7 Days in China...

The trip on 19th to 25th of Feb to Hangzhou, Shanghai and Suzhou was fantastic..
Sis and bro-in-law went to Hangzhou a day earlier than me and my younger sis..
We met at Hangzhou Airport on 19th Feb - night

Upon arrival, the temperature there was about 3 degreeC..

Luckily we wore our LongJohn on the plane but we stil felt the extreme weather..

Almost can't breathe =P

After settled down ourselves, there's nothing much we can do except hunting for FOODS since it was bout 11pm when we reached the hotel...

Hangzhou is popular with its lotus roots, tong po meat, beggar chicken, steam sweet & sour cod fish and we got to eat all these yummy delicious heaven foods there...

Second day in Hangzhou - we went to West Lake before we caught a train to Shanghai in the afternoon..

West LakeIn the train to Shanghai.

Came across an advertisement board which i found that it's quite interesting..

Edison and Nicholas?? =P

In Shanghai, our hotel is just behind the buzy street, Nanjing Road..

Hence, it's so convenience for us to shop and no worries for FOODs...

4 of us...
Sisters...

Shopping!!

At night, we met up with sis's fren, Frances for dinner in Shanghai.. She brought us to eat Shanghai SzeChuan cuisine.. It's so original and the food there was affordable.. 6 of us, 12 dishes cost us bout 300RMB only, means bout rm138!!
As Szechuan international reputation for being hot and numbing, because of the common ingredient Szechuan peppercorn (Fagara), im shocked and almost choke to death when i took a big sip of the soup with this Fagara...

lotus roots

hot pot mushroom fish soup with fagara


our dinner!!

Nanjing Road is also located near the Puxi and Pudong (West and East of Huangpu River) where the Pearl Oriental TV Tower of Shanghai is located..

The tunnel from Puxi to Pudong


Pearl Oriental TV Tower

As planned, we celebrated our 15th day of Chinese Lunar New Year in Shanghai...

Yuan Garden is the Best!



Shanghai Cute little baby...

Never experience this great celebration before in my life! I really love the chinese celebration there..

In Yuan Garden, we also got to eat the best and original Shanghai Xioa Long Paos..
Remember this restaurant when you’re in Shanghai, Nanxiang Mantou Dian (南翔饅頭店)
This is the shop that invented xiao long baos and you will always find a crazy mad line of people at the take-out window waiting to buy 16 xioa long baos for 12RMB which is just rm5.52!! Crazy right..

We are too desperate for the paus and lazy to go for the line so we decided to go upstairs for the deluxe version.. =P
As we sat on the table, we are informed that minimum order for each of us will be 25RMB, 4 of us.. 100RMB for 3 baskets of the paos.. each basket consists only 6 paos…

We had pork, crab roe and prawn xiao long paos…
Conclusion : 18paos for 100RMB = rm46..

Fuyoooooohhh….


Sis and bro-in-law = thumbs up!!

Bro-in-law was so unsatisfied with the price and amount of paos...

So, he went for the line downstairs before we left that place…
Our stomach was bloated with XIAO LONG PAOS coz he bought...

16paos x 2packets = 32paos = 24RMB = rm11.04…

So satisfied!!! Hahaha…

The 4th and 5th day of our trip was at Suzhou..

It is so true that Suzhou is famed for its beautiful gardens and traditional waterside architecture and also has been called both the Venice and the Paris of the East...

No ideo why this cuttie pie run towards me and paused for a moment with this look.. i stopped the puppy in english but it ran away... my sis told me that im in CHINA, so, the puppy dont understand what am i talking! tisk tisk tisk...

Well, the rest of the days, we went back to Hangzhou...

While waiting sis and bro-in-law in a bookstore in Hangzhou...

In Hangzhou, we surely back for the Hangzhou famous Tong Po meat and other super delicious dishes...

Yes, we tried it all!!

Tong Po Meat

Lotus rootsMa Po Toufu which only cost 3RMB = rm1.38.. believe it o not? =P

Steam sweet and sour cod fish

Beggar's chicken

We also visited lots of places of interest in Hangzhou..

LeiFeng Pagoda..

BlackCorn =PLongJing Tea plantation... best tea in china? but don't really like it.. taste like green tea =P

West Lake

6.30pm at West Lake

This free and easy trip was super fun and good experience for me...

Thank you papa and mama.. and also bro-in-law and sis for the kind arrangement...

Thank you sista's fren, Frances for the guidance in Shanghai...

and..

I surely won't forgot the feeling of missing my family when i was in China for 7 days....

=P

cheers!!!