For folks that had been to Mt Kinabalu... You will see a famous phrase... "i see.. i climb... i conquer..." For this terra-cotta trip, it's like the chinese quote... "读万卷书,行万里路..." It meant that in the olden days, the folks had correlated learning from reading scrolls together with experiencing via voyage. It's like the right formula in their pursue for knowledge. Well, this trip had been very educational and relaxing (own time, own target). It's almost like a physical walk down the history time-line of ancient China and seeing it for yourself, how the conquerors of China build their era empire. Ironically to me, most of the historians were remembered and closely studied if they left behind magnificent architectural structure (in large scale).
Friday, January 15, 2010
古人的读万卷书、行万里路...
For folks that had been to Mt Kinabalu... You will see a famous phrase... "i see.. i climb... i conquer..." For this terra-cotta trip, it's like the chinese quote... "读万卷书,行万里路..." It meant that in the olden days, the folks had correlated learning from reading scrolls together with experiencing via voyage. It's like the right formula in their pursue for knowledge. Well, this trip had been very educational and relaxing (own time, own target). It's almost like a physical walk down the history time-line of ancient China and seeing it for yourself, how the conquerors of China build their era empire. Ironically to me, most of the historians were remembered and closely studied if they left behind magnificent architectural structure (in large scale).
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Shanghai Last Meal...
As we played safe and reached the airport quite early, we have to buy ourselves nice breakfast to compensate the early morning rise. Tuck-in!
Lambs on sticks....
we passed by.... really couldn't resist and we only 甘愿 to walk away when we each have a stick in our hands... 好吃,真好吃.... surely they do know how to BBQ well...
Best Rated Dinner...
This restaurant is ranked first in our food tasting days... mm says if there is another night in Shanghai, she would return for more... Surely, it is not just our stomachs that was captured by the chief here, there were plentiful of locals too.
we wasted no time when sitting in queue near the entrance... as we carefully flipped the deliciously photographed menu pages, our minds started to rank which items we should order for our dinner...
Fresh steaming crabby xiao-long-bao, braised meat ramen and the shop's best selling shrimp wonton swimming in hot soup topped our order list...
The steamy hot food matched our high expectation and not to mention, the "b" beverage is heavenly too...
Craving for noodles....
Hand signaling to mm that it's lunch time and we should eat before heading back to our hotel, mm replied with a nod. Once the Shanghai airport bus dropped us at the pit stop, both of us wasted no time to find the noodle shop the bus had just grazed by... the noodles were okay, not the dumpling snack... obviously it was frozen foodstuff... wei... why like that?
More Plane Food...
This trip is full of taking off and landing.... cos the MAS flight transit in KL first before reaching Shanghai. And we had the additional Xi'An leg... so all-in-all, we had about 6 pairs of taking offs and landings... The China Southern inflight meal comes with a cold bun (without butter, can someone feedback that butter is an essential please...) and a hot oriental dish... the apple chips are nice, too bad we really have no chance to grab them at the local supermarket.
Xi'An Local Specialty
Okay, one of the role of a tourist is to hit the street and try the local's specialty... as a responsible tourist, we did just that... and tried almost all the items as recommended on the book... checked, checked and checked...
Nice Dinner...
I love the egg noodles, and we went back for more.... i needed to catch the drama serial "铁齿铜牙纪晓岚4" on Beijing Channel 8.45pm, so the good plan was... Tabao!
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