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12.4.18 China Trip 2017 - Guangzhou # 4 - Cruising along Pearl River

The last itinerary for my 5-day trip to Southern China was a cruise along the famous Pearl River or affectionately known as 'Chu Kong' to the older generations. It was the third longest river in China and I visited the huge river earlier at Zhuhai where I took a few pictures along the banks. Well, this time, we were taken to night cruise along the Pearl River to enjoy the night scenery of Guangzhou. I was very amazed by how developed the city was as there were beautifully designed high-rise buildings along both sides of the river.

A view of one of the modern cruise ship

Inside the cruise, it was fully carpet with free drinks served as well as free shows and an auction event of calligraphy arts.

Picturesque view of high rise office buildings while cruising

They seems purposely changing the colors of the lights

Another view of the river

Passing along the beautifully lit up Haiyin Bridge

The Canton Tower, where the cruise move nearer and nearer to it until we got a good view of it. The colors of the tower kept changing to give us a nice show while the cruise stand still for a while nearest to the tower. I even saw the lift speeding up to the higher levels.

The amazing Liede bridge, with the oval shape supporter that make it unique. We were actually cruising under both bridges and we seems so near to the 'ceiling' below the bridge while passing by.

It was really great to be able to enjoy the cruise and night scenery.

After the cruise, it's time to say good-bye to Guangzhou as our tour bus headed for the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. Our flight was at 3am and we waited a while at the airport.

Getting ready to go home, directly back to JB.

Snapping pics around the airport

It's kinda quiet at those hours

Overall, it was a great trip especially my ancestors hailed from this part of the world and I thought 5 days were quite short and how nice if the trip can be 7 or 8 days like my previous year-end trips. The tour group was also a small one which makes it less complicated as most of the folks there were a friendly lot!

Pix for a souvenir!

We reached Senai International Airport around 6am+ . Will be looking forward to my next vacation!

9.2.18 China Trip 2017 - Shunde

ChrisAu 12:00 AM China , China; Foshan; 13 Comments

I was glad I got a chance to visit my ancestral home, which is Panyu in Guangzhou. In fact, my parents hailed from there and I never felt so good to be able to step onto the city. Though it was just to visit some jade factory on a shopping itinerary, I was excited to be there and was on a lookout for some 'Au' (my surname) family kampung, just like a kid...LOL

I was surprise too to see some of the home-cooked food served there are quite similar to those that my mom cooked. So, there's a history behind my mom's cooking, she inherited the local food there and brought over to Malaysia. And, I guess the same too for all the moms who came from there.

I bought this milk candy from a shop there nearby. I have opened it before I snap the pix..LOL It tasted like those 'ting ting' candies sold in the peninsular.

Next the tour bus took us to Shunde, which was nearby Panyu, and a district in Foshan City. We visited FengJiang Village, which was an old village with a river cutting through it. I heard this place was turn into a tourist attraction recently, and the riverside was busy with lots of stores and hawkers selling food and souvenirs.

Greeted by salted fish hanging over the cold , dry air to be dried

Beautiful statues at the river side

You can pay for a boat ride along the river

Ginger Beancurd...I love it. There was a lot of ginger in it!!

A part of the river with boats waiting for the customers to board

A walk around the village. It was an eye-opener to visit old villages there compared to those bustling cities

Kids and teens painting along the river while adults relaxing there

Love this herbal pork meat. It tasted really good, I want to try again! Yummy!!

Yours truly ready to spar ... LOL

26.2.16 Vending Machines in China .....

ChrisAu 12:00 AM China , 32 Comments

I remember I read a post wrote by a blogger where he lamented the lack of choices in most of the local vending machines in KL compared to Bangkok and Japan. Well, I was curious when I saw vending machines in China as I wonder what drinks they will offered. I took one at West Lake in Hangzhou and another one at a shopping mall, which I forgot where is it.

They seems offered the same popular drinks like Pepsi and other soft drinks but then , they do have a variety of local drinks which seems differ between the two. So, I thought, well, not that bad, at least they do have some varieties. LOL

Vending Machine A

Vending Machine B

Oh... I was a little disappointed where I had my last bowl of ramen at a shopping centre nearby, where I used to have it almost weekly in the past. Well, they have closed down, maybe moving to another mall and thus, there goes my ramen fix. Though there's a sakae sushi outlet which sells ramen too , I still find this restaurant's ramen is more authentic. I had this bowl of shio tonkotsu ramen last Thursday. *sob* Their nearest outlet is at the far west of SG, in Jurong Point Mall.