I am a Teochew just like my parents and grandparents, but all my life, I did not manage to visit my grandpa's homeland until early this month. It is made more easy with Jetstar Asia opening up a new direct flight from Singapore to Shantou Airport.
In fact, it was so easy that even my little toddler niece, Shiya, managed to tag along with her grandparents on this trip!
Our travel agent was very mindful that after the flight,we should be very hungry. Therefore, its very nice of them to get us straight to a traditional Teochew Restaurant(yes,that is the name of the restaurant after translation) for lunch 1st thing we got out of the airport.
It was a very simple meal of porridge with braised goose meat, preserved vegetables, salted eggs and oyster omelette. I was very hungry and rushing to devour my food, so not much pictures on food in this travel to share here.
The destination after lunch was to go walk about in a garden..I will call it the 'Rock Garden' for easy reference..
Of course, my main purpose of this trip is not really to walk in parks nor go to temples..but some how, there seemed to be a lot of such places of interest on our iternary. I will very roughly go through these places if possible.
All these gardens look more or less the same to me..
Anyway, we did take a stroll along the riverside..the weather is pretty cool..
The following few pictures are from some of the scenes I saw during the trip..see if there are any that may be of interest to you.
I shall take a break here while I upload the rest of the photos. Do look out for part 2 and 3 of this series.
