for the long queue. I did not manage to try that bun, but my friend who had tried it says it taste just like what we had in the restaurant. So why does so many people still queuing for it ? Because it’s Famous la!

There’s a lot of side food, along the streets. There’s the pigeon, I really don’t dare to eat. Ya, i scare “bertflu”. Hahha

I’ve bought some souvenirs here while others bought a lot of “Cheong Sam”. It’s relatively cheap compare to what we could get in Malaysia. It’s just selling at RM80 per piece.  Price varies by quality.

We spent about 2 hours here, and the next station before dinner is another shopping station. But it’s yet another SPAM place. It’s the place selling 貔貅, Brave Troops. If you are superstitious, then you may consider buying one. They will tell you your luck, and let you know which colour of the troop is best suitable for you.

The lousy dinner, reason: because we did not purchase enough 貔貅 so he can’t earn more commission.

For the rest of the night, we were given own leisure time. Since our hotel is very near to 城隍庙, so we decide to go there again at night. The buildings were light up at night, looking real nice! We came back again to do last minute shopping, and I get my mom and my niece some Cheong Sam.

This would be the final night in China. Heading back to hotel, and start packing again. Tomorrow we will be heading back to Hang Zhou , and flying back to Malaysia.

Yes, I’m back to my travelogue again. Lately has been very very busy, but I’m happy over the hectic weekends at least it’s fruitful! Since today I’ve set myself a day off in office, so I grab the chance to continue blogging before I kick off at 6.30pm.

Back to my journey in China, we are going from Wu Xi to Shanghai on Day 6.

Went around a garden which I’ve forgotten the name, but it’s raining in the morning so it’s too hazy to take picture of Lake Tai Hu.

Remember what I told you about Wuxi in my previous post, it’s all about the “Lake of Tai Hu, 太湖”. So the local tour guide, a very pretty and confident lady called “xiao zhu” guided us to the Pearl Factory in Wu Xi. They have invent and planted this Pearls for years in the Lake Tai Hu.   It’s actually a shopping stop, which I would like to remind all the tourist, you really need to control your urge of buying when you reach this kind of shop.

• They will do demonstration, and tell you how GOOD is their PEARL.
• Pearl powder for health
• They will show you their Facial Product
• Pearl Accessories for ladies

Honest speaking, in olden days my mom say Pearl Powder are very expensive. Well it’s true enough, a small pack of 10 boxes cost around RM270. Yet, you need to buy in bulk. I bought it for my in law, I think they needs it more than we do.

For the facial cream, I will say big NO NO. Looking at the packing,does it worth for RM250 for that little bottle of pearl cream? They name it as BMW to indicate it’s quality assurance. As for the Pearl Jewellery, personally I did not spent a single cent buying it,  and if you are not interested please don’t ask them to take it out for u else the salesgirl will haunt you like a GHOST!

Okay, shopping done. We are going to take the a long road trip to Shanghai now.

On the rest station, at the Highway.

I’ve been wanted to try their “Sweet Corn” especially when I see it’s hot! Best on the cool weather.  Alex bought his favourite 关东煮 and I had my Sweet Corn which is tasteless, not crunchy and not sweet at all. Then only the tour guide tell me, all their “corn” are born that way !?!

Reaching Shanghai around 12, accessing all the great foods again. Dishes are more or less quite similar but still consider as edible

The afternoon tour is to visit the National Museum, but since it says No Photo allow so I’m also lazy to take photos there. It’s really a boring place, nothing much to see and it’s quite small. The one in Taiwan is more interesting.

After the Museum, we went to the most remarkable landmark, Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai.

This is my 2nd visit to Pearl Towel, still looking the same great after 10 years.

You need to go through a long queue before accessing the lift that brings you to the observatory sightseeing floor at 263m height.

Going down to 90M height to experience  the adventure of outdoor walking on the transparent floor.

Inside the pearl tower on the lower floors, there is a Wax Museum which contains of Shanghai History.

Amazingly, the wax museum are really unique. They must have spent a lot of time building this thing. All looks very real, and it does have a little creepy feeling too!

It’s getting late, and we are heading to 外滩 . It’s by walking distance from Pearl Tower to reach here. Wonderful views of the Classic and Modern Shanghai. Just capture a few pictures, then we are going for our dinner!

Again, I’ve no appetite with the dinner here. Too oily, salty and taste weird to me. Most important, it’s not hygiene at all. I bought myself an instant noodle again, and that’s for my supper!

After dinner, we have a cruise ride at 黄浦江, along the river. It’s very cold at night but luckily we all are well prepared.

Last and Final stop for the night at Shanghai, 南京路 where lots of 1st shop in Shanghai was founded here. Definitely it’s not a shopping heaven for me, all I need was FOOD.

Finally, 10 pm we were all back to Hotel. Overall I love this hotel, probably because it has a transparent toilet that makes me feel like it’s an honeymoon suite. :p

In my own opinion, I would say Shanghai is not a great place to stay, but a great place for tourist. I could see that most of the people here are very stressful surviving for their works. Compare to the previous cities that we’ve been to, Shanghai is the most developed but it’s also the most crowded.  Everything in Shanghai are slightly more expensive than other places.  I will never love to stay at the place with high cost of living. A simple life in Miri, isn’t it good enough?

Stay tune for Day 7!

Day 4 of my China Trip.

It also recorded the day of I’m not able to login to FB and also days of running nose. Achooo! Luckily, Mr Sunshine seems to protect me in Su Zhou.

The weather has turn better, roughly around 15′c daily. So we’ve actually took down a few layers of clothing, and look less bulkier from now on.

The Liverpool hotel does give a better standard of breakfast compared to previous. Seems like our hotels are getting better day by day.

Although we have a tour guide with us, somehow when we reach to Su Zhou, the tour agent arrange another local tour guide to bring us around. Met Xiao Liang, which I think he is quite professional. He actually brief us a lot of Local Cultures, the place where he grown up.

The first stop that we visited was the 耦园 , Couple’s retreat garden. Sounds cool right?  Personally I love this garden compare to the next one.

All these are so movie scene, isn’t it?

There’s a lot of flowers and rocks inside the garden. So just take as much photo as I could. :p

We were actually too happy to see the sunshine, it makes the whole garden lighten up! So do our mood!

We spent about 30 mins in this garden.  We took a boat ride back to the main entrance. It’s purposely arrange by the tour guide, he says he want us to experience their cultural. The old nanny will sing us some oldies, such as Teresa’s song and we will give some tips for her hard-work.

The boat ride was intent to be short, is just giving us a chance to take a look of the river view. There’s also a nice sakura inside this garden. This is the 1st time in my life to see sakura too!

The next garden we’re heading , would be 狮子林 Lion Grove Garden.  Sounds like a zoo more than a garden to me.

This place is over crowded compare to the previous garden. Maybe it’s smaller, and its located near to town area so there’s more visitor going into this garden. There’s a lot of street hawker trying to sell us some preserved fruits. Basically they are targeting tourist,  and they will sell you the fruits at a ridiculous price as if you have never seen fruit before.

So what to see inside this Lion Grove? It is famous for its large and labyrinthine grotto of taihu rock at the garden’s center as cited from Wiki. For me, personally, due to the crowd, seriously I can’t find any good spot to observes the rock. So , forget about it. Just take a few photos for remembrance.

That has been very kind of the tour guide, for arranging us to both of UNESCO garden of Su Zhou.

Before he ended the tour of Su Zhou, we were introduced to the Silk Factory. They said, this is government run organisation, so that the tourist should not have worry about purchasing their product.  The silk product that was being introduced by the tour guide does sounds so good somehow the quality of the product could only be justify after a few years of using it.

Again, the whole group, only the elderly couple bought a few products.

So cut the crap, let’s go to Can Ting. Anything wrong? Ya, it’s call 餐厅.   That was the pinyin translate.  Hmm, or why don’t they name it Canteen, it’s more similar to the translation.  Anyhow, the meal from here are consider good. Not too oily, which is more suitable to our taste bud.

Look at that huge pork leg, oh… that’s William’s favourite.

This conclude our Su Zhou, garden tour in the morning.  I will update more on shopping is Su Zhou in my next post

Finally after the 2 hours “pee holding” road trip, and shortly we arrived Wu Zhen 乌镇. I’m proud to tell you that this is my 2nd visit to this beautiful scenic town. Somehow, I’ve lost my memory for the past 10 years, so now I’m here again to recall it back!

Although this place has been one of the most popular tourist spot, somehow, the historical & cultural scene within this wall are well kept & maintain. Believe or not , it has last for more than a thousand years. There are still residents living in this water town, living on a simple life and doing some small business for living.

Take a look at the whole structure, its very classic with historical interest.  There’s only one best word to describe Wu Zhen, a peaceful water town.

Our tour guide, Xiao Yuan brief us some chinese beliefs in the olden days. In all the architectures built, they have their own reasons behind.

This little girl who also grow up in this town, earning by selling the handicrafts for living. Some of the houses are selling some local desserts.

The classic windows and doors which you only found in Chinese Ancient movie, but now the modern “us” are standing inside.

The structures of all the building are almost the same, but the most similarity would be their roof & tiles.

We enjoyed photo taking.

I love the street view.

I love the water town scene.

I love the old buildings.

It’s really a great place for visit.

At least for me, who has never grown interest with Chinese history, would gain a chance by witnessing by my own.

Somehow I dislikes the dinner provided. I think they purposely want us to taste what the locals are having. It looks so home cook right?  That’s absolutely right, the restaurant name were also very classic, it’s call Grandma’s Home, 婆婆家·  See, non of us appreciate the dishes, seriously I can cook 10x better than this.  Hahaha, don’t challenge me. :p

Sky is getting dark, we departed Wu Zhen around 7pm, and reaching Su Zhou 苏州 by 8pm.

Su Zhou welcome us with strong winds, I believe it’s reaching another 4′c coldness. We went to the lake side to have a night view of Su Zhou industrial park which is a project cooperation of  China & Singapore. No wonder, the buildings does resemble a bit like Singapore’s!

Then we witness the biggest LED Screen in the world , which is located at Su Zhou.  It’s located along the street and it’s outdoor type. Once again,an eye opener for me, woah, that’s really awesome! I truly understand, why people classified China as the fastest growing country.

We were staying at Liverpool hotel, where MU fans were also have to stay here. Ahaks! This is the hotel room that we’re staying. Although the TV program is not as good as previous, but its located so near to the Universities. We can access to all kind of student’s night life, and this is a great place for us to hang out.

Having our mid night supper at one of the restaurants. We’re not alone, there’s still a few student hanging out although it’s getting late.  Feels like we’re back to 18 again.

That’s conclude a long haul journey. Pretty tiring with running nose with me. Took a good rest and we’re going to visit lot’s of Su Zhou classical gardens tomorrow. Stay tune ya!

After staying 2 nights in Hang Zhou, today we will be heading to Su Zhou.

The weather is good, about 13′c, it’s still cold but at least it’s not raining.

The last destination in Hang Zhou will be visiting their most famous Long Jing Tea Factory, 龙井茶. Honestly, I think our Cameron looks better, but the tea leaves I’m not the expert to compare. According to the experts from the tea factory, whom so called himself as Tea Expert saying that Long Jin Tea is good for health, and that is what Japanese call it Green Tea.

This is actually a shopping stop, which is compulsory included by the tour. The expert is trying very hard to sell off his product, telling us jokes and do so much demonstrations on how great the tea is.  I believe that the tea is really good but well, non of us purchased except Uncle & Aunty, the only elderly in our tour whom are the parents of my best friend, Yen.

Initially Alex thought of getting me a can, which is about 125g only. Somehow they are  selling in bulk, which cost ranging from RM600 to RM1200 for 500g. This is way too expensive for the people whom don’t know how to value the tea. It’s a waste, I thought. Somehow, I think that Long Jing is actually smell very nice compared to other tea that I’ve ever taste.

According to the expert, everyone in China loves tea, especially Long Jing Tea. It can be drink even its cold. Alex keep emhasizing to me, it can helps to reduce fat! OMG, that’s the thing that he actually wanted me to have this.  Still, I said it’s too expensive, so he ended up didn’t buy any. Hahahhaa , evil is laughing!
Since nothing is bought, let’s take some photo for remembrance. Yay! =)

Finally we had a better lunch somewhere nearby the Tea Plantations.

The special dishes are finally here, 东坡肉 and 叫花鸡 . Taste absolutely great! Compared to what we had yesterday, this is heaven privilege.

Not only the food is great, the whole surrounding are with great views of Hang Zhou.

The remaining afternoon, we shall not drink too much. Have to make sure the bladder is empty, because we are taking another 2 hours journey to Wu Zhen before we could reach Su Zhou.

After 2 hours ride, we reach this little town, but it’s not Wu Zhen yet, it’s a Chrysanthemum factory, another shopping stop.  I get frightened by the toilet, which make me lost confidence with whatever product sold from this factory.  The toilet trauma is still deeply remembered.. its better not to share here.

About the Chrysanthemum, it’s consider very cheap, it sells in bulk as well, RMB100 for 4 boxes. Still, you can’t get my business le!

Alright, enough of shopping, enough of the eerie toilet, we still need to take another hour ride. We will be reaching Wu Zhen 乌镇 shortly, kindly follow the next blog post.

Before that, let’s enjoy the wonderful country side view. I’m hearting it! =)

This is the first time I visit to Hang Zhou 杭州 , China. Like I mention in my previous post, by judging it’s Airport Terminal, I’ve already have some high expectations over the development of this city.

Our tour guide, Xiao Yuan tells us some great stories of china. I cited up here one of  the Chinese sayings, 生在苏州, 活在杭州, 吃在广州, 死在柳州.  I roughly translate it, born in Su Zhou, Live in Hang Zhou, Eat in Guang Zhou, Die in Liu Zhou. So why is that live in Hang Zhou? That’s because Hang Zhou is popular of its beautiful scenery. A lot of them find it peaceful to stay here compare to other developed city. In fact, they are very proud to be part of Hang Zhou.

The main tourist attractions in Hang Zhou would be the Westlake 西湖。It’s not only attracted tourist but during the public holidays and weekends the locals would get around. The city is build around the lake, which is around 600 hectares and there’s a lot of scenic place around which are worth for visits.

Our 1st destination of the day will be taking a boat ride around Westlake. It’s around 4′c and everyone of us were challenging the coldness with the rain!

The lake itself is very big, but by taking the boat, we can view up all the scenic spots and the tour guide will give us a little knowledge of the love legend of Westlake.  Seriously, I can’t recall of what I’ve heard.

By walking distance, we reach another attractions, 雷峰塔  , a pagoda which is built along the Westlake. There’s of course another historical story of this pagoda, but cut the crap, we are taking the lift and going up to the 4th floor. The great scenic view of the lake  was really awesome.

Shortly, it reach lunch time. I’m a bit worry of the food in China. You know, there’s always article saying that food in china were processed by unknown materials. We shouldn’t bother much, and I have faith with the travel agent they don’t dare to play fishy here. Isn’t it?

We were brought to this restaurant which is also located by the lake. The eating hall looks grand, but dishes ain’t giving good appetite.  Maybe this is our first meal in China, we haven’t get used to the food.

1. It’s too salty

2.It’s too oily

3. Food ingredients are weird

4. The portion are damn HUGE

5. Their fish has a lot of BONES

Out of the above, actually we do enjoy the meal. Every meal, we would have at least 8 dishes on the table. Non of the meal we could finish up the whole portions.

Let’s continue our Westlake journey to the long bridge 长桥. According to Xiao Yuan, this is a lover’s bridge. So he advise us to cross the bridge by holding our partner’s hand tightly. Sweet & Romantic right? Not only that, it was still raining, we were walking under the rain and crossing the bridge. <3

After the heavy lunch, Xiao Yuan told us that the afternoon programs were mostly by foot and there’s a hill to climb.  What? In such cold weather, you expect us to climb hills?  He must be kidding right?

We did take a 40 mins walk around the lake, surrounded with beautiful peach blossoms.. I’ve almost forgotten the cold. Do you like the flowers? Let’s have a closer look

Hope you like it

The whole group of us refuse to go up to the hill, in fact we ask the tour guide, what could we see from the hill? He answered us, “West lake”. Enough, we had enough of westlake. So just take a photo at the entrance and we proceed to other places. At least we’ve been here, Gu Shan 孤山。

The next destination would be the “岳王庙” , the Temple of Yue Fei.
There’s some old folks story, but I’m totally blank of these. Alex knows better, he’s interested with all the historical stories.

It’s almost 5pm. Near to closing time.

Before we proceed to Dinner, we have a little street walk again by the lake.  The whole day program was totally all about the West Lake. There’s nothing much here, just crossing some streets, and take some pictures. Our dinner were somewhere nearby, so around 6pm we proceed to have dinner.

This time, the restaurant looks a bit classy. It’s on the 2nd floor inside a building.

As what we’ve been told, the signature dish in Hang Zhou are the dong po rou 东坡肉 and Jiao Hua Ji 叫花鸡。 However,  Xiao Yuan says that tonight they are unable to provide us, I don’t know what’s the reason behind. What to do, just eat what is provided. The size of the prawn are really pitiful. In Sarawak, we don’t eat such a small prawn, we’ll put it into dishes as side ingredients.

After dinner, we were given self activities hour. Of course it’s shopping time.

I did not get myself anything, I don’t know why, perhaps its just not my shopping mood?

We were back to Hotel around 8.30pm. The night is still young, but someone will grow older over this night.

We celebrated Robert’s birthday in his hotel room. It was suppose to be a birthday surprise, but so sorry, I spoiled their initiatives :p

Nvm, as long as everyone is happy, we did enjoy the moment!

Lastly, a closing to this post.

Our late night supper. This is is a Muslim Beef Ramen shop. Unbelievable that we found out Muslim shops in China.

We’re going to visit the most popular Long Jin Tea 龙井茶 factory tomorrow. See ya!