Hello from Chaozhou 潮州

[elusivek]

Sorry for not interacting much. Life has been busy after my office move. I do need to commute by bus but it’s like a 6-minute ride across the bridge to get to the island and then I’m back to walking, so I don’t really have much time to check on messages and stuff on the bus.

Then our HR had a weird policy change. Without going into actual details, the gist of it is, we get to work less hours and we get more holidays. Like yesterday, All Soul’s Day, it’s a public holiday but not a statutory holiday. We used to only get statutory holidays (10-days yearly), but the policy change now lets us have all the public holidays (20-days yearly). And we now work 45-hour weeks instead of 50. It’s weird.

So with this long weekend, I’m off to China, went on that super rail thing and am in a place called Chaozhou 潮州. They say that’s where a lot of the good food is. So far I’m not disappointed. Last night we had 2 dinners LOL. First to a beef hot pot place (had a weird dish, don’t even know which part of the beef it was), and then went for a second dinner of raw marinated fish.

Dinner #1


Dinner #2


The hotel I’m staying at is right in front of the West Lake 西湖 so I can do a bit of walking and looking around too.

The only down side is I bought a China SIM card and it worked for a few hours, but then it didn’t work, darn it. I’m going back to that shop when I’m back in town to complain about that but it’s China, I think they’re gonna play some kind of hooky on me.

Anyway, that aside, it’s gonna be more food today!

Comments

[notte0.livejournal.com]

Oh, it’s nothing like sashimi. It’s marinated and slightly air dried, and when you eat it, you mix the slices of fish with condiments, herbs, garlic, and either sauce or oil. It was good, first time ever trying that.