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Views of Suzhou...

While we were around Suzhou, both the lead tour guide and the native Suzhou tour guide keep on boasting how pretty and beautiful the ladies here , and in fact, Suzhou is famous for pretty girls. Well, they mentioned in the ancient times, the Kings usually summon Suzhou maidens to the palace as well as the Empress Qi Shi, one of the four beautiful ladies in ancient times, was from Suzhou. So, I get ready my camera to click .... and in the end, I took more pictures of the city instead, which was so mesmerizing. Nicknamed, the Venice of The East, Suzhou really have a lot of canals and it's a beautiful city. Of course, not just the ladies, even the guys here seems to have beautiful complexion. Well, maybe I should take a sabbatical four months leave and stay here... hahaha...

Shopping around in Suzhou's Guanqian Street, which is the heart of the city's commerce centre


The street was very clean and it was crowded on a week-day evening at 4pm

Love the shops and stores here

Some beautiful statues depicting  the older days

Another view of Suzhou Guanqian street. It was so clean there!! And, its cold walking under 3 celsius to 8 celsius.

I can't stop taking pictures around ... 

Probably I don't think we can finished covering the entire shopping belt in an evening

An intrinsic and beautiful temple in the midst of the shopping belt

Street food along the way ...

Another side of the huge shopping square


A mixed of modern and ancient buildings there
 We went for dinner nearby and I love the beautiful night scenes along the canals!



Around here, we had their famous Suzhou Ramen along one of the restaurants near the river banks.

It was a crowded restaurant

They first served all the ingredients and it's cold. 

Then, comes the hot ramen and pour all the ingredients onto the ramen to make it hot.

And, it's ready to serve!
 After that, we left for the famous and beautiful LED light display at their 'bird-nest', a replica of the Beijing 'bird nest' Olympic Stadium. It was nice seeing the colourful LED lights turn to various colours on a cold and dark night. Yes, it was very cold that night, I think it could have reached 0 celsius.


I like Suzhou! Hope to visit their other attractions next time!

26 comments:

  1. You sure went to a lot of places at one go. Not for me, old man - would be very tiring. I prefer slow and easy holidays, just relax - no need to go here and there, see lots of things and places.

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    1. Yes, it's an intense pack trip on 9 days where we traveled around the jiangnam area. Ok la, we rested a lot in the coach which traveling from place to place.

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  2. Or maybe see if your company requires any outstation in Suzhou, then can go there and stay there during the outstation period, hehe...

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  3. I can see the surroundings are very clean unlike Shenzhen. I never want to go back again..ahhaha

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    1. I am surprise it is so clean over there , even Hangzhou , Haining , Nanjing, yiwu and the neighboring cities too!

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  4. I like the night view, the LED light display the one, is this just four colors on the display or they have more else?

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    1. There are around 6 colors of I'm not wrong . Yes it's beautiful and better to watch live there.

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  5. yeah, it is said that Suzhou produces the most beauty, but i wonder if this is still a valid statement now?? so you were most excited about visiting Suzhou la right?? hehehe, while your wife and kids were walking ahead of you (which you purposely did), you can watch beautiful girls walking along the street like a pervert, muahahahaha :p

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    1. Hahaha.. Not pervert la, click around like a gentleman and tourist. The beauty thingy I guess all originated from the Empress Xi Shi and ancient times.

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  6. the streets look very clean and the air also fresh, unlike many polluted big cities in China.. and errr, i think the streets were not that packed if you compare with other cities and especially relative to the population of China?? so did you go shopping in any of the stores there??

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    1. Yes, I went to some shops and mostly got winter wear , street food and souvenirs.

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  7. oolala, ramen!! that must be your favorite meal during the trip huh?? interesting way of cooking, they prepared the noodles and hot soup and dump in all the ingredients.. looks good and flavorful and then great to prepare you to go to see the LED lights show at the Suzhou "Bird's Nest" huh??

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    1. Yes, the ramen was good. The noodles was springy and delicious! You are right , we went to bird nest after that.

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  8. Sounds like you're having a wonderful holiday, Chris! ^^

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  9. So many things to see and they have ramen! So, were the girls pretty? hee..hee...

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    1. Frankly , they are the same as in Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai .. Etc. there are mixed of pretty ladies and handsome guys but I must said their complexion is good !

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  10. Last time I went to Suzhou, I didnt get to see these city lights...

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    1. Probably it was not built then? When was it ?

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  11. Place looks clean and neat, unlike what I usually see in papers that China is quite dirty? I guess depends on areas la right?

    The LED thingy is impressive!

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    1. Yes , I was fascinated on how clean it was , not just Suzhou but Hangzhou and the rest too!!
      Yeah , all of us impressed by the light displayed !

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  12. I scaled all over Suzhou but I didn't walk along these shopping streets. I heard the folks saying that all the pretty gals have gone to work in big cities now. Those were written in historical legends that the pretty maidens were from there. You seem to like the cold weather too! That's the best time to visit China when it's not summer. I went to Beijing once and the end of summer was even hotter than KL. I was roasted like char siew.

    The nightly LED display looks impressive and I am proud to say that China is moving ahead in this world. In different cities, they would have something to make our jaws dropped. Your next visit should be Chengdu!

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    1. Well , I guess similar case to Ipoh where all pretty ladies went to cities to work .. Lol. Yes, I love cold weather though it's a bit of work to put on so many layers of clothing. Even my kids too, they seems to feel healthier in cold weather, no sneezing and eczema.
      The summer there is very punishing ! Super hot , that's what I heard and it can go up to 40 Celsius !

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  13. The streets are very clean. Any handsome chap in Suzhou?

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  14. I know why you love Suzhou. The city, the food and beautiful ladies. ^^

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