Shanghai-Jiang Nan 8 Days Trip [DAY 2 - PART 1]

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Let's the story continues, the ep. 2 is here. The 2nd day of tour.
24th of December 2009.
We woke up at 6.30am after a long sleep on the previous day. After had our buffet-style breakfast at the hotel, we continued our journey.
We went to ChengHuang Temple market(城隍庙集市). In China, they use the word '庙' to indicate a crowded and famous place. Eg, 夫子庙街 etc.









Wow.. i like their super-big-delicious soup dumpling so much. Have to use straw to suck the soup/gravy inside.




Mum and dad. So handsome. =)




Fake Terra Catta Warriors.



Old folks gathering.

ROAR: They sang, danced and chit-chat, happy or upset is up to themselves, we shall learn from them.

Another Shanghai XiaoLongPao(小笼包 soup dumpling) stall. From the long queue in the photo, u shall know how tasty were they.

Thanks for grandpa for queuing up to buy 小笼包 for us. =)

小笼包. i ate 3 of them. There's only one sentence could describe the way to eat these 小笼包 : 'bite, squirt and taste.'

Rushing to get one! Everyone was just couldn't resists the temptation of mini 小笼包.

Finally, my mum got one for herself!! 1..2..3.. um~um~ delicious!!
Model shoot session. My mum willing to be my part time model after ate 2 Shanghainese dumplings.




Well, she's not eligible to be the model yet. =(
Then, we continued roaming around and found some weird foods.

Fried Sparrows, no doubt. ==



Sizzling renowned 臭豆腐. I believe that many people thought that 臭豆腐 were made with some awful stuffs but in facts, they made them through the process of fermentation. Refers to Form 4 Biology text book, anaerobic respiration of plants. =)

Beefs and 'organs',　牛杂.

People.

I could still remember the '淫佬' asked that lady '一晚多少钱？' ==

Afterward, we paid a visit to 天脉翡翠博览中心, a place where the salesmen/saleswomen were very annoying...



My sister.

'BiXiu' 貔貅. The instructor explained it thoroughly but still very complicated...


Chinese are very selfish. It said to be by touching the BiXiu (貔貅), he/she will gain good luck. BUT, after touching them, we have to put our hands into our pocket and bring back home.


周文王,named Ji Chang (姬昌) was the founder of 风水,八卦 and bla bla bla... I have forgotten what did the instructor told us.
They asked us to buy the 貔貅 in order to gain luck, they still said I'm potential to be leader. But of course we didn't bought. ==


People there applying environmental-friendly way of living. They use battery to generate electricity for their motorbike instead of using fuel, which is bad to our beloved earth.
After that, we went to 苏州.

Before that, let me introduce the local guide of 苏州 - 陈明. To be continued...
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