Xiamen picblog ~ part 2

Hotel at Jiangzhou, provided by the "Jinmen tongbao lianyi hui" (Jinmen association at jiangzhou) This is quite a grand hotel there, consider that there are actually 7 building managed by them n there is another one building!


This is the hotel we are in.


This is the hotel interior. Not so bad loh. :)


A photo with our relatives in the hotel


The chairman of the associations.


Cake making outside the cake shop


After these, we travelled to Xiamen. And was accompanied by another association member. This time its "Association of returned overseas chinese of huli, xiamen" the vice chairman was a good friend of my mu, henc she brought us on a round the island tour in Xiamen.


Ironyly, this BIG BIG title was build facing "Jinmen" where there is another one facing Xiamen. For ur info, Jinmen is owned by Taiwan, n xiamen owned by China.


Seafood restuarant 2


"Chen Jia Gen" memorial. I like this photo, taken pretty nicely right?


More "Chen Jia Gen" momerial photos


Duck "Mee Sua" at restuarant 3. It more like herbal duck with mee sua. But they are nice!


Sumptuous meal at a my uncle house.


Two super cute black dogs in my hands! Their fur are super fluffy!!!


Tea session at another uncle house.


Tea session at another uncle house. (This one is the brother of the previous uncle)


Yet another tea session at another uncle house. lol I lost track of which uncle is it liao.


Check out this clams!!!


Cooked by my cousin, they are SUPER tasty!!!


Suspension bridge at night

Backdates from Xiamen (Picblog) ~ part 1

Seems like i am in a blogging frenzy now, so i might as well backdate a few entries that i missed before.

Xiamen trip. Supposed to show some pictures n here there are!

Day 1

Boarding the plane


This is our plane, MI922, small hor!


Xiamen airport, those three are actually used to transport the luggages


Getting closer to Xiamen's first suspension bridge


Xiamen "Hai Chang Da Ciao"

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My "Ah Pek n Ma" (Uncle n Auntie)


My "2 n 3 Biaojie" (2nd n 3rd Cousin)


Interesting fish. Notice the flat face on one side.


Seafood restuarant 1. Display of the fishes


Seafood restuarant 1. Display of the greens n soup



Seafood restuarant 1. Display of the VIP room. Seems that all restuarant have lots of VIP rooms there.


Clams dish 1. Tried better similar dishes at the banquent on the next day. But they do look nice. :)


Clams dish 2. If u think this is nice, wait till u see how my cousin cook his!


Walmart at Jiangzhou. Notice the capital retail. i wonder if its owned by singapore???

Food Food AND FOOD!!!!

Went to eat at warraku wif my mum at starhub building after seeing a sinseh to massage my sprained back and massage my mum's arms. Initial i tot its a traditional jap restuarant that my sis brought me to few years back. I still rem the place where we were the only two local people around and we were packed with jap expatriates. Even the menu were in jap, we could only order those that we know from other jap restuarant. But the meal was hearty n well prepared. :)

This one at Warraku, was a bit on the huge side. The serving were huge... No i mean the plates n bowls they use were huge.

Check out the bowl on my mum's left!


The food wasnt really that fantastic too. Though i like the tomato cream udon. The udon was very very tanggy. I like the "kou gan" in the mouth. *Yummy* The rest were jus ok, even though i ordered the interesting leaf grill. Where there is a piece of dried brown leaf over the flame as u cook ur meat over bean paste. In the end we got tough beef in tasteless bean paste.

In the evening, i m supposed to go for classes. After being hypnotised by xiaomei n company, i skipped class n join them for dinner at liang seah street.... *OMG... Somebody gonna kill me... T_T*

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Look how much SHI* we put into the steamboat!

its actually the first time i eat steamboat like this. Usually i would use the chopsticks n dip em hot 1by1. This time, so much is thrown into the bowl that i can feel the flame saying "OMG! dun put in to much food! U gonna overwork me!"

Dim Sum Dollies missed....

OMG!!! I miss the show of dim sum dollies this week! Jus got to know from patrik's blog that the show is on, check sistic n its all fully booked! T_T

Watched the last dimsum n was fully entertained! From that day onwards, i pledge to watch the rest of their shows. When the initial news release of the dimsum working on the history of singapore really intrigued me! But that time was too early to make a booking. So i tot i could wait for the show dates to get closer before booking. I wasnt expect it to start so soon, n now i have missed a great show... T_T

Mariners gathering at suntec

Meet a few of my poly friends at suntec on sat. Some long time nvr see friends like ah bee, sohpia n aipei is here too!

The gang of mariners at swensens


KTV at Kbox


Our star singer! "Jing kou nan kai" A rare occasion that honkiang sings. lol


The flowers of the lot. :)


Singing 'One night in beijing' Leonard, Ryan n Linus

Makan trip with big bear n xiaomei

jus got back from a incredible makan trip with big bear, xiaomei and sean. Why did i say incredible, first of all, i have already mentioned my fattening xiamen trip that i went last week. Its already very sinful le. Then last friday, i went to brazilian churasiria with big bear and sean. Then today... Omg... I wonder if my mum will reconigise me when i got home later. Lol.

Ok, continue my posting. So wat did we had first... After travelling for almost 45mins, with four growling tummies (dun know if theirs are growling, but mine sure is!!!), we reached our first makan place. "Kan Lao" mee at some deserted place. Pls pardon my descriptions to the place coz i m totally directionless after Pelangi. Its another 15mins drive from there. Mee was almost like wantan noodles, but with darker mees. Seems to taste of dark soya sauce (tiger brand one if i m not wrong) n some dark sweet sauce. Something that u will put in ur "soon kwek". (i think she uses xinxin brand sweet sauce). Soup, using maggi chicken stock, with "dou peh" n very nice "tou fu" stuffed with meat. Soup is a bit high on MSG. not really to my liking. lol.

Next we had duck across the road. A small coffee shop with a few chicks n ducks on the display window. We decided to chop half of half (1/4 la...) duck. For nine rinngit its cheap but the taste is jus so so. I believe the one at bukit batok is definately better. :)

After this we travelled another 10mins to find 'Master chef' restuarant. But when we reach there its closed... So we headed to another one called 'Chef papa' which ironically is close too. (Does that means great food are alwasy served late?)

Went to Pelangi to get bigbear (BB) n xiaomei (XM) wedding cards. End up we ate Secret recipe. Although i wanted to try the 'hot stones' restuarant which seem pretty nice. Each of us actually got a main dish n one cake. End up we had cordon blue, lamb shank, marcoroni, n lasagne. Served later we had, choc banana, white choc macadenmia, cuppacino chesse n brownie with ice cream. End up we were super full when we walked out.


Preparing ourselves to attack the four cakes

After a short shopping n hide n seek game with sean, we wnt to Holiday Inn Plaza. Wanted to get pirated software coz my comp have been buggy after since i tried to download some programs n cracks. T_T But XM dun wan, worried we will kanna inspection... So end up we were at holiday inn.... EATING!

Went to 'Wang kok' HK tea house. N got huge drinks for our self, while waiting for sean to appear from hair cuts. The drinks were intereesting n the food too. We had another two dishes like this "bak hu" dumpling we had. taste nice. Nowadays getting lesser "bak hu" products le. After last time bread talk first start out its branded bread.




Some of the things we ate at HK cafe.

After 'Wang kok' is bowling. Play without my shoes n balls n actually got a good score of 161. (Maybe i should give up playing with my house ball. Almost wanted to get a pair of shoes too. lol. lucky nvr if not sure ganna scold one. lol.

After bowling, we went to our last destination, er... some hawker centre near pelangi. Got claypot rice, even "huger" sugar cane juice. (Check photo)


The claypot wasnt that great. Think the one at ABC market sure must try. Then we had "zhu fang fen and satay. Got even fullier!

After finish we quickly get to the lorry checkpoint. Its a new road for me. N seems that quite a number of singapore cars know too. Turn out its not that super duper fast. waited auite a while before we got back.

*burp

Still need some time to let my food inside study. lol