I apologise for the freaking long post before this… haha… no idea why I suddenly felt in the mood to type some essay-like blog entry… probably coz it was the first entry and there seemed to be so much to share about my china trip so far… well, most of it is like journaling for myself to keep track of what I’ve experienced here in china, so if it bores you to tears, just click on the cross on the top right hand corner of the window? =P
ok, this morning… I reported at my company's shanghai office, and met with various personnel, quite a couple of them were Singaporeans. So anyway, remember I said I was SUPPOSED to take a train from shanghai to nanjing? I took the car instead coz I was warned that it’d be very troublesome to take the train carrying all the luggage, and it isn’t easy to get around the shanghai train station. And yah, imagine us getting robbed of all our luggage on the first day, and having to return to Singapore on the very next day… haha… (that’ll be nice actually… =P)
before traveling to nanjing, my mom & I had a fabulous lunch at a nice Chinese restaurant serving Cantonese dishes! Really superb food! The best meal we’ve had at shanghai so far… we had roasted goose, durian puffs, char siew puffs, etc… check out my online album at http://picasaweb.google.com/celest8787 for more mouth-watering pics! Haha…
烧鹅 roasted goose meat
凤爪chicken claws
榴莲酥 durian puff
生煎汤包
叉烧酥 char siew puff
Arrival in Nanjing...
anyway, the car journey from shanghai to nanjing took around 4+hrs! gosh… butt pain… checked into a hotel coz our apt was not ready yet… boy was I glad that there was internet access in the room, allowing me to keep in contact with friends and family even while in nanjing! =)
as it was really late, around 9pm, by the time we checked in, we asked the hotel staff where we could go to get dinner at this late hour… they suggested 新民路which was basically a street with some roadside stalls and small restaurants… we randomly chose a more decent-looking one, and it was quite a good choice! =P a type of local dish that’s popular is 干锅小炒 (claypot dishes). So my mom & I tried the chicken one, and it was really nice! There was quite a lot of dried chilli, so those who don’t take spicy food probably wouldn’t be able to try it without gulping down a few glasses of tea or water… the special thing about this dish is that after you finish the stuff in the claypot (which contains some gravy), you ask the staff to add this soup/broth into the claypot, and you can order various side dishes to add to the claypot soup & eat it steamboat-style! So the fire’ll still be burning and you’ll just wait for your side dishes to cook! We ordered mushrooms & vege to add to the claypot after finishing the chicken meat, and to save us time, the staff decided to cook the side dishes in the claypot for us in the kitchen! It was really tasty!! yay… was initially worried that it wouldn’t suit our taste… but glad that it was nice… we didn’t regret going there… =P
鸡肉煲 chicken meat claypot
after adding soup to the claypot...
mom after a satisfying meal... =P
oh, forgot to add that I bought my first jap drama dvd there! Haha… cant rmb the title… I’ll most prob have tonnes of time to watch it when I need to self-entertain in my NJ apartment… >_<
juz added a photo of the jap drama i bought... =)
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