Sunday, August 10, 2008

Guangzhou - Sneak Peek (1)



If Guangzhou is your next Holiday destination, make sure to stay longer than two nights. You can't see & do much in 2 Nites 1 Day. Really, not in Guangzhou. Either for shopping and/or sightseeing you need longer than 2 nites. Guangzhou is big. Ten districts and two county-level cities. Its tourist attractions are located in different district, not that many but still worth going & seeing. I personally would love to visit Huaisheng Mosque, built 1,300 years ago, said to be one of the oldest mosque in the world. But sayang seribu kali sayang, Not enough TIME!

We stayed in Hotel Lido, Guangzhou downtown city. 3 star hotel, very strategically located, popular by tourists. There are two Halal restaurants nearby. First row, right turning as you exit from the hotel. Deli Restaurant -(Indian), the other one ( I forgot the name), Chinese. They are just one shop away from each other. Food-taste wise, fine with me. Pricewise-reasonably cheap for its 'size'!.

Ha..ha..ha. You guys should take note of this - their food serving meant to be shared 'beramai-ramai'. Not like here at home, per plate/per person. We (Sitti, Meherun & me) each ordered fried mee, priced at CNY20 (or RM7.50), the cheapest on the menu. Imagine how shocked we were when the three plates arrived & laid on our table. One plate!- enough to feed 3 people!, and we..hahaha burst into laughter...3 plates!! The group seated next to us pun ''jeling2 senyum2". No wonder why every tables has these small plates arrangement, you are supposed to use that as your 'piring makan'...hehehe. Did we use that small plate? Nope! Did we send back the two plates? Nope!... We could have just shared one plate & 'tapau' the other two, but we chose to have Fried Mee Fiesta instead...heheh. Of course there were leftovers ( a lot), membazir? ya..but Sitti did 'Tapau' hers.

Anyway, the mee was slightly tasteless so I asked for "laa jiao" (Chili), oh ya.. I can speak Mandarin you know, 'E Tian-Tian" (sikit2). He looked confused though tambah lagi si Meherun asked for Chili Potong (in Malay). I kept saying "laa" (pedas)..he nodded his head & walked off. 5 minutes later he came back with fried sambal chili..Not bad uh? The sambal was nice & not too hot. This was at the Chinese restaurant, our 'brunch'. The next day after we arrived from Zhuhai.

The night we arrived from Zhuhai, we had our dinner/supper at Deli's. The three of us jugak. Nel & Carol went on their own. One thing good here, the owner speaks English. So no language barrier!. We had rice + curry chicken + veggie. While the boss advised us to take the 'S' bowl/plate for both curry & veggie, He didn't say anything when we asked for 3 rice. Maybe he thought these 3 tourists must be really hungry (almost 10 p.m). Nasi datang! whhatt? Basar jugak! Mana tidak they use dish serving bowl, yg muat ikan kerapu saiz M. Three bowls of that bowl. Anyway, we ended up sharing one bowl of rice (We asked for 'piring kosong'). We told him we can't take all three, too much. Luckily he didn't mind & took the two bowls away.

Quite funny experience we had uh?....... nanti sambung lagi. I am actually quite busy these days. With reports & meetings....and in between, busy finding ways to tag picture! You see, I now know how to create collage of pics, I want to tag them. So I & U know what & where...

1 comment:

fabmom said...

interesting..interesting..cerita lagi..!