General Thread on China

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After dinner went for an hour river cruise on the Yangtze rive in Wuhan

Terminal

Scenes

 

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This morning before leaving for the train station we went to a local joint for breakfast with locals instead of breakfast in the hotel

Simply great atmosphere with the local people and the smell of the food was fantastic

Preparing noodles

Making pan fried buns

Local delicacy, pan fry bean curd wrapping glutinous rice

Breakfast

 

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On Sunday we took a train from Wuhan to Wuxi

We then travelled to a small city known as Jingjiang, was a very nice hotel

 

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On Monday after work took a train from Changzhou to Hangzhou arriving late checked into Sofitel by the World famous West Lake.

Too tired to go anywhere so called room service. Club sandwich really don't look gpod

Breakfast next morning

 

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Lunch on Tuesday at Yuhang by the Yunhe river

 

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In the evening of Tuesday after work we went to West Lake for dinner at a famous restaurant serving traditional Hangzhou cuisine, Lou Wai Lou.

Restaurant

By West Lake

 

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So here's the traditional Hangzhou cuisine

Boiled prawns in Longjin tea

Egg soup

Braised bean curd

DongBoRou - braised pork belly

Close up

Pakchoy

Tofu with crab roe

Beggar's chicken

Fried bean curd

 

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West Lake

 

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Wednesday went to Ningbo and then rushed to Quzhou.

Quzhou is an ancient city its known half of the Confucious clan moved to this city during the Warring state period anyway its more than a thousand years ago. Its scenic too with many mountains and big city people flock here for vacation especially during summer. Obviously we do not have the luxury of time to travel so just make do with the time we have in the old part of the city which still has a part of the ancient wall preserved

Went to a traditional Quzhou restaurant nearby

 

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Now the dinner

Green beans with prawns

Pear soup

Local staple food, rice cake

Tofu

Fish

Pork ribs

Glutinous rice in lotus leaf

Egg dumplings

The meal

 

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Indian flipping prata cannot be compared to this chinaman flipping 37 cookies

 

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Nice laser show in Quzhou

 

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Took a nice walk alone the Bund of Shanghai last night

Bangkok Bank in the middle

 

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Went to my favourite xiao long bao restaurant in Shanghai for breakfast this morning - Jia Jia Tang Bao 佳家汤包.

The street Huang He Lu

The queue, yes got to be patient

Shop

Making the xiaolongbao

Egg seaweed soup

Crab meat and pork xiaolongbao

Prawn and pork xiaolongbao

Crab meat xiaolongbao

Simply delicious crab meat xiaolongbao so soupy inside

Went to the Yu Garden for a walk after breakfast

 

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Went to my favourite xiao long bao restaurant in Shanghai for breakfast this morning - Jia Jia Tang Bao 佳家汤包.

The street Huang He Lu

The queue, yes got to be patient

Shop

Making the xiaolongbao

Egg seaweed soup

Crab meat and pork xiaolongbao

Prawn and pork xiaolongbao

Crab meat xiaolongbao

Simply delicious crab meat xiaolongbao so soupy inside

Went to the Yu Garden for a walk after breakfast

That Xiao Long pao is the best ...nothing compares to it.

 

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That Xiao Long pao is the best ...nothing compares to it.

the reddish xiao long pao filling mixed with crab meat during crab season is da best. anywhere in shaghai when you "turn on the tap you get pork soup".

 

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Arriving in Shanghai on Saturday was put up at this historical hotel with classic rooms

Straight to one of my fav restaurants in Shanghai, an Hunan cuisine restaurant

 

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The dishes

Stir fry sour beans

Marinated chicken

Chili tofu

Mutton with chili

Mapo tofu

Ribs in spices

Map's pork belly

Prawns with spices

 

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Be careful with the spicy rib at DSD ...I had my worst food poisoning after a meal there. I suspect it was the ribs, possibly not fully cooked. I love the mapo tofu more than the ribs.

 

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Had a fast food lunch tastefully designed Chinese noodle restaurant on Sunday, He Fu 和府.

Decorarion really looks like a library with real books and customers encourage to take a book to read while enjoying Chinese noodles. Really love the zen design

Bamboo shoots noodle

Beef noodle

Peanuts

Braised tofu and eggs

Fried chicken