Quick trip to China
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elusivekIt's Saturday, my friend wanted to take me out to China to a mall that she had newly discovered, so off we went today. It was a bit tough for me because there was a huge queue for the "Foreigners" line in immigration going into China. I queued for almost an hour. My poor friend had to wait for me for that long.
I was pretty gutsy to agree to go to someplace in China far away enough to merit taking the bus. It was an almost 1-hour ride away!
Anyway, with all that queueing at immigration and that bus ride, it was lunch already when we arrived the mall. So we walked briefly through the mall and headed up to a restaurant first.
Again, we had to wait for a bit for a table, but it was overall not bad at all.
After we ordered, we noticed we ordered mostly vegetarian... veggies... a braised beancurd thing, cooked beancurd sheets, and a sweet beancurd. We decided to throw in a grilled squid in the end so that we're not just having beancurd...
So that mall had a Fashion Week event going on, and they had everything set up really nicely. Princess pink, a temporary gazebo of sorts, flowers, and all just very pink! To have a part of their entertainment program a chef showing you how to gut a fish. I did not stay to watch, hahaha!
We hung around for a bit but eventually found out there wasn't really much to do and see in this mall. I still prefer the other mall that's nearer to the border.
So we made that almost 1-hour bus ride back to the border, I managed to buy a pair of really cheap sneakers for dog walking. I also decided to get a cheese cake from a bakery, and got some yoghurt drink thingies to take away. But before we crossed the border, we went to get Chinese sweet soup (pictured above is sesame and walnut sweet soup) as our final dessert and made our way back to Macau. By the time I reached home, it was 6pm already, well, time to walk the dogs, and I can make use of my new cheap sneakers!
I was pretty gutsy to agree to go to someplace in China far away enough to merit taking the bus. It was an almost 1-hour ride away!
Anyway, with all that queueing at immigration and that bus ride, it was lunch already when we arrived the mall. So we walked briefly through the mall and headed up to a restaurant first.
Again, we had to wait for a bit for a table, but it was overall not bad at all.
After we ordered, we noticed we ordered mostly vegetarian... veggies... a braised beancurd thing, cooked beancurd sheets, and a sweet beancurd. We decided to throw in a grilled squid in the end so that we're not just having beancurd...
So that mall had a Fashion Week event going on, and they had everything set up really nicely. Princess pink, a temporary gazebo of sorts, flowers, and all just very pink! To have a part of their entertainment program a chef showing you how to gut a fish. I did not stay to watch, hahaha!
We hung around for a bit but eventually found out there wasn't really much to do and see in this mall. I still prefer the other mall that's nearer to the border.
So we made that almost 1-hour bus ride back to the border, I managed to buy a pair of really cheap sneakers for dog walking. I also decided to get a cheese cake from a bakery, and got some yoghurt drink thingies to take away. But before we crossed the border, we went to get Chinese sweet soup (pictured above is sesame and walnut sweet soup) as our final dessert and made our way back to Macau. By the time I reached home, it was 6pm already, well, time to walk the dogs, and I can make use of my new cheap sneakers!
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Date: 2019-03-29 14:04 (UTC)The more watery variety are sweet dumplings - you cook some sweet dumplings in water with ginger and rock sugar.
Talking about all that is making me hungry!